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Would you post an RSS feed on your site even with links?

Is the fresh content a fair trade for the embeded links?

         

warth0g

10:17 pm on May 26, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Im just wondering - is the content value a good feed worth the link backs you get in the feed?

I have a site that provides a feed with daily fresh content of freelance graphic design jobs. I want to get this feed on lots of websites! Im just wondering, do I need to offer payment to webmasters to run the feed on their site, or is just the fact that a feed keeps a site populated with fresh daily content enough value?

Would love to hear your thoughts.

piatkow

10:32 am on May 27, 2007 (gmt 0)

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It may be because I work largely with voluntary organisations and one man businesses but I haven't come accross a web master savvy enough to actually use an rss feed! I target my feed at regular visitors using aggregators or Firefox smart bookmarks.

Beagle

1:36 pm on May 27, 2007 (gmt 0)

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If you want other websites to run your RSS feed, be sure to have a permissions statement to that effect in a prominent place. Assuming you've created your own feed with your own content, you hold the copyright to it, and any webmaster who runs the feed on another site without your permission would be in violation of copyright. The end users that piatkow talks about aren't a problem, as they're not redistributing it - they're usually the target audience.