Every other phpld has a rss feature where you can see RSS of each page of your directory. Iam just confused does it help the directory anyway in terms of traffic/serps/PR or anything. if not why is it used? Amit
You know what Amit, I disabled gaygle from touching the rss.php via the robots.txt file, and I strongly advise anyone else running a phpld directory to do the same. The rss is getting hammered and flagged as supplimental results. check on your sites to see which are and arent getting hit.
RSS always gets hammered, that's just the nature of it. But is it flagged as supplemental because it's being duplicated somewhere else? I know there are autoblogs out there that will basically take other site's RSS feeds and repackage them as their own content. From a human point of view, I'm not even sure who would want to view an RSS feed from a directory? I mean, a webmaster is mainly going to care about whether or not their own site has been added or rejected.
Not all sites show supplemental pages when using the site: command, how did you check for supplemental pages?
Yes, from what i've been seeing they are duplicates in category structure mainly. it seems that writing a unique description for each cat seems to keep them out. This has just been an observation and by no means a definitive answer.
Ive never seen the point in it specifically from a directory point of view - both my directories have it disabled and i also never design my phpLD templates with the RSS feed icon in mind...
I used the RSS feed from my Article Directories category to feed the submission list for Article Distributor. I also use the feeds for a couple of other things which result in over 45,000 hits to rss.php a month. I have plans for making the feed from pld a bit more detailed and robust as well, since it is a pretty basic feed. XML is just another database format that is more portable than SQL. Think outside the box.
Mmm my directory script doesnt offer RSS so i dont have to bother disabling it Haha, well i see no use for it either... a sitemap is what you need not a RSS feed.
Right, the sitemap. For Google. I think supplement results are more for duplicate meta tag penalty. It shouldn't matter if RSS used or not. I am not too sure how RSS function in PHPLD works. could be a bug?
I think RSS can be a great way of getting data for use elsewhere, or to show data that is being updated often, but I think the notion that it is more done as a "vogue" thing to do is also quite valid.
which is why in the indexscript directory script, you only have it for the latest sites added to the directory. i really don't see why you need it for each category or even as a sitemap (there is a real page as the sitemap).