Make Sure RSS Feeds are Related to Your Company

If you want your website to be noticed on search engines then your content all be related and this includes RSS feeds. If someone types in a search term such as telecommute jobs and your site is about weight loss and the search engine catches this then your site ranking just might be demoted a bit.

Search ranking isn’t necessarily how good your site looks. It isn’t about how many keywords you have that lead to your blog posts or pages. It is about how good our content is. Drop tagging multiple keywords just to get your site noticed could be considered spam.

If you blog, make sure that you have at least 3 to 4 paragraphs of well written content. Don’t drop kick keywords, but use the words that represent your content. If they happen to be popular keywords then great! You want people searching for your content not people searching for other topics. Make your posts at least 300 words or greater. Some people claim that 500 words is enough and some say it is too much. Put it this way: if it covers your topic without a lot of unnecessary blabbing and is content rich in terms that are related then it will work. It might not be overnight, but it will happen.

If you do post RSS feeds on your site do not copy the content. Use them as a source to help people find other sites with information. This means just post the title to the other feeds. Do not copy the content from the feed because you will be docked for copied content and possibly even sued by the actual owner of the content.

Using RSS feeds can be very useful if inserted correctly. Users might come back for them on your site and the titles might even get you better placement in the search engine if they’re related. Just use them wisely and you should be fine.