Can Someone Explain Feeds

[genuwine4532]

Okay this is driving me crazy, are there benefits to feed subscription, I mean in my blog I have the widgets for yahoo google newsgator and the like feeds.

But if I myself subscribe to these and click to feed my posts, will this help the Marketing?

I know with My Yahoo it helps to place in search engines and even with igoogle homepages, but what about with services like Newsgator? It's all a little confusing.

Thank you

[Oregon Coast Guy]

One thing is to open an account at BLOGRUSH

Second is that embedding RSS feeds on a PHP web page (SE's can't read javascript) is a great way to add fresh, syndicated content to your sites.

W3Schools has excellent tutorials on nearly every web building subject you can think of. Here is their RSS ones: RSS Tutorial

Once you get the hang of it, you can really get quite creative with other site's RSS feeds and even create your own.

Regards,

Tony

[genuwine4532]

Thanks Oregon Coast Guy,

So basically that feed would work the same way as a blog feed when the content refreshed on my site, I can ping and spread the word?

[Linda Buquet]

Theoretically no.. Pings are designed to be OUTGOING notification that YOU'VE published a new post. If you are sucking someone else's content (and you should only be showing a small snippet and a link) I'm not sure you should ping. That is, unless you are a bonafide industry aggregate blog and authority site.

[genuwine4532]

Originally Posted by Oregon Coast Guy

W3Schools has excellent tutorials on nearly every web building subject you can think of. Here is their RSS ones: RSS Tutorial

Thanks Oregon Coast,

That was a great tutorial and very easy to read and understand!

[genuwine4532]

Originally Posted by Linda Buquet

Theoretically no.. Pings are designed to be OUTGOING notification that YOU'VE published a new post. If you are sucking someone else's content (and you should only be showing a small snippet and a link) I'm not sure you should ping. That is, unless you are a bonafide industry aggregate blog and authority site.

OH!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok makes sense, That would be like piggy backing on someone else's content right?
but If I actually add ORIGINAL content written by me to my website (as I do the blog), then that would be kosher and positive correct?

[Linda Buquet]

Yep that's the right way to do it. The goal the way it's intended is to let the world know when YOU publish new content. But like I said in the other post you cant ping new content that's on a static site. It needs to be on a blog platform or using blog software.

[genuwine4532]

Ok got it, Thanks a lot

That all makes sense, I will keep updating the blog associated with my SS site and ping the content on there.