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Display RSS Feeds on Your Web Site Using Free Services
There are a number of free services available that require adding only a few lines of code to a page on a web site to display an RSS feed without the need to install any PHP scripts on the site's hosting server.
The free services all offer a JavaScript option for displaying RSS feeds. Search engines do not execute JavaScript and so cannot see the end result that is displayed. This is fine if you are displaying content that is not relevant to the theme of your web site. If the content is relevant and you want search engines to see it for web site ranking, there is one service that provides a PHP script option.
The nice thing about RSS feeds is that new items are being added on a regular basis. If you display many RSS feeds, the content will be changing frequently and search engines will learn to come back more often to index your site. That will help to improve your search engine ranking. Again, this assumes you are displaying the RSS feeds in a format the search engines can see.
Some sources have questioned whether search engines can actually see content provided by pages with the suffix php. A quick check on Google or Yahoo! confirms that search engines do indeed index php pages.
Two free services that can be used to display RSS feeds on a web site are Feed2JS and RSSInclude:
Feed2JS which stands for Feed To JavaScript is a free service from Maricopa that can be used to display RSS feeds on a web site using a simple bit of JavaScript code. A variety of different styles can be applied to the feed.
The following example illustrates the JavaScript version for displaying the Yahoo! Technology Internet News feed. If you display the souce for this page, all you will see is the JavaScript code that invokes what you see on this page. The start and end of the JavaScript code has been labeled in the source code. You will not see in the source code any of the detail visible in the browser and neither will a search engine. You can also see the CSS styles for the feed in the source code of this page. These styles can be put into a CSS file instead of between the style tags.
In addition to the JavaScript code, there is alternate script content contained within noscript tags. This is in case the person looking at the page has not enabled JavaScript in their browser. Instead they will see "JavaScript is not enabled in your browser - Click here to see the Yahoo! Technology Internet News feed".
RSSinclude is a free service that can be used to display RSS feeds on a web site. The service allows you to display a feed on a web page using JavaScript, IFrame or PHP. Only PHP is visible to search engines. The service also provides some style options.
The following example illustrates the PHP option in displaying the Yahoo! Technology Internet News feed. If you display the souce for this page, you will see all the detail of the following feed in the source. This is what a search engine will also see. The start and end of the PHP code has been labeled in the source code. The file type of this page is .php and the server PHP version is 4.3.9 which is required to execute the PHP script.
AFP - A Hong Kong man has been jailed for eight years in China for running the nation's biggest online gambling racket which hauled in more than 1.25 billion dollars in bets, according to state media.
U.S. woman posed as teen online, teased girl: attorney
(Reuters)
Reuters - A Missouri woman established a fake identity online to torment a vulnerable teenage girl who later committed suicide, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday in a trial that is being closely watched by the burgeoning social networking industry.
PC Magazine goes online-only
(AP)
AP - After 27 years as a print publication, PC Magazine is ditching its print edition and going online-only in February.
Reuters - Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and Guns N' Roses released their biggest hits on vinyl records and compact discs, but on Thursday, their new albums will debut online on MySpace.
AP - Microsoft Corp. is no longer interested in buying all of Yahoo Inc., CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday, though he told shareholders that the company would still be "very open" to a collaboration on Internet search. His comments sent Yahoo shares diving more than 20 percent.
AFP - Microsoft Corp. chief executive Steve Ballmer on Wednesday ruled out making another takeover bid for Yahoo but said the US software giant remains open to a partnership on Internet search.
