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EngineerofSuccess



Joined: 18 Aug 2006
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:46 pm    Post subject: I need help setting up RSS in blogger for organic search Reply with quote
Hello everyone. My name is Shawn. I am very new to the affiliate marketing game. Also a new Google AdSense publisher. Can anyone assist me in setting up an RSS feed on blogger? In the blog below:


http://discount-travel-vacation-packages.blogspot.com


I borrowed a javascript link from amazines.com. The company told me that the content I borrowed from them does NOT get crawled on by search engines and will NOT help my blog get indexed. Can anyone show me how to get free search engine traffic using RSS in blogs please?

Thanks in advance,

Shawn
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leb123z



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 4:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi Shawn,

I am no RSS expert as I'm in the process of setting up my own RSS feed in Blogger as well, but since your blog is hosted on blogspot.com still, while mine is hosted on my own domain which I'm having problems with, then I believe you can just go to www.feedburner.com and type in your blog address there and just follow the steps from there and you will be set up! Good luck and hope that helps,

Liane
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
If your blog is in your own domain then feed is available at http://www.yourdomain.com/feed/ (for wordpress blog)
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Your RSS feed provider must know.

RSS comes in and goes out. I think people are confusing having an incoming content feed with an outgoing one. The outgoing one is what gets your site indexed.

To get your blog site indexed ping it at pingomatic when you post, but no more than daily. Get My Yahoo, My MSN, and Google home pages and add your blog feed there. You'll be indexed in less than a week.

At blogger your blog feed url is your entire blogspot url followed by /atom.xml

I use feedburner with Blogger for RSS. Blogger publishes in Atom. Feedburner converts the Atom to RSS. Wordpress add-ons don't generally work for Blogger.

Looking at your site, for what you're doing I think you'd be better off with Wordpress.

Hope this helps,
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You can publish an rss icon on your blog pointing to either your blogspot atom feed url or one that you've created by feedburner. But if you want free search engine traffic from your feeds other webmasters need to display your feed on their website. For other webmasters to do this you need to have updated content and they need to know you exist.

I would focus on getting links to your blog from other travel related bloggers using blogspot to build up your backlinks, pr etc. then as your site moves up in the search rankings others will be more prone to publish your rss feed on their sites bringing you even more backlinks.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi Shawn,

Just go to settings > "site feed" and your feed is listed there.

Or do you want to iclude a link to your feed in your side bar? If so go to template > edit current

Scroll down to <!-- End #profile --> and just after that place the following...

Quote:

<h2 class="sidebar-title">Rss Feed(s)</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="url of your feed goes here">Rss - Atom</a></li>
</ul>



Cheers, Chris
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Chris Demetrios



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
EngineerofSuccess wrote:
I borrowed a javascript link from amazines.com. The company told me that the content I borrowed from them does NOT get crawled on by search engines and will NOT help my blog get indexed. Can anyone show me how to get free search engine traffic using RSS in blogs please?


Hi Shawn,

Amazines is correct. Javascript feeds are ignored by the search engines, so it doesn't help to have one on your site if you are looking for SEO. However, they are useful for providing content to your visitors.

For the send part of your question, you will not be able to do what you intend (planting other peoples RSS on your site) with a blogger blog. Sorry...

To achieve your purpose you will need:
1) to have your blog hosted on your own domain (e.g. wordpress)
2) then you will need to install software that will parse (convert) RSS to HTML.
3) then you need to get someone to modify your template to include the converted feed into your blog.

I'm currently investigating scripts that do this. I'll post feedback here and in my blog ar a later date.

Regards,
Chris
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Akram



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Chris,

RapidFeeds MySite ( http://www.rapidfeeds.com )is a free service which does exactly what you are looking for. RapidFeeds MySite helps you display content from any RSS or Atom feed on your website or blog.


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leb123z



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi nuvru,

Is it really worth it to publish an RSS icon on my blog published through Blogger, but hosted on my own domain, which points to the blog atom feed address?

I'm not sure what that would do and how it would be any different from my blog readers just visiting my blog and clicking on the previous or archived posts there. Still not getting the RSS thing!

Thanks,

Liane
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