Look how old this is! I post at SearchCommander.com now, and this post was published 17 years 5 months 25 days ago. This industry changes FAST, so blindly following the advice here *may not* be a good idea! If you're at all unsure, feel free to hit me up on Twitter and ask.
Feed Commander is a tool I’ve developed to take the mystery out of adding RSS feeds to web pages. If you can copy and paste, you can use it, and it’s free. Veteran web designers may not need it, but for rookies, it makes things pretty simple.
It’s no secret that adding RSS feeds to your website (in moderation) can help your search rankings. Having more relevant content is always a good thing, and I’ve been recommending that people do this for years.
Last summer, I met a woman that was unable to find an easy solution for adding RSS feeds to various type of websites. Sometimes they’re hosted on Windows servers, sometimes they’re hosted in Unix boxes, and sometimes she didn’t know what they were hosted on. All she wanted, was to be able to easily add an RSS feed to any type of webpage.
He had purchased one piece of software that worked on many servers but would not work on Windows. He had purchased another piece of software that was supposed to work on Windows but did not, so he ended up adding the RSS feeds with JavaScript. What he didn’t realize was that Java was invisible to the search engines, so he wasn’t having the desired effect of adding more content to his webpages.
He was not the first person I had heard this from, and had experienced some of the same frustration myself. All I wanted was a way to easily add RSS feeds to any website, no matter what, so I set out to find a solution.
It took a lot longer than I wanted it to, but the product is finally been rolledout, and I’m calling it Feed Commander. You can easily add RSS feeds to any website, whether it’s Windows, UNIX, or any other platform. You can even generate your code in Java if you choose to, adding content for your visitors that the search engines won’t even see.
It’s completely free to use, either privately or commercially, and use of the script does provide a backlink to Feed Commander. By request, I’ve added a Professional version that will remove the backlink, and I’ve kept that quite reasonably priced. There’s also a server version for running on your own co-located servers.
If you haven’t already developed your own solution for adding RSS feeds to Windows, UNIX or any type of hosted website, then please try out Feed Commander, and let me know how you like it.
Many web designers have already come up with solutions that they like for running RSS feeds on various types of websites. But for those of you that haven’t, please try out Feed Commander
