RSS - RSS Feeds Are SEO Poison

First, the reason people think RSS feeds can't add SEO value to a site is that a long long time ago (I'm talking Internet time so that could be last week) when JavaScript was the primary means of pulling feeds, search engines couldn't read or index the feed because they couldn't and still can't read JavaScript.

Its true, feeds can drive traffic away from your site, but you can also choose to display feeds in new windows so your site is still open in a visitors browser for an easy return to your site. Besides, the value that an RSS feed adds with SEO and increased traffic to your site far outweighs the cost of possibly losing some visitors. RSS feeds help you build an automated linking strategy. Read full article.

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