RSS/XML Feeds to help improve SE ranking

What is all of your opinions on having RSS/XML Feeds displayed on your site? Would bringing realtive content that is always changing help out in the websites ranking? I was thinking about displaying different articles from different RSS Feeds on my site with only the most realtive ones being put on the site or just displaying the full RSS Feed from the one I think is most realtive on my site.

I would think that some searchers search for the latest content and such feeds could bring that to you page. If a search engine crawls your site and lists you for the the content. Then this would be a good thing correct?

What I am not sure is if searches engines can record the content, for example does the content only display when a browser requests but not a spider? Above my expertise level.

You need a Parser. There are many RSS parsers available for free on the internet. In order for the Search Engine to see the content of the feeds, you must have a server-side script such as Carp, Grouper or MagpieRSS.

Without the Parser all the spiders see is the code for the feed.

Matt

What if I told you that I had a program that would only deliver the most realitive content to your site or display and given rss/xml feed on your site in pure html form that spiders could easily index and you didn't have to do a think to keep it always updating / changing?

= cool

keep talking...

I'm all ears Brad... keep in mind I'm just a poor internet marketer.

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Yes, I wrote a program that grabs any xml feed, inserts into a mysql database, and then outputs feeds sorted by channel and by date. You can have as many channels as you like. Every six hours it makes a new grab of data. After a few months, you've got literally thousands of pages.

I think the trick is finding feeds where they don't mind you displaying their data on your website.

I have over 7,000 RSS/XML Feeds inserted into a database that. Each feed is archived for 7 days. Most feeds have 10 articles per a feed so that means there is approx 5 million articles in the database that you will be able to find the most realtive information. Then if you just like a person's feed you can give the program the feed url and it will read in the feed for you to display into a webpage. How does it insert it into your webpage? You create a page inside your site and then specify what tag you want to replace like #rsshere# and the program will grab your html on the page replace the tag with the articles you specify and then either email or ftp it into your site. The program in 99.99% done just a few more things to do before I will release it but I am trying to get a feed back on if this will be userful for everyone or if it will just be something I will use for my customers.

I have know idea what you just said, but I'm thinking it sounds like a good thing. Sign me up!

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If you would like to demo the software to help get the software running and find bugs then send me a message/email on this site because I do not want to violate the TERMS of this board and posting the URL to the site.

How do you get permission to use these RSS feeds on your site? Have you found feeds that allow you to store the data on your server and post as html?

What website would not want you to use there feed? Feeds are there to help promote the website... If you insert the feed into your page and someone finds the information informative then they will click on the link and goto the original website to read the entire article. As a website owner of many different sites I look for any extra traffic I am able to get no matter how I get the traffic. More traffic to the site helps bring in more income. If a website does not want you to grab there information to post all of the internet to help promote there site and bring more recipicle links to there site then
A. They are stupid
B. They should be offering RSS feeds anyway since you use RSS feeds to display the data in any different format.