RSS: Challenges that every Blogger or Webmaster Face
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| Millions of websites are competing for the top few spots in Google’s results. | You need lots content relevant to your target keywords to ensure that Google considers your site highly relevant. | Spend lots of time writing content or pay someone else to do it. | Display RSS feeds on your site using CaRP. Find thousands of feeds in over 200 categories in this RSS feed directory. |
| Regularly updated pages come up higher in search results, so you need fresh content regularly. | Spend lots of time writing fresh content regularly or pay someone else to do it. | Display RSS feeds on your site using CaRP. They update automatically. | |
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“I’ve made a small $15 donation which I hope will contribute to your further development of CaRP. It is a great thing.” Cristina Marcu – London,
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| Not everyone buys they first time they visit your site. If they don’t return, your efforts to get them there are wasted. | You need fresh, relevant content regularly to bring people back. | Spend lots of time writing fresh content regularly or pay someone else to do it. | Display RSS feeds on your site using CaRP. They update automatically. |
| When you add new pages to your website, you have to wait a while for Google to find them and add them to their database. | Since Google spiders frequently updated websites more often than those that update rarely, you need fresh content regularly. | Spend lots of time writing fresh content regularly or pay someone else to do it. | Display RSS feeds on your site using CaRP. |
| Google doesn’t look at the JavaScript feeds that some sites publish, so putting them on your site doesn’t help with SEO. | You need the contents of the feeds to be embedded into your webpage source. | Copy and paste the contents of the feed into your page at least daily. | Display RSS feeds on your site using CaRP. The feed contents can be embedded into webpages that use PHP (.php) or SSI (.shtml), and in many cases, even regular “.htm” or “.html” pages. |
| You only have 24 hours in a day. | The number of webpages you can manually update on a regular basis is limited. | Hire people to write content for you. | Display RSS feeds on your site using CaRP. Since they update automatically, you can have as many active pages as you can find feeds. |
| You need a break every once in a while. | You can’t manually keep your webpages fresh all the time. | Hire people to post content for you when you’re not doing
it yourself. |
Display RSS feeds on your site using CaRP. It works 24 hours a day, 365 days a year (366 in leap year! lol ) |
| Many RSS parsers slow your site down by fetching the feed every time someone views your webpage. |
You need the feed to be cached on your site. | Copy and paste the feed to your site at least daily, and have the RSS parser display if from there. | Display the RSS feed using CaRP. It automatically caches the feed for you, refreshing its cache how ever often you want it to. |
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“That works perfectly. I love this man. My donation is on the way.” Ben Hanten – Yankton,
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| Most RSS parsers have limited formatting options. | You want a way to make the feed match the look and feel of your website. | Redesign your site to match the look and feel of the feed. | Display the RSS feed using CaRP. It offers reasonable default formatting, but also gives you complete customizability. |
| Some RSS parsers cost nearly US$100.00. | You need an affordable alternative. | Use a low quality, difficult to use, impossible to customize free parser, or write your own. | Use CaRP, which comes in both free and commercial versions priced starting at just $47. Even the free version supports all the basic functionality you need, with complete customizability. |
| CaRP runs on your self-hosted website! | Download CaRP | ||
What the heck are RSS anyway?
RSS feeds usually show the links within your site/blog, and also a summary of each blog post. It’s like a link page that usually shows up on people’s feed-reader pages without having any need for people to opt-in or subscribe to your blog (no more bouncing of “invalid email address” for webmasters and bloggers; no more spam scare for blog/site visitors).
Rss feeds do not appear as “normal web pages” unless read through an RSS feed reader/app. There are also many free RSS Feed readers that you can add into your current internet browser. Firefox is what I use. Some people have recommended a social media internet browser – Flock.
If you use wordpress (free blogging and cms platform), RSS feeds are churned out automatically for you at http://www.yoursite.com/feeds.
If you’re looking for more info on how to
+ add your feed to into your site/blog so other can subscribe to your feeds
+ format and change the look of your site/blog feeds
+ add your feeds into an RSS directory (so others can also find you)
+ grab other webmasters’ RSS feeds (from category/topic of your choice) into your site for “automatically-updated content” then you may find the above tabulated info useful (comes with training manual/pdf ebook etc and has a free rss parser script which you can install into your own self-hosted website)
Tip: Find RSS Feeds in your TOPICs and add them to your site or blog for free! Visit Chordata and Bloggeries! I recommend you add these feeds between blog posts or in your blog’s sidebar. Auto-updated content!
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This is really true especially if you are a newbie and even an aged blogger.
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admin Reply:
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:57 am
Thank you Byajero!
Aged blogger? You mean a matured blogger?
Actually I don’t know which is worser! >,<
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