Carsten,
Thanks for stopping by and sharing about this topic. I appreciate it very much and I am sure that others will too.
While I am just getting my feet wet with Datafeeds I am learning quickly that this powerful media and marketing technique is very lacking in many ways!
I am not a programmer and have only dabbled enough to know that is another profession....that I am not going into, but what I do know about it is enough to know that I need help with it.
While my first attempt at getting datafeeds on my pages indeed did use the program RSS2Blog to post it to a Wordpress Blog this program and Wordpress also can post to regular html pages. I am sure you are aware of that also as Wordpress has really evolved into a powerful CMS software instead of just a Blogging software.
So in my first attempt, with the available information that I had available, was somewhat successful in that I did indeed get datafeeds uploaded to my page.....but that was the start of my questions....that brought me here to ask questions.
While this first attempt I consider a minor major accomplish
for me in my goals to learn datafeeds I now realize that this was just a baby step in the right direction.
I have had web pages since 1995 and have been building my own since 1999 and I have made it a big effort to learn as much as I can about SEO so while I would not consider myself an expert I am literate of the topic and can hold my own to a certain degree.
I was also dropped off the charts in the Google Florida Update but it was not because of a duplicate content penalty as all of my content on that main page of mine was original and created by me. I think a lot of other factors were involved. And in today's world there is a lot of duplicate content posted on web pages especially in the form of RSS feeds and it doesn't seem to affect them to the extent that maybe it did, maybe because of the rise of RSS since the Florida Update. Just an observation.
After TheCaymanHost posted your web page (Thanks again) I have spent quite a bit of time there and you have a tremendous amount of information there to digest.....and explore and it looks and feels like I will find lots of answers there but....
in my searches so far
I have not found a good guide that says
"If you want to get started with Datafeeds this is the best way to it from the Beginning" which is why I have been going around the block in this learning adventure.
What I find is "You could do it this way" or "You could do it that way" or "Maybe this way".........guess I chose a way that might not work as well as others although I have this strong feeling that if a way is found that would allow one to update feeds easily in a WordPress application it could out perform some other options.
I see a huge need for a
revolution in the way datafeeds are produced and distributed and I know that you have been dealing with this issue much longer than I. Is there a reason that datafeeds are not more standardized?
Carsten you advice is much appreciated! Thanks. I hope that through your help and resources I can find a good solution or two or three.....
But let me ask the question as I end this post.....
If you, with the knowledge that you have today, were to recommend to someone the best way to get started with Datafeeds, to get them started in the right direction, what would you suggest to them in a step by step approach?
Thanks
Charlie