DISQUS

roundstone · 8 months ago

Thanks for this article. First, I want you to know that I subscribe to your RSS. I had been reading up on embedding RSS and was in fact looking for RSS to html as I read this is readable by the spiders, i.e., you have automatic blog posting too everyday.

Of course, some people do not want that and some people do, it really depends on what is your purpose. For me, I wanted my social network members http://tigercom.socialgo.com to have a heads up on topics that would have interest to us. And, a title clearly attributes that it is coming from an RSS feed or that is news.

Your title says "RSS to html" but it covers other embedding formats, i.e., Java, Php, Ajax, iframe, etc. Am I being too literal in looking for rss to html or are any of these embed outputs in your article "spiderable" too?

RobinGood · 8 months ago

Good point for those interested in the strict SEO aspect of this.

Only HTML is fully indexable by search engines as far as I know, and
therefore only very few of the above tools actually provide true HTML code
to display the RSS feed.

As you correctly point out, the use of Java, PHP includes and JavaScript to
"embed" such content widgets on your web pages, makes the content contained
in those solutions generally not indexable by search engines.

One solution that does this well, allowing full HTML output and SEO
visibility is Antone Roundy CaRP Evolution. It's a beet geeky but if you
know where to put your hands I think you will like what you see.

spataro · 2 months ago

About seo concerns: use "widget".

jasonalvarado · 4 months ago

Thank you for this very helpful list. You saved my life!!!

emppu · 2 months ago

...is there any generator, which will embed also pictures? I mean, some of them were behind the click, but I don't have any use of them, since most of the things I want to embed are plain pictures.

markma · 3 weeks ago

We're using www.rsspump.com on our website, works just fine.