Does putting RSS affect the rakning.....

hi plz tell me Does putting RSS feed affect the site rakning.....and where i have to put rss feed

 

Hi rahulm,

Including an RSS feed on your website can indeed help your ranking in the SERPs, and is a good way to rotate fresh content to your pages on a regular basis. The key is to have your RSS feed be only one part of your content, and to offer unique, updated content in other areas of your pages, as well. I don't think the location of the RSS feed on your pages makes much difference, so you should focus on placing it somewhere that makes sense, based on your page layout.

Best of luck.

Sam

 

i have heard it bad for webpages...

lets say you put rss with 10 outbound kinks to the owner of rss feed...

rss content will benefit RSS owner and bring to him PR, meanwhile you loose your PR.

dont you think so?

 

yeah thats true, but that is PR. Having RSS on your site will help serp's

 

Yep - PR and SERPs are two different animals. From a SERPs perspective, the outbound links will only be present for a short period of time, and it's doubtful that they would have any effect on ranking.

Sam

 

Is this what SERP stands for:

Short for search engine results page, the Web page that a search engine returns with the results of its search. The major search engines typically display three kinds of listings on their SERPs. Listings that have been indexed by the search engine’s spider, listings that have been indexed into the search engine’s directory by a human, and listings that are paid to be listed by the search engine.

 

Yep, that's it. A very thorough and detailed definition, as well.

Sam

 

you can also add a "no follow" attribute on the href of your rss feeds to prevent pagarank drained..

 

i thought that the original poster meant having his own rss feeds? not getting them from other places?

 

No follow is very helpfull. Now this makes me bring up something. How are you displaying your RSS feeds? I see that there are two options:

1. Javascript
2. Server side

While javascript is easy, it adds extra javascript code that some engines really hate. It is a good thing to have the js code in a separate file and then simply call the functions with a small bit of script within your html.

Server side works for me because there is no extra js code, just parsed HTML code fit for a king (search engine)

 

interesting topic guys,

I don't think a search engine can determine whether its RSS or no. I use ASP, I convert it and then display as content on my site, the source code that is given out to the Search Engine Bot does not contain any info except for the links, which can be also replaced with my own ones.

Links are changing daily. RSS is usefull both for me and the provider. I have news on my site, they receive extra hits from people who are interested in their publications

thats my opinion

 

yeap, but sarch engines can see duplicate content.... that i was talking about... too many people use the same RSS...

 

RSS feeds are typically very dynamic, i.e. changing constantly, and in addition are usually only posted as "snippets", rather than as a full article - so I doubt they're likely to be treated as duplicate content. Just my opinion, but I wouldn't be overly concerned about drawing a duplicate content penalty for using RSS feeds.

Sam

 

I agree. I see no dup content penalty from publishing rss, just daily updated content