Hybrid static site with RSS/blog features

DavidO · 04-18-2009, 05:12 AM

I've been wanting to get in on the advantages of dynamic content and RSS. So I was going to start a WP blog but I've got my hands more than full with a growing website, product creation and all that goes with it. I think I'd be overstretched doing a blog and I don't want to do something unless I can do it well.

I'm starting to update my website more frequently and I had the idea: why not add blog features and RSS to it? What I mean by RSS is create feeds OF MY SITE, not display RSS from other sites.

I write a lot of medium to long articles but that's not often enough. How about a new page on my site with frequent mini-articles, sort of like blog posts, that I could feed on RSS. I could also add news items from my niche, customer feedback and other fresh content.

Does this sound practical and effective? It seems like Google and the others would love it but I'd only have to create and manage a new page rather than an entire blog.

Is anyone else doing this? I'd appreciate any suggestions!

Aaron Riddell · 04-18-2009, 05:20 AM

Hi,

A neat feature that you may wish to consider is adding a "widget". You could add a Twitter "widget" and have a live feed of your Tweets coming through to your Blog/Website.

Have fun.

Aaron Riddell

Lloyd Buchinski · 04-18-2009, 06:37 AM

Yes it is done and there actually are threads in the forum about it but I'm not sure how you would separate them from all the other rss threads. You can code an xml sheet yourself and there is less to it than to html. A good source of info for this is Howto Create an RSS 2.0 Feed

Cosmokid was posting about this about a year or 2 ago and her posts first got me interested, although I haven't done it yet. A thread mentioned a wso of hers dealing with that. It was awhile ago but I think it is still available.

A couple of people have mentioned in threads that it doesn't get you a lot of traffic but does help your site stature. (Pagerank maybe? Can't remember.) So mostly because of that it slipped down the to do list a bit.

But it is quite common and if you add an rss feed to an html site, the site will start showing up in blog search results as if it is a blog.

But on the whole it seems like it would be a lot more work than doing it with a blog. A lot of blogs do not get posts added every day, or even every month and some of them are just considered finished sites after a few pages are set up, if that is the part of blog work that you are worried about.

best wishes, lloyd
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04-18-2009, 05:12 AM	#1
DavidO Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: United Kingdom, Spain Posts: 2,031 Thanks: 10 Thanked 101 Times in 58 Posts	Hybrid static site with RSS/blog features I've been wanting to get in on the advantages of dynamic content and RSS. So I was going to start a WP blog but I've got my hands more than full with a growing website, product creation and all that goes with it. I think I'd be overstretched doing a blog and I don't want to do something unless I can do it well. I'm starting to update my website more frequently and I had the idea: why not add blog features and RSS to it? What I mean by RSS is create feeds OF MY SITE, not display RSS from other sites. I write a lot of medium to long articles but that's not often enough. How about a new page on my site with frequent mini-articles, sort of like blog posts, that I could feed on RSS. I could also add news items from my niche, customer feedback and other fresh content. Does this sound practical and effective? It seems like Google and the others would love it but I'd only have to create and manage a new page rather than an entire blog. Is anyone else doing this? I'd appreciate any suggestions!

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Aaron Riddell Passionate About Life! Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Wellington, New Zealand Posts: 70 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Hybrid static site with RSS/blog features Hi, A neat feature that you may wish to consider is adding a "widget". You could add a Twitter "widget" and have a live feed of your Tweets coming through to your Blog/Website. Have fun. Aaron Riddell
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Lloyd Buchinski copy and paste geek War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Calgary Posts: 1,390 Thanks: 68 Thanked 168 Times in 140 Posts	Re: Hybrid static site with RSS/blog features Yes it is done and there actually are threads in the forum about it but I'm not sure how you would separate them from all the other rss threads. You can code an xml sheet yourself and there is less to it than to html. A good source of info for this is Howto Create an RSS 2.0 Feed Cosmokid was posting about this about a year or 2 ago and her posts first got me interested, although I haven't done it yet. A thread mentioned a wso of hers dealing with that. It was awhile ago but I think it is still available. A couple of people have mentioned in threads that it doesn't get you a lot of traffic but does help your site stature. (Pagerank maybe? Can't remember.) So mostly because of that it slipped down the to do list a bit. But it is quite common and if you add an rss feed to an html site, the site will start showing up in blog search results as if it is a blog. But on the whole it seems like it would be a lot more work than doing it with a blog. A lot of blogs do not get posts added every day, or even every month and some of them are just considered finished sites after a few pages are set up, if that is the part of blog work that you are worried about. best wishes, lloyd .......__o .......\<, ....( )/ ( )...
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