Gauravk Posted August 4, 2019 Posted August 4, 2019 Just discovered that we can import other sites rss feed as topics and start the discussion on them, seems a very good idea to boost interaction. Wondering what are the SEO implications of copying duplicate content, sending backlinks etc.! Any tips to safely avoid them....? How to exclude certain forum (news feed) to get index? How to include some valuable discussion (occasionally) to index based on such news? Thanks in advance
Gauravk Posted August 5, 2019 Author Posted August 5, 2019 Anyone using RSS feed import here...? Appreciate your feedback, please.
opentype Posted August 30, 2019 Posted August 30, 2019 I don’t think there is a black-or-white answer regarding the SEO impact. If you have an entire site from imported content, that might be bad, sure! But if one of 30 forums is an RSS import with added comments, I wouldn’t see how it can have a negative impact. It’s nothing else than people just quoting external content manually. On 8/4/2019 at 8:29 PM, Gauravk said: How to exclude certain forum (news feed) to get index? By removing the guest access.
Gauravk Posted August 30, 2019 Author Posted August 30, 2019 To be honest we have got this idea after seeing many sites using news syndication, which can work great for communities for discussing the news, its after effect, gossip etc to increase engagement. However the SEO implication of copied content is too high, in some case even manual action is issued. So we drop the plan, for gaining little extra engagement. Now we post news manually some thread war kind of news that gets the heated argument with some meaningful reasoning sometime. Better safe than sorry.
AlexWebsites Posted September 1, 2019 Posted September 1, 2019 Topics that are created from syndicated content are not given much priority unless you start building content around them, in terms of commenting. My suggestion when importing RSS into forums is to us the title prefix which will make the page title more unique vs the source. Use rss feeds that have a lot of content and not one liners only. Two things I would like to see with RSS import are the ability to add some editor text into the first post content of that rss imported topic before or after the feed content and default tags. Right now you can add a title prefix (becomes your page title for SEO) and change the link text, but that's about it. Adding tags will add similar content to the topic page if you use that block, and that's good for SEO.
B_U_R_I Posted September 3, 2019 Posted September 3, 2019 We have a Wordpress landing page where we post news articles and such and we have an IPS forum for our community discussions. There seems to be a gap between forum content and the news articles so I thought I might import news articles to the forums through an RSS feed so people can comment, discuss... The problem is that I'm not sure if this auto-updates. Does anyone now how often RSS feed import happens? Can anyone suggest another/better way?
AlexWebsites Posted September 3, 2019 Posted September 3, 2019 8 minutes ago, B_U_R_I said: We have a Wordpress landing page where we post news articles and such and we have an IPS forum for our community discussions. There seems to be a gap between forum content and the news articles so I thought I might import news articles to the forums through an RSS feed so people can comment, discuss... The problem is that I'm not sure if this auto-updates. Does anyone now how often RSS feed import happens? Can anyone suggest another/better way? That's what's nice about pages instead of WordPress, you can set it so a new topic is created in a designated forum upon article creation. Article comments and posts from the topic are synced as well. As far as rss import, its an every 15 minute task...
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