automatically updating date on rss feeds any advantage?

Discussion in 'XML & RSS' started by misha7878, Jan 24, 2011.

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    I have a static website - THIS WEBSITE NEVER HAS ANY CONTENT CHANGE

    my question is i want to make a rss.xml file - (basically an rss feed)

    there is a part like this

    <item>
    <title>Baseball title</title>
    <description>A page about baseball.</description>
    <link>hxxp://baseball.com/story.php</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">1</guid>
    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2011 09:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
    </item>

    now the pubDate would be todays date

    but lets say a month the down the road I would change the date to
    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2011 09:00:00 -0500</pubDate>

    making the feed seem more current than it is. again the page never ever changes.

    Is this a good idea, since the rss feed agregators are going to think that the page is more current and rank it higher. Will they pick it up as spam since nothing really changed on the page.?
     
    misha7878, Jan 24, 2011 IP