Date created: 22 August 2004

If you’re having problems getting your whole site indexed then you should add a search engine friendly site map to your site. You’ll need a site map when:

• Your site menu is flash or pure javascript (most rollover scripts are OK if they use ‘<a href’ links).
• Your menu structure is more than 3 levels deep.
• Some of your content is not getting indexed and it is publicly readable i.e. not behind a fire wall, login isn’t required, etc.
• You want to provide some ‘Spider Bait’ i.e. optimized link text.

Whatever your reason (or for no reason) a site map will not hurt your search engine position and may help.… Read the rest

Updated: 10 May 2005
By Dylan Downhill

This is a quick guide to displaying an RSS feed on your website. It is not meant to be extensive, it is meant to get your feet in the door of displaying content using RSS in the quickest time possible.

Displaying RSS Data

The two main ways to display RSS data on a website is either through client side javascript or through server side scripting. The advantage of client side javascript is it offloads the processing to the site visitor, the disadvantage is the search engines don’t run client side code and so all your syndicated RSS content will not be indexed.… Read the rest

This is a quick guide to publishing your web content through an RSS feed. It is not meant to be extensive, it is meant to get your feet in the door of publishing content using RSS in the quickest time possible.

RSS File Format

A RSS feed is simply an XML file containing information on pages within your site. The RSS file format is as follows:

<?xml version=”1.0″ ?>
<rss version=”2.0″>
<channel>
<title>Title Text </title>
<link>Link to site’s home page </link>
<description>Description of the feed</description>

<item>
<title>Page Title</title>
<description>Page Description</description>
<link>Page Link</link>
<author>Email to Contact You On</author>
<pubDate>Published Date</pubDate>
</item>

</channel>
</rss>

Where the contents from <item> to </item> are repeated for all the content you want to publish through the RSS file.… Read the rest