RSS feeds issue

[Randall]

Now I can understand that many people do use RSS feeds for showing as content on their own website.

I am not at all against it. But let me show an example.

If I have a content rich articles site. Where articles are submitted and shown on regular basis.

Article site does provide RSS feeds from the categories which will sometimes fetch full articles or a summary of the article defined by the owner of the site.

This RSS feeds are just summary or complete text of those articles that are already published on that article site and if the RSS feed is just a copy of it which one is showing on his own website then wouldn't it put most of his pages into supplemental results? Wouldn't it be counted as a duplicate content of the original article site?

Would it be giving any benefits to the website which uses the RSS feeds? Except his site will have the content.

What are your thoughts on this.

Thanks.

 

[harrysmith]

RSS i.e Real simple syndication is a quite popular and easy way to distribute content via the Internet.
This is a cool way to inform people about your blog headlines and updates .
RSS is really helpful in making content more accessible

Please visit : http://blog.webhosting.uk.com/2006/10/10/making-the-most-of-rss/ for more information on RSS

 

[Randall]

:crying: Friend I am asking that is it useful if we are using it as content on our own site. I know it will surely be useful for the people who are distributing it as they will be getting the backlinks or traffic and much more exposure.

The question was that will it be useful for people to make sites using that RSS feeds? Wouldn't it be just duplicate content.

 

[nielsencl]

I think the idea of duplicate content is not completely understood. From what I have seen it is mostly when sites are duplicated that they are considered duplicates.

I also think in some cases if an entire page is duplicated that it is considered as such. But if a basic page is not a duplicate, then it becomes harder for the page to be called a duplicate.

In my tests, I can take content which is published and free for everyone to use and have it work well, even though many others are also using it.

The secret? I optimize the page my own way. If you use an article or press release, don't use the same title for your title tag. That would be a red flag for duplicated content. Change the title to make it more interesting or contain more keywords.

For RSS it works because for the most part, you are taking samples from a number of pages and creating a new page. If you can combine more than one feed, this content can become even more "unique". The secret here is to ALSO have good title, description, and keywords tags.

Having said all that I do think that there are some filters for RSS feeds, since Google would not want thousands of pages all containing the same feeds from one site. So using a feed aggrigator or using some programming to mix up the feed should help things work better.

 

[harrysmith]

:crying: Friend I am asking that is it useful if we are using it as content on our own site. I know it will surely be useful for the people who are distributing it as they will be getting the backlinks or traffic and much more exposure.

The question was that will it be useful for people to make sites using that RSS feeds? Wouldn't it be just duplicate content.

RSS feeds may be useful for your site but Pages of such sites may get index as supplemental results

**** Post of " nielsencl " is really a helpful post in this regards.***