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April 7th, 2005, 10:48 AM

Tojan

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RSS feeds -always fresh content

Hi

SEs love fresh contnet so I've decided to use RSS on my website. Although I've read a lot Im still struggling with it.
It would be really nice to have fresh (relevant) stuff that would be parsed daily and the news would be selected by using keywords.

Does anyone know any free parsers that would do that?
Parser with keyword selection would be really cool.

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April 7th, 2005, 12:23 PM

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i just implemented RSS on our criminal defense site and our zyprexa site... so far it's been working out great.

not sure about the parsers though... i just picked a relevant feed for the site, and played around with it for about a week.. some of the feeds update daily, while others don't update for weeks... it's a gamble

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April 7th, 2005, 12:28 PM

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I've found really nice&short script, but I need something more sophisticated.

If you want there is the script (really easy):

Quote:

<?

#############################################
# This is rdf-parse.inc, which parses RDF #
# files and outputs links to their ITEMs #
# #
# Optionally, it can also print HTML for #
# the IMAGE and CHANNEL bits of the XML. #
# Just uncomment those lines in endElement #
# and put in appropriate HTML. #
# #
# Usage: #
# parseRDF("filename") in the bottom #
# note: "filename" can be a URL #
# #
# Requires: #
# PHP 4 compiled with "--use-xml" #
# #
# Creates: #
# Global variables $_depth, $_tags, and #
# $_item #
# #
# History: #
# v0.6b - fr3nd notified me of a party- #
# crashing feature of expat that #
# didn't parse stuff like & #
# properly. Fixed. Also fixed #
# initArray(), which didn't #
# do anything at all. #
# v0.61b- fixed a missing ) on line 46 #
#############################################

$_item = array();
$_depth = array();
$_tags = array( "dummy" );
# "dummy" prevents unecessary subtraction in the $_depth indexes

function initArray() {
global $_item;

$_item = array ("TITLE"=>"", "LINK"=>"", "DESCRIPTION"=>"", "URL"=>"" );
}

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
global $_depth, $_tags, $_item;

if ( ($name=="ITEM")||($name=="CHANNEL")||($name=="IMAGE") ) {
initArray();
}
$_depth[$parser]++;
array_push($_tags, $name);
}

function endElement($parser, $name) {
global $_depth, $_tags, $_item;

array_pop($_tags);
$_depth[$parser]--;
switch ($name) {
case "ITEM":
echo "<P><A HREF=\"$_item[LINK]\">$_item[TITLE]</A><br>$_item[DESCRIPTION]</P>\n";
initArray();
break;

case "IMAGE":
# echo "<A HREF=\"$_item[LINK]\"><IMG SRC=\"$_item[URL]\" ALT=\"$_item[TITLE]\" BORDER=0></A>\n<BR>\n";
initArray();
break;

case "CHANNEL":
# echo "<h3>$_item[TITLE]</h3>\n";
initArray();
break;
}
}

function parseData($parser, $text) {
global $_depth, $_tags, $_item;

$crap = preg_replace("/\s/", "", $text);
# is the data just whitespace?
# if so, we don't want it!

if ($crap) {
$text = preg_replace("/^\s+/", "", $text);
# get rid of leading whitespace
if ( $_item[$_tags[$_depth[$parser]]] ) {
$_item[$_tags[$_depth[$parser]]] .= $text;
} else {
$_item[$_tags[$_depth[$parser]]] = $text;
}
}
}

function parseRDF($file) {
global $_depth, $_tags, $_item;

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
initArray();

# Set up event handlers
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "parseData");

# Open up the file
$fp = fopen($file, "r") or die( "Could not open $file for input");

while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) {
die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
}
}

fclose( $fp );
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
}
parseRDF("input some xml here");

?>

April 7th, 2005, 12:32 PM

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Check out MagpieRss, it is free and works great

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April 7th, 2005, 02:13 PM

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try carp rss...easy to install and is in html format

April 7th, 2005, 02:28 PM

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G man uses carp a lot but i can never figure out how to use them.

Does anyone have a link to an rss tutorial that will tell me how to install it and what features i can get out of it.
I can find a few but i want someone more experienced with rss to point me in the direction of one.

April 7th, 2005, 02:31 PM

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i had a problem trying to install other rss display scripts...carp was very easy and has a cgi script which does the install for you, couldnt be easier

April 7th, 2005, 02:40 PM

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I've seen that you have to pay for carp. For me keyword selection is essential.
Does anyone know if any parser can do that?
I know that some desktop parsers can do that (like Jate).

April 7th, 2005, 03:04 PM

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magpierss is good stuff.

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April 8th, 2005, 08:19 PM

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ditto on the magpie rss recommendation

here is an implementation I used for one of the sites I manage
http://recoverythroughsupport [dot] com/rss/

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April 10th, 2005, 09:55 AM

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I was looking for good script use RSS feed, seems most of the 'good script' place javascript in the page to deliver the content. So seems not much help for SEO, but for visitors.

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April 10th, 2005, 12:58 PM

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You mention RSS as it gives fresh content

Sorry to ruin the party, but does RSS really work? As Google seems to like new pages with the fresh content in, does RSS produce new pages with the content or just new content on an old page?

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April 10th, 2005, 02:13 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zanet

You can use various RSS feeds to change the content of a page each time a bot comes around. Good for 'freshness' as anyone can see. Each time it visits, it thinks, "this page has changed, ill take a closer look" and so on for each page (in theory anyway).

Also, with a nice bit of coding, its easy to create literally thousands of new pages based on peoples feeds by using data from syndic8 etc. Not sure why anyone would want this tho unless they are up to no good.

To summarise, targeted (i.e. about the subject of the page) RSS feeds on your site, by way of magpie are a very good way to help your site to get promoted.

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April 10th, 2005, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by mick.sawyer

I do use carp on some of my sites but I'm starting to lean towards CBMaximizer because I can monetize more links on my sites.

Carp is pretty simple to use. There's also RSSEqualizer which I've used with some success.

Whatever you do, make sure the feed program you choose supports PHP. There's not much use in dropping javascript feeds onto a page because they're invisible to the SE.

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April 10th, 2005, 02:44 PM

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