Add RSS feed to your static site
Besides this blog I own and run a number of static conventional sites. By static I mean the conventional, non-blog website which has mainly non-dynamic pages and where the content does not change much from day to day.
The problem here is how do you get the spiders to visit your static website on a regular basis? One answer is to create a RSS feed of your static website and submit this to the major search engines who are pinged that you have fresh content.
So how to create this RSS feed? Well my recommendation is to use the free service at mySiteFeed.com which allows you to quickly and effortlessly produce an RSS feed from any url submitted. On visiting MySiteFeed.com you will firstly need to create a user and password before selecting the link ‘Add another RSS News Feed’.
You are then given two options to create the RSS feed, a manual method and an automatic method. Unless you are very familiar with RSS methods and technology, the automatic method is the simple and easy option. Consequently select the link ‘Automatically Generate a RSS Feed’.
In the new page that appears enter your home page url, email address (or their anti-spam email), feed title and feed description.
Selecting the submit button shows a summary of your proposed RSS feed and another press of the submit button finally creates your new RSS feed.
The mySiteFeed site final summary page allows you to view the created RSS feed (both as XML or HTML) as well as validate the RSS feed. The important link here though is the ‘Promote/Share your feed with your site visitors’. Once selected this gives the all important url of your new site feed and will be in the format of:-
http://www.mySiteFeed.com/feed/1569/ (where the last part is unique to your site).
Now that you have your new RSS feed, its time to let the search engines know all about it. To do this simply use the technique that I talked about in two of my previous posts i.e. Adding an RSS feed to MyMSN/Windows Live and Adding an RSS feed to MyYahoo
When arriving at the appropriate ‘add content’ pages in these rss readers, just enter your new feed url e.g. http://www.mySiteFeed.com/feed/1569/ and you will see your static web page added as fresh content to your portal reader, complete with titles, links etc.
Also remeber to tell pingomatic or technorati about your newly created feed by vising their sites. Examine your static sites statistics to check that the search engine spiders quickly come and visit as a result of this exercise.
I have created an RSS feed for my static website Great-Camping-Gear.com which is a website produced using the excellent Build a Niche Store software.
This relatively static website continues to have pages added to the indexes of the major search engines and the rate of indexing did increase once the RSS feed had been created and added to rss readers.
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