I’ve spent the day looking for a way to insert an rss feed into my site so that I could:
1. Subscribe and publish the headlines for my blog directly onto my site
2. Play around with a bit of technology.
Now I know that there’s a lot of noise about how great rss is with regards to burning a feed which I have done, which now means that you lucky readers can subscribe to my blog (I would appreciate that somebody subscribed to my blog - not just the spammers who are trying to sell viagra and debt management loans!!!).
What I wanted to do was also put a feed from a few other sites into my site, relevant headline stuff from sites I use a lot.
But it has occurred to me that none of the search engines will actually spider the javascript that I need to put into my site. And they do then all the robots are going to do is spider a rss feed.
I really can’t see the point in that when I can create good quality content myself.
So my thoughts on RSS, great to stick on a blog so people can subscribe but to be quite honest, a bit of a waste of time if you are hoping it is going to provide loads of rich content - its the equivelent of using <frames> - the content might look pretty but no search engine will associate the content with your site.
So I’m quite happy updating my little headlines section with my new posts which I will be doing in a few hours.
If you agree, disagree, think I’m an Idiot or can convince me otherwise then please leave a comment (as long as your not flogging viagra!!
ta ta for now
dt
