rss feeds and content?

so rss feeds are supposed to be good for keeping your content fresh, but aren't they considered duplicate content?

 

I would say it depends on the level of duplication.. If your template is different enough/ you have other content on page those kinds of factors.

 

I'm of the "can't hurt" contingent.

 

I think they help immensely with dynamic sites. And as long as you have plenty of navigation and other content around them, I've never seen an issue with Google seeing the page as duplicate content.

 

Possibly the fact that many RSS feeds end up as hyperlinks helps too... i.e. G. can't really penalize people for having the same anchor text in a link, because that's how their ranking system works in the first place. (i.e. a 100 links to my site with 'real estate brokers' as the anchor = the site's a real estate broker, rank it highly!)

 

I didn't think they followed the RSS links because they were Javascript (or an Inline Frame sometimes) and no search engine follows Javascript.

I also think they penalize a site If every link is "Real Estate Investing" exactly. If you have too many links exactly like that they don't even consider the page for that keyword phrase.

 

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Stop cutting and pasting

 

i only include a link to the article in my RSS feed, no excerpts from it at all

 

You are losing out on a lot of the benefit then

 

"i only include a link to the article in my RSS feed, no excerpts from it at all"

and you have lost the opportunity to target an adsense ad.

 

I play with RSS syndication a lot...

I'm currently running a couple of test sites and should have a report together in the next month or two with the results...
Should be VERY interesting...

Watch this space

 

Yes, it indexes the source code. But it can't index the results, unless it runs a JS interpreter on every crawl it does, which would completely destroy its efficiency. i.e. if I write some JS that does something like:

document.write("<a href=\"" +
"http://" + myDomain + "/" +
myPath + "\">");
document.write("blue widgets");
document.write("</a>");

Google sure ain't gonna pass PR to the blue widgets site.

 

I use CarP Evolution for getting rss content. It really works. Basically it get news updates on a topic on my choice and aggregates them. The result, fresh relevant content on a daily basis and Google bot is a daily visitor. As for the links with carp you can put them in a javascript popup. Have a look at www.nokiaringtone.us/50_cent.php .I use carp for the Amazon feed and news at the bottom. It is really easy to use. All you do is add some code like
<?php
CarpConf('iorder',',url,title,author,source,desc');
CarpConf('biauthor','Source:<u> ');
CarpConf('aiauthor','</u><br />');
CarpConf('biurl','<a href="#" onClick="OpenNewsWindow(\'');
CarpConf('aiurl','\'); return false;">');
CarpConf('ailink','</a><br>');
CarpCacheShow('http://the_rss_url');
?>
to the page or pages you want. I have been using it fow 3 weeks now and my pages have been moving up in SERPS,Yahoo and MSN, except Google ... I'm still in the sandbox