External Sites Using Your Rss Feed

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26 September 2009, 7:35 am
harold

External Sites Using Your Rss Feed

Sometimes I read very good stories about trying to get other websites to use your RSS feed. The advantages I can think of are:

- Obtaining backlinks since every article in the feed contains a link to the full article on your website
- Making sure that all your articles are indexed by Google since google will automatically find links to the article through the websites that use your feed

However, I can also think of negative influence:

- Google regarding the many links obtained from the use of your feed used on many pages (also bad pages in the eyes of Google) as spammy
- Google thinking that there is duplicate content because the feed contains lines literally copied from your website
- Google indexing the part of the article that is duplicated on other sites, and indexing it even before it indexes your own website resulting in Google thinking that your website has copied the content rather than the other way around

I consider adding our RSS feed to sites like these: www.yatoo.ch

Here you can choose your categorie and add your feed in the appropriate category, is this a good idea?

If so, can I add to as many websites as I want or do I need to be careful with this?

Can you recommend some websites to add our rss feed to?

Many thanks!
26 September 2009, 8:05 am
Doolally

I think RSS is a great way to better your reputation and think that the search engines are clever enough to distinguish and give the rep to the RSS feed producer rather than the display site.
26 September 2009, 8:00 pm
Resonate

Duplicate content isnt really a problem as most RSS feeds generate excerpts with a permalink back to the main website.

Alot of backlinks are generated through RSS feeds along with link blogs using auto blogging software so all in all there a fantastic way to gain backlinks & traffic
26 September 2009, 9:54 pm
matted

If you are worried, then be sure you have a story or two that mentions your domain name. And also keep your stories truncated in the rss feed so the user has to click through to read the whole thing (on your site)
2 October 2009, 7:08 am
bbonline

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doolally

I think RSS is a great way to better your reputation and think that the search engines are clever enough to distinguish and give the rep to the RSS feed producer rather than the display site.

RSS Feeds help visitors to collect or directly view compiled article in a plain format. It is also a good way in which Google can read easily your sites or blogs content without any confusion.