ne of the most important site flagged as a spam site.
factors of getting your web However, you can set up a sidebar
site noticed by the search on your main site to display
engines is having lots of fresh headlines relevant to the topic
keyword-rich text content on your of your site next to your own
site. Getting this has never been original content, or you can
easier, thanks to RSS. RSS stands create a “news” section of your
for “Rich Site Summary,” and it site with 2-3 RSS feeds
is a way for site owners to displaying headlines, forum
syndicate their site content to threads, or blog entries on your
other sites, sharing headlines site topic.
and article extracts. Because it
is so easy to set up, RSS is To display RSS feeds on your
often referred to as “Real Simple site, you will have to install
Syndication.” software to your server and
convert the pages where you would
RSS feeds provide a simple way to like to place the feeds to PHP.
add keyword-rich content to your Don't worry-this is far easier
site that automatically updates than it sounds. The “Lesson
itself on a weekly or even daily Resources” section below includes
basis. You can easily add an RSS information on a free and easy to
feed to your site that will use tool that will allow you to
continue to provide fresh content display feeds, as well as several
for as long as you keep it there, sites where you can start looking
and this kind of dynamic, for relevant feeds.
keyword-rich content will get
your site noticed by the search To display RSS feeds on your
engines. You would not want to site, you will need to convert
create a site with nothing but the pages where you will place
RSS feeds, as this will get your the feeds to PHP. In popular HTML
editors such as Dreamweaver, you Carp will give you a short piece
can do this simply by changing of code to paste into your PHP
the “.html” file extension to page. This includes a placeholder
“.php”. It is possible to display RSS feed URL.
RSS feeds as Java scripts within
HTML pages, but you should avoid Now that your site is ready to
this as search engines can not display RSS feeds, you will need
currently read Java scripts. to find some feeds relevant to
Although the Java scripts will your site. When you find the
display for human visitors, for feeds you want to use, you simply
the search engines it will be as need to copy the URL and use it
if they don't exist. to replace the placeholder feed
URL created by Carp. The
Once you have converted the following sources will help you
necessary pages to PHP, you will search the quickly growing number
need to get software that will of feeds that are out there for
allow you to display the feeds. the asking.
Gecko Tribe offers a very easy to
use RSS to HTML converter called RSS Feed Search Engines
Carp (). They offer a free
version that displays a small ad You can search for relevant RSS
(“Newsfeed displayed by Carp”) feeds by going to this search
under each feed you ad to your engines and doing searches
site. There is also a paid
version which has more powerful Bloglines ()
features and doesn't include an BlogPulse ()
ad. Follow their very simple Findory Blog Search ()
instructions to install the Gigablast Blog Search ()
software to your site server. At IceRocket Blog Search
the end of the set up process, (http://www.icerocket.com/?tab=bl
og) google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
Feedster ()
Technorati () google_color_link =
"0000FF";
type="text/javascript">
google_ad_height = 15;
google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al"; type="text/javascript"
google_ad_channel =
"3545651507"; src="http://pagead2.googlesyndica
tion.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
google_color_border =
"FFFFFF";
About the Author:
John Case is the author of the Complete SEO Training Course (http://www.complete-seo-training.com/) and maintains an experimental advertising site at http://www.awordsworth1000pictures.com/
