RSS Aggregator (PHP) - Simple Pie Demo Video
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Nick: Welcome SEO Video Blog – RSS Aggregators (PHP) My Top 3 and Simple Pie Tutorial.
James: If you have a blog installed on your website, its good from both a usability and SEO point of view to have your latest news aggregating on your HP.
Nick: Our last post shows how to burn your feed using feedburner, I would recommend that you use your feedburner feed URL where possible as it speeds up loading time.
James: Most aggregators allow you to display the title, date, description, author and thumbnails. It is an excellent way of showing google and other search engines you are adding to your searchable index and providing fresh dynamic content to your website.
Nick: My top 3 recommendations for aggregators are:
1.) : Simple Pie - www.simplepie.org
2.) Magpie RSS - http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/
3.) RSS Aggregator - www.rss-aggregator.com
Tutorial on how to set simple pie up…
James: Nick is going to show an example of using an aggregator:
http://www.crearesites.co.uk/simplepie
Nick: I have chosen to show simplepie as it is the simplest to use and set, up I have set up an environment at http://www.crearesites.co.uk/simplepie and the files will be available to download on the creare communications blog.
So starting at simplepie.org or The Creare Communications Blog download the files needed, unzip and just removed the simplepie.inc and index.php page as these are the only 2 files you need.
Open the index.php in your file editor or ftp client (dreamweaver), change the feed url so http://feeds.feedburner.com/crearesearchengineoptimisationblog and then ensure that it links to the .inc correctly.
Upload see feed displaying…
You can then edit your feed to display how you like, using CSS.
You can place this feed in your footer, sidebar or where ever your design permits.
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