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Should I create and name my RSS Feeds like this?

by jimmy506
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I just started making feeds for a small eCommerce site. Can anyone tell me if you think this is a good approach?

I have several categories of products. One is "Home and Kitchen" (which is the site's category title).
I made an rss feed called: home-and-kitchen.rss

I will do the same with my other categories.

Does this make good SEO sense?
...and is it ok to name your feed something like toys.rss or bath-stuff.rss?

Thanks,
Jimmy
#create #feeds #rss
  • Profile picture of the author jimmy506
    Or is a feed just suppose to be called feed.rss ?
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    You can call your RSS feed anything you like.

    It's a good idea to have a main feed and optionally have separate feeds for each of your categories.
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    • Profile picture of the author jimmy506
      Thanks Peter!
      I was a bit worried because each category has 15 to 20 products. It just made sense to me to create a feed for each one (like hand-puppets.rss) ... only, I didn't know if that was a good thing to do.


      Originally Posted by UMS View Post

      You can call your RSS feed anything you like.

      It's a good idea to have a main feed and optionally have separate feeds for each of your categories.
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    • Profile picture of the author jimmy506
      I'm also looking for a list of the best places to submit my rss feeds to- if anyone knows.
      I would rather have 10 good ones than 100 questionable ones?
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  • Profile picture of the author linkvana
    The real money in submitting feeds for ecommerce sites is submitting them to the big shopping feed aggregators.

    There are 3 categories for feeds on ecommerce sites.

    Free Ones: GoogleBase, Bing, TheFind

    PPC: Nextag, PriceGrabber, Shopzilla

    Percentage: Amazon, Ebay, NewEgg, Buy.com

    The free ones should obviously be on the top of your list. The percentage based ones will probably send the most sales of any of them but the integration is a bit more complicated. I have seen campaigns bled dry by using the PPC feeds as they all start around .50 per click. I'd say invest in those only if you know you have rock solid conversions.
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    • Profile picture of the author jimmy506
      Thanks very much for that linkvana!
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