does a rss feed with a PHP scrip make your site more search engine friendly? if so how may i add one to my site?
His question was "does it make the site more SEO friendly". The answer is no. SEO friendly refers only to how accessible a site is to a spider. As long as you linked internally to all content from your site, an RSS feed will not improve upon that. And as for "RSS feeds play a huge roll in today's SEO", what utter tripe. Yes, they can be used effectively to gain more links, increase site visibility and keep a site fresh. But "they play a HUGE roll" is a bit of an overstatement. They can help but it has to be done under the right circumstances. It's not good for every website. Perhaps they play a huge roll in your SEO, but they certainly don't for me, it's just one of many things that I implement when appropiate.
The answer is YES. The more power you have to bring back those spiders and to make them index your content up higher, the best. Rss feeds are in fact Seo friendly. It is a huge part of the game. Period. If you want to discuss this let's promote a race: i'll start with a WP blog (rss on) and you' start with a html site, no rss feed. Then we'll see witch one gets up there longer, not faster (witch Wp will get also). That's Seo friendly, weirdo! Really? Care to elaborate? Bet your rankings are great without Rss feeds. Congrats on that...
Since when did more frequent crawling promote a site to a better rank. If you happen to create some new content and it gets a good ranking, it will be because of the links generated to it. the fact it gets crawled more often has nothing to do with it. I never said an RSS feed wasn't SEO friendly. An RSS feed in itself is indeed SEO friendly, but it will not make a site that already utilises a good internal linking structure any more accessible to SE's. As for your race, in this instance I would use RSS as you're constantly updating your content and it makes it easier for readers to subscribe to your content. If I were creating a blog I'd be updating with good content on a regular basis, therefore an RSS feed would benefit me as my content will be picked up on by RSS aggregators and there's a fair chance the content will be republished with my link in it. No it's not, SEO friendly or more accurately SE friendly concerns only how 'friendly' your website is to a crawler, i.e: no frames, broken links or ophaned pages. How about a poor ecommerce site that does not update with interesting content, it simply updates with new products. The RSS feed will be interesting to no one, will be unlikely to be picked up and republished by autogen sites because the content wouldn't contain many keyword. I just told someone in this situation not to spend £150 on implementing an RSS feed. There's just no point, no return on his investment, no increase in rankings, no "loyal" readers. He would have acheived no monetary gains. The only way RSS may have helped is if he were distributing a feed to use by affiliates, but that wasn't his purpose. Therefore RSS is not good for every site. I didn't say it can be bad, but it's not always "good". I'm perfectly rooted in my knowledge, I know the advantages and disadvantages of RSS and when and how to implement, it isn't good for every case. I have ranked well for several key terms. I think you ought to apologise for your flippant remark.
Not many to discuss the sheet with you, but: Say what? Joking, right? RSS feeds have many potentials, not only readers, but i'll leave that for you to find out sooner or later. Sure, why not? Same as bove ^^. Same as above ^^. Wrong again, but guess you have time to discover that by yourself. Get your point there. I don't understand it in this context, but i get it. Good for you man, but when you tell a newbie he doesn't need RSS Feeds to develop a Search Engine friendly site, guess you're the one who needs to apologize.
Please enlighten me to all these things that I will "discover"? If you say I have things to discover then you must be able to back that claim. You've asked me to back my statements and I have, now it's your turn. Seems you are more interested in defending your pride than admitting you were wrong on many counts. Unless I am to take that is your sarcastic way of saying, "sorry, you've backed your statement well and contarary to before I agree with you and actually realise you know what you're taking about"
Man, you have answered that RSS feeds were ineffective for SEO friendly. Then you stated that after all they are effective. Then i asked you to do a race with 2 different sites, but hey, after all you will need RSS feeds too! So, what do you need me to tell you? That you're wrong and time will prove it to you? Jesus... Not defending my pride here (lol, internet pride?), but has i said before, you're the one that needs some clarification before you shout out loud to a newbie that he doesn't need RSS feeds at his site. Period. if you don't need them, good for you i don't give a fuck about it.
You quote me inaccurately, you take what I say and decide to give it a meaning that was never purported in the first place. My biggest gripe is that you say "RSS plays a HUGE role in today's SEO" as if you're trying to market the idea to everyone and as if you speak for the entire industry. It sounds like you're just coughing up some line you heard or read from some other guru without validating it for yourself. But anyway, I'm not going to bother with this any longer. We'll simply have to agree to disagree.