RSS Feeds: Useing RSS Feeds For Search Engine Spider Food Part 2

This is part two of a two part series. In this part you will learn how to put RSS feeds on your site with rss2html so that they will get spidered by the search engines. Using this method can turn other people RSS feeds into constantly changing content for your site. If you would like to see this article in it's entirety please visit the link in the authors bio. Adding RSS Feeds To Your Web Page Using RSS2HTML RSS2HTML is a script that easily runs from your web host. It is a single php file that will show the RSS feed in html. This allows search engine spiders to gobble up your RSS feed content. This makes the spider think that your web page is updated every time that the RSS feed changes. In the long run this will help your page ranking as well as your search engine ranking. There are many people that have used just RSS feeds to achieve a position above the fold on all the major search engines. The first thing we need to do is get your hands on RSS2HTML. To do this simply go to RSS2HTML dot com and you will be given a few options. RSS2HTML also offers a service that will show your RSS feed information on a xml page hosted by them. We don't really want to bother with this since it is not very flexible. Instead go with option 2 which is download free RSS2HTML script. Simply go ahead and save the .rar file to your computer and extract it with winrar. You should now have three files (rss2html.php, rss2html-docs, and sample-template). The first one is the actual php file that we will be referencing on our web page. The second is the documentation for rss2html. Read this for a further description on rss2html and how to make your own templates. The third file is the template. This file controls how your feeds are shown on your page. There are more templates available for RSS2HTML that will allow you to put pictures, audio, or videos next to your RSS feed information. There are two ways to use RSS2HTML. To use RSS2HTML in it's simplest form we will simply add a link on our page that will load up the code as a stand alone page. First you will have to upload rss2html.php and the sample-template.html file onto your sites root directory. This should be the same place your homepages index file is. Once this is done go ahead and make a link using relevant keywords that directs to the following page after you alter it. http:///rss2html.php?XMLFILE=

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