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What a RSS feed?

by firescorpz
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Hi,

Anyone can explain what is a RSS feed and how it work with SEO?:confused:
#feed #rss
  • Profile picture of the author Rick88
    How the RSS feed works for SEO is that for an example you make a post to your blog and you have it set up with an RSS plugin that will take your new post and feed it into an RSS aggregator. The RSS aggregator is like a giant distribution center where your post is then made available to other blogs for instance. When the other blogs post your post on their blog than you in essence are credited with a link thus giving you link juice in Google's eyes and your ranking increases.

    This is an oversimplification of what you are asking but should give you a good idea of how this works and also why you would want to use this if you are doing SEO.

    You can google RSS feeds and RSS aggregators and there is good information on this forum as well.

    Hope that helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author Elliot Clark
    To understand it properly, register a free blog, add some posts and start using Google Reader
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    • Profile picture of the author HorseStall
      RSS is a standard format for syndicating content on the Internet. The content can be anything! Often information contained in an RSS feed is syndicated on other sites which expands its reach.

      Website visitors love RSS because they choose which feeds they wish to subscribe to, if at any point they are unhapy with the content contained in the RSS feed they simply unsubscribe and no longer receive notification of feed updates.

      RSS is really a win, win for both subscribers and publishers.

      In order to get a better understanding of how RSS works download an RSS reader or use a web aggregator and subscribe to an RSS feed (they are usually indicated by a small orange icon).

      More Information on RSS:
      RSS Specifications and RSS Feeds
      RSS Tools
      FeedForAll Newsletters and Articles
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  • Profile picture of the author hireava
    It provides summaries of web content in a simple format. It is available through an RSS feed reader, or through some browsers...its a method of pulling news from online publishers and posting it on your site, providing fresh content to your users.
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