RSS Tutorial - Using RSS to Create Content

Using RSS to Create Content

Summary

You can use RSS to put content on your website or blog. Usually this means putting headlines or a short summary of information on your website or blog with a link back to the original post or article.

Use RSS Feeds to create Content for your website.

Using RSS feeds to create content can provide entire webpages or enriched webpages.
Using RSS feeds to create content has some issues, including copyright, SEO, and technical issues.
Using RSS feeds to create content - examples.

Detail

Some reasons to use RSS to create content.

Provide a sidebar of news.
Generate a quick webpage.
Provide links to your blog posts from your website.
Add value to your webpages using the the wealth of RSS feeds.
Provide a source of fresh content on your webpages. RSS feed information is automatically updated.

How You Can Instantly Tap Into an Unlimited Source of Content, for Free!: This article is overly dramatic, but it is a good overview of using RSS to create content.
How To Keep Your Website Fresh with RSS: Using RSS to create fresh content for your website.

Some issues about using RSS to create content.

There are copyright issues. Many RSS publishers want you to use their RSS Feeds because it generates traffic back to their site. Some RSS publishers copyright their feeds.
There are technical issues. Putting RSS Feeds on your website or blog is not for the faint hearted. There are some services that are making it much easier, but it usually involves adding scripts to your website or blog. That script can be JavaScript, PHP, ASP, or others. All the usual script issues apply. Your site visitors can have scripts turned off. Your server might not support the script you would like to use.
There are SEO (Search Engine Optimization) issues. Be careful not to create duplicate content.
There are Splog issues. Splogs are spam blogs. Splogs are usually created automatically by using RSS feeds for the sole purpose of selling advertising.

Examples of using RSS feeds to create content on websites and blogs.

The following all use the FeedBurner Service.

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