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  1. 11-24-2010 12:52 PM #1
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    Question RSS feed best practice?

    Hello

    I want to run RSS2 feed in my forum, but I don't want to sacrifice the forum performance in search engines.

    What is the best practice for RSS2 feed for SEO?

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  2. 11-24-2010 04:19 PM #2
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    It really depends on the actual type of content.

    Is it a nationally syndicated item?
    is it full text or summary?
    will it stay on your site forever, or does it get pruned?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey View Post
    It really depends on the actual type of content.

    Is it a nationally syndicated item?
    is it full text or summary?
    will it stay on your site forever, or does it get pruned?
    Hi Brain,

    Sorry I am not very technical. The content are mainly our own unique material, and they will stay forever. Language is Arabic, and we target the five GCC countries only.

    I went ahead and got my feedburner feed, I put NO for Google and Yahoo indexing.

    I want the feed to help me in SEO, I don't think I will be looking for many subscribers.

    Here is my feed MeTuners.com Forums


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  4. 11-24-2010 04:40 PM #4
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    Oh, you are talking about YOUR feed. I was reading this as you were going to display from 3rd party feeds.

    You have nothing to worry about with using your feed. Due to the vbseo ping service, everyone knows who had it first. So, even though others may show it, the weight of the page in serps should fall to you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey View Post
    Oh, you are talking about YOUR feed. I was reading this as you were going to display from 3rd party feeds.

    You have nothing to worry about with using your feed. Due to the vbseo ping service, everyone knows who had it first. So, even though others may show it, the weight of the page in serps should fall to you.
    great, so should I allow Google and Yahoo to index the feed? seems like the default setting in Feedburner is NO.

    At the moment my forums is 100% SEO ready, I just need some backlinks and contents to compete with the big boys in the region.


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    I would suggest leaving it set to no. You have an XML sitemap that is far better than a feed.
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    perfect. thanks a lot. enjoy the holiday season.
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