yup, I use the AutoMeta plugin, it fucking rocks

lol thanks for a great laugh, rss feeds make me thousands a month

I've never once used a rss feed on any of my sites with not editing / rewriting them first:2 cents:

That´s the thing, webgeek is talking about the people that think they can throw up a blog with a bunch of feeds, then just sit back and watch the traffic roll in.
And google is getting smarter everyday, I´ve had rewritten articles getting thrown down to 30+ serps on some of my mainstream sites.
Check out this google patent on finding near duplicate content:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/google/Duplicates.pdf

Why even waste your breath?

damn i need a tool that i can rewrite feeds before it get posted im using rss2anywhere for the feeds to get posted in my sites.. but can;t edit the feeds manually after i imported it in rss2anywhere

I assume you guys talking about rewriting the content are doing this automatically somehow..? Otherwise why not just write your own posts? :confused

the answer is in the thread

Tender, check out http://www.rssmagician.com/ . I haven't tried it but I would imagine the output is clunky at best.

Use the Force, young Skywalker.

The thing with rewriting using RSSMagician or any other content rewriter though, is if multiple people use the same script, then it puts you right back where you started, no? Multiple people throwing the same RSS feed through the same algorithm = duplicate content. I mean I'm sure the script is configurable but .. ugh. You might as well just import all dictionary words greater then 5 characters into a database, pull 10 at random and sprinkle in keywords :helpme

Not only the content, for use on some aggregators auto updating pubdates every time the feed is pulled can be very handy :winkwink:

fifty get rich quick schemes.

Well I´ve used other content rewriters previously and there´s always a bit of randomness in the algorithm so you dont get the same content over and over.
But I dont know if this is the case with rssmagician though...

If I understand what you said correctly - if I have for instance a feature page for a solo girl on my site and there is a link to that page from several pages like a top ten blondes page and a new sites page etc. Are you saying that is classed as duplicate content, even though there is only one page with the content on?

No, that's not a problem, multiple links to the same page are fine. The problem is the following: If you have a blog with multiple categories, monthly archives and maybe daily archives, each post is indexed individually BUT it also appears on those archive pages. It becomes even worse with tag clouds/alot of categories.

Example: You write 10 new posts. You tag/categorize them with "pussy", "anal", "hardcore" and "amateur" and a few that a different for each post. Now you got the 10 posts on the mainpage, you got them in the "pussy", "anal", "hardcore" and "amateur" category and on top of this months archive, maybe even on another page for the daily archive. Always the same posts, the same order. Depending on their permanent link structure, it can be even more.

So, if the different links post to exactly the same URL, it's all fine, but in my example, it's in /pussy/, /anal/, /hardcore/, /amateur/, /2007/pussy/ (or /posttitle.html), maybe /2007/03/23/.

Ok, that's what I thought. Thanks for taking the time to reply :thumbsup

i just put up, official video galleries no RSS becasue I want to do good on google,
RSS is awesome though like on my google homepage

That´s why in blogs it´s not good practice to place one post under multiple categories.Each post is going to be duplicated under all the categories you used.
What I did for my blogs was place a NOINDEX metatag on all category pages because I already had like 200 posts with multiple categories.

There is no money in using RSS :winkwink: . I guess i have to take down my blog farms

RSS is another tool to make things easier, its not a "im a lazy webmaster and ill just pop up a WP blog and take a bunch of RSS feeds" type of tool. Like anything else you need to think outside the box and you will do well.

This is more of a blog layout issue and not a RSS issue.

the problem with that is if the blog's index page is index.php - you'd have to ALLOW /index.php? - if i'm not mistaken?

Feeds should supplement the site.

disagree

then don't put out an rss feed

No money in SEO either. :thumbsup

Here's one I tried.....

http://www.gigodiary.com/

Actually a few of my blogs have people reusing my feeds (codes intact) and I enjoy it because about 20% of the sales come from their sites, not mine.

Grabbing the posts and re-writing the links is shady. Some programs do this.

bump for a good thread :thumbsup

Care to elaborate?

RSS is the stomping ground for more intense revisions and innovations. It isn't a pure science with black and white logic, however it is starting point for greater things.

In essence, syndication is a tool that allows sites to offer a more expansive variety of content. If you come to my home, you can watch TV, or open a National Geographic. On another end of the spectrum, it is a business that quite clearly has made it easier for webmasters to provide affiliate linking codes to surfers and provide updated pages with logical directories to spiders.

The real heart of all of this will be in it's future. When syndication becomes backwards compatible, when it becomes custom on both ends, when it communicates both ways in a more logical way.

At the end of the day, the same thing will be true tomorrow that is true today, and was true yesterday: If you are in this for quality, you will have longevity.

Everyone always ask how XXXJay has so many SE listings. What they should be asking is why does he have so many return visitors?

Learn how tools can help you, not be you, and you will likely be fine.

Not really. Someone will just argue about it and I am not in the mood. Just put it this way, as long as the category is relevant it is a good thing.

Right, although a feed is not different from a website when it comes to copyright and legal stuff, it's an invitation to syndicate it.

I see nothing bad with people syndicating feeds, as long as they don't rewrite them or change link codes. Some of my blogs get more traffic from scraper sites like icerocket, zewol & Co. than from google.

There are much worse things than people grabbing feeds, it's the day some nasty nph proxy hits your site, sent by a friendly fellow webmaster and google kicks you out of the index or at least ruins your rankings for a long time.

Teach me? I would love to learn. Hit me up on ICQ sometime. I have been testing some RSS feeds, changing the text.

This is a great thread! :thumbsup

I have always wondered about that. I post mine in as many as I can.

As long as it is a relevant category.

An example can be seen at http://www.pradult.com/ if you look at the News categories on the left menu.

There are 1376 entries in the main category (All Porn News), and they are also spread out over all the categories listed below. We allow up to two additional categories besides All Porn News.

Very nice. I bookmarked that one.

I never force my post into a cat. But I think about how I can make a post fit more than one.

Thanks for the tip

Booyakasha. Nuff Said.

http://www.stuartmorrison.com/images/main_ali_g_04.jpg

Why provide the rss feed if you don't want someone to use it?

as far as duplicate content goes, I was yakking with Dravyk last night about this stuff and he says that the spiders can tell the difference between the original site and the sites using the rss feeds and that the spiders do not count it as duplicate content.

I am not sure if he is right but he has done a hell of a lot of research on it and is fast becoming an seo expert.