Plugin for Pulling in Feeds From Other Sites?

[Seekness]

I know there's stuff like Caffeinated Content out there that'll populate pages with Yahoo Answers data, youtube videos, etc., but I was wondering if there's any kind of free plugin or some kind of approach that could basically pull in the content directly from the RSS feeds of sites of mine. It'd be ideal if this worked on blogger or wordpress sites.

Any help is very much appreciated.

[paulgl]

Someone may school me on this, but...

There is really no reason to pull rss feeds. They are some
type of script (javascript) and are not seen by google.
It is virtually impossible without being an expert in php
programming to pull it in and it be seen.

There are a gazillion plugins,Widgets, and scripts to pull rss feeds.
But again, that's all they do. Unless you are just doing
it for information purposes, there is no reason.

Concentrate on fresh, unique, and useful content in text/html.

Paul

[helptobiz]

sure is just a run a google on wp-o-matic wordpress plugin it should do the job.

[Seekness]

Interesting - but if that's the case, then what's the point of submitting any RSS feeds to directories? And RSSbot, and all the other directory submission software? I thought it was all about the increased likelihood that google finds your content quickly, not to mention some backlinks since the title of your post is in the anchor text of anyone pulling in the feed.

The whole idea here would be to get a few blogs posting my content (from other sites) automatically, to cut out some of the manual work involved in posting them to the same blogs anyway.

Originally Posted by paulgl

Someone may school me on this, but...

There is really no reason to pull rss feeds. They are some
type of script (javascript) and are not seen by google.
It is virtually impossible without being an expert in php
programming to pull it in and it be seen.

There are a gazillion plugins,Widgets, and scripts to pull rss feeds.
But again, that's all they do. Unless you are just doing
it for information purposes, there is no reason.

Concentrate on fresh, unique, and useful content in text/html.

Paul

[kkchoon]

You send your feed to RSS directories to gain exposure and backlinks.

There are many spammer and auto blog people who use RSS feeds in their site, you gain a backlink to your site whenever they post your feed.

High PR RSS directories get indexed very fast, and it helped your site get index as well.

You can use RSS feed to get some latest news, blog post that are closely related to your keyword, and discover all kinds of nice long tail keywords that bring you great traffic.

[paulgl]

Originally Posted by kkchoon

You send your feed to RSS directories to gain exposure and backlinks.

You get exposure, but not sure about a backlink. I can't see how an rss feed is
considered a backlink or even seen as such.

With emphasis on "You send your feed..." Not you getting feed.

As stated, unless you are an expert programmer, you will need a 3rd
party reader or plugin for the rss feed. There would be nothing resembling
a backlink in the code or reader. The backlink would go to the 3rd party
reader, widget, or service.

Unless you are talking about putting a link to your rss feed page generated
by your blog. This would be a backlink, but it would not show the feed on the
page linking to it. They would have to click on the link to view the content.

But if the question is, putting an rss feed on your page (or someone else's)
and having it converted to html/text seen by google, would be dang near
impossible for anyone except an expert programmer. You might put
your rss feed page from your blog in an iframe, but not sure how google
handles iframe content.


Paul

[Seekness]

Paul,

Thanks for the reply. I'm just talking about pulling the feed into blog posts on a site, so that the backlink shows on a page generated by the blog - not through a feed reader. Guess I wasn't clear enough with my question.

[paulgl]

Originally Posted by dandee0014

Paul,
Thanks for the reply. I'm just talking about pulling the feed into blog posts on a site,
so that the backlink shows on a page generated by the blog - not through a feed
reader. Guess I wasn't clear enough with my question.

You need a reader, feeder, widget, plugin, internal blog script, whatever you want to call it to
show it. The link would show to viewers, but not show as a true backlink.
Search engines wouldn't see it. If you really want to give them a true backlink,
add a link/text directing them to the post or blog.

Paul

[Jason Dolman]

As mentioned earlier, WP-o-Matic is a Wordpress plugin that will do exactly what you're looking for... pull in RSS feeds and display them on your blog.

WordPress › WP-o-Matic WordPress Plugins


Jason

[InternetMarketingIQ]

lots of misinformation here.

wp-0-matic is not up to date. A lot of people talk about it but they have never used it.

Most RSS feeds you pull into your blog will be truncated... not full feeds. So before you look for the plugin find feeds you can actually use that make sense to your visitors.

And there are plugins to do this from full autoblog plugins to feeding a single category you set up for a specific purpose.

[txconx]

I use WP-O-Matic on a couple of my sites and it works very well if you take a few minutes to learn how it works.

As pointed out, if the RSS feed you've accessed is truncated, that's all you get on your site.

[Kurt]

Originally Posted by paulgl

You get exposure, but not sure about a backlink. I can't see how an rss feed is
considered a backlink or even seen as such.

With emphasis on "You send your feed..." Not you getting feed.

As stated, unless you are an expert programmer, you will need a 3rd
party reader or plugin for the rss feed. There would be nothing resembling
a backlink in the code or reader. The backlink would go to the 3rd party
reader, widget, or service.

Unless you are talking about putting a link to your rss feed page generated
by your blog. This would be a backlink, but it would not show the feed on the
page linking to it. They would have to click on the link to view the content.

But if the question is, putting an rss feed on your page (or someone else's)
and having it converted to html/text seen by google, would be dang near
impossible for anyone except an expert programmer. You might put
your rss feed page from your blog in an iframe, but not sure how google
handles iframe content.


Paul

Where to start...

Here's how you get links...You submit your RSS pheed to the RSS directories in the hopes some of your RSS "items" will be picked up and used by other sites, thereby creating links to your site(s). This may be the single most powerful link building strategy there is, if done correctly.

It's not "dang near impossible" to add RSS to pages. I sell two methods that are BOTH SEO friendly, one server side and one that works from your desktop, and have been doing so since 2002-2003.

There's plenty of other uses for RSS as well, such as adding all your own RSS pheeds from your blogs and web 2.0 sites and creating a "big" RSS pheed you can use to automatically cross link all your network. Make a post on Twitter and have it appear in in blog, email newsletter, etc.

And how would this "iframe" suggestion work? How do you get the RSS pheed into the page in the iframe?