Is it Helpful to Add a Dynamic Blog Feed to Your Homepage?
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Do you think it helps SEO significantly to add a feed on your homepage that shows a snippet of your latest blog posts? If yes, have you seen any results from doing this?
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It is a simple Perl program that we wrote. It reads the feed and writes it in our desired format to a file. That file is then inserted into pages as a server-side include.
We have that program set up to execute hourly as a server cron job.
It is an easy read-write program.
The category includes are written at the same time. For each post the Perl program looks for category assignments and writes each of them to a server-side include specific for that category.
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That is neat EGOL. Do you use some custom programs/plugins to "rewrite" the feed ?
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I have a program that scrapes my RSS feed and rewrites it into one of the columns of my homepage. It displays the post title as anchor text and a few words. This promotes all new blog posts to homepage visitors and passes a high PR link into every new blog post. Using crazyegg I can see that lots of people click those links.
This same program places the rewritten feed on other pages of the site. The posts are also added by category to relevant pages of the site. So within moments after a blog post goes out, dozens to thousands of links from relevant pages all across my site are pointing to it and sending PR and visitors.
Additional benefits are added word diversity to pages all over the site and fresh content added daily.
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