Penny Haynes, founder of the International Podcasting Expo, gave tips on how to add content from RSS feeds to your website. This is good for those who have multiple podcasts and blogs and want to show the content from those feeds on one website.
Some tips from Penny:
- Make sure you use PHP to display RSS feeds on your website. Using ASP or javascript will not be picked up by search engines.
- Download a zip file that contains what you need to upload to your server so you can add RSS content to your website.
- At that point, all you’ll need to do is insert a line of PHP code into your page and then the content will appear.
Ignat is correct. When you have ASP, your options for server side simple syndication scripts are limited, and Java syndication is not picked up by search engine robots, whereas the php syndication scripts are.
I think it means that you shouldn’t use client side languages in your RSS feeds such as Javascript and Basic (not ASP). But server side technologies are all right, that is PHP, Ruby, JSP, ASP, .NET, Python, CGI are fine.
Well, I’m an avid PHP gal, but it doesn’t mean I’m an expert in it. In any case, I was multi-tasking while she was presenting, so I probably didn’t capture everything.
Ah well, when the recordings come out, I’ll post to my blog and perhaps listening to Penny’s presentation will make it much more clear.
‘Til then, if someone who attended her presentation can shed more light on the point she was making about why it’s better to use PHP to publish RSS content to your website, please do so.
Hmm. There must be some miscommunication. I’m an avid PHP guy but I can’t for the life of me see what the connection between PHP and search engines over ASP would be.