No-brainer SEO Technique

Many people use article directories, like ours, to find subject matter content that they can use on their site. Like everybody else, you've probably heard a million pros talking about how you're missing both the content and SEO boat if you're not using RSS. The bigger issue is that you haven't the first idea how. Typical of most hot topics, there is RSS information overload. We're going to, in SIMPLE TERMS, walk you through why and how to use RSS, and the content on this site, to improve your Search Engine Optimization.

RSS can provide your site with tremendous SEO benefits...if you do it right! RSS can fill your site with updated, fresh and content specific "spider food" for the search engine bots. This not only brings the bots back to your site more often but, they like what they see.

One thing that you need to be aware of is the TYPE of RSS feed you setup for your site. There are a lot of "RSS Feed Wizards" out there that create a line of Javascript to cut and paste on your site and Voila! you have an RSS feed. While this will, in the end, put an RSS feed on your site, search engines can not read Javascript so this will not provide any SEO benefits whatsoever. If you want a true SEO benefit from RSS, Javascript will not get it done. We found a tool to get you an RSS feed, with ALL the SEO benefits. Because this is not a Javascript Wizard we talked about earlier, it takes a couple extra steps...but is well worth the extra effort. By the way, this is all FREE and we are in no way affiliated with these guys...we just know how well it works.

There is a free download out there called RSS2HTML. Follow these 4 easy steps to get RSS up and running:

1) Go to RSS2HTML Site and click "download now" under Option 2.

2) Download the freeware (2 files- a php file and a template file)

2) Upload the two files to your web host.

3) Create a link for a full page of RSS feed info or tweak two lines in the php file to be able to place the RSS feed into a specific spot in an existing page.

Both the article (which took the bulk of his info from the site) and the documentation on the site itself handhold you through the steps and the tweaks to make to the code.

I put a feed on my homepage today in about an hour, which is probably about 45 minutes longer than it would take most of you. I hope some others finally get over the RSS hurdle too.