RSS Feeds & Quality Scores

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RSS Feeds & Quality Scores

GetReal

5:38 pm on Jun 23, 2010 (gmt 0)

So I’m discussing the latest innovations centered around the world of SEO, and this so called ‘expert’ starts clamoring about the merits of including related RSS Feeds within your web site as a way to improve your quality scoring.

I was under the general consensus that Google (and maybe the others) viewed RSS feeds as duplicate content, and essentially dock your subsequent quality score.

So my question to the forum, what is the feeling of including RSS Feeds within your web site? Does this qualify as new, unique content? Does this improve your general SEO?

GR

milosevic

1:43 pm on Jun 29, 2010 (gmt 0)

I don't know the answer to this but I strongly doubt Google would penalise people for having an RSS feed.

explorador

10:11 pm on Nov 9, 2010 (gmt 0)

Old thread but...

In my experience I've found RSS feeds to be a great way to share content allowing others to monitor my site and copy it. That's the sad thing but you can tweak your RSS and even block some content to others.

As your question about SEO, I studied for hours, days and weeks the use of RSS on my sites to implement "RSS pings" such as WP does. I was curious about how to get "almost instant indexing" such as WP. My tests showed that the -ping- actually triggers bots to search for your RSS feed.

So in short, I now update my sites, then make a rss ping using Pingomatic and withing seconds the search results show the effect on my homepage listing, then a few seconds later the new page is added. Is not magic, it actually requires some time as the bots keep you on a sandbox and later when you kinda win their trust they begin indexing really fast. You should keep your updating frequency.