SpringWidgets Is A Great Way To Syndicate RSS Content on Your Blog
I noticed SpringWidgets a long time ago and have been meaning to write a post about it. Over the last year, I have experimented with many ways towards syndicating RSS content on my blogs. There are pros and cons to doing this and one of the things that I noticed the most in doing so was that it took away from my ability to get my own content indexed.
For most of all my purposely, I used a program call MagPiesRSS. This program is very difficult to use for the average skilled blogger. It isn’t very widely supported and it doesn’t seem to be updated too often. All in all, the program is tricky to use.
Secondly, in using the program, by default the content and links are visible to search engines, which used improperly or not made rel=”nofollow” can really put a damper on how quickly your own content gets indexed.
As I mentioned, I found a program called SpringWidgets. This program is really cool and is packed full of some amazing features that will bring out some really cool extras to provide you blog readers.
I did a very short and sweet PDF write up about SpringWidgets. Take a read and then drop a comment here and share your thoughts. Feel free to download and distribute the PDF document with your own blog readers and friends.
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Now this looks like a really interesting thing to be using, I’ve been meaning to do more with RSS feeds for a while and will take a look at this in more detail.
On the subject of RSS feeds – is there anyway that you can write posts on your blog, but exclude them from your RSS feed? I’m thinking in the sense of writing content aimed more towards search engine visitors rather than regular readers?
Thanks!
I agree with the fact that it should be better to put a nofollow into the links of syndacated content on your blog, but why don’t let the content be indexed by the search engines ?
For me it’s the main reason why I add them. My goal is it to have more relevant content on my site, not to have another link through which the reader could find the way out from my blog.
ciao
alex
Hi Alex,
I am learning that if you provide a hub for excellent information people will keep coming back to you as they begin to trust that your site is a source for external information. Consider Yahoo, they are a portal… people go to Yahoo because they are a hub for information.
Regarding allowing search engine to make a record of other people’s content on your own site, I think it is possible that that could lead to trouble. (dup content) and not to mention angry publishers if you begin to outrank them for the same search terms.
We have to make the distinction (as you did in a past post) between “social blogs” and “Search Engine” (i call them MadeForAdsense) blogs.
In a former one I would not (or at least in a small way) use syndacted content, in the latter case I use them to get the attention of the search engines because they add relevant and fresh content. In that type of blogs I don’t focus on returning readers.
Beware that i syndacate only post titles and excerpts, not entire posts. On this way, IMO, dup content and angry publishers are not a problem.
ciao
alex
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