Formatting the Display of RSS Feeds

When you display an RSS feed on your web site you can control how it is displayed and how much of it is displayed.

We will show you how you can

1. Display an RSS feed without any hyperlinks
2. Display an RSS feed with hyperlinks which open in a new window and don't appear as outgoing links to search engines.
3. Format an RSS feed to fit the style of your web site
4. Control how many items are displayed
5. Control how much (if any) of the description is displayed
6. Insert your own text, html and links within an RSS feed you are displaying

In order to illustrate some of the ways in which you can format and control the display of an RSS feed on your web page we have taken the same RSS feed and applied different formatting to display it in several different ways.

Firstly on the right you can see the RSS feed without any formatting applied so that you have something to compare. Note that, as with the rest of the RSS feeds displayed on this web site, we've put the RSS feed in an orange box and labeled it in orange.

You can control how many items are displayed from the RSS feed. We'll keep it to 2 items for the rest of this article to keep the page from getting too big!

This RSS feed, like most others starts with a logo, the RSS channels title and the RSS channels description. If you want you can prevent all of these from being displayed

You may be worried about RSS feeds displaying a load of links to other web sites and tempting your visitors away from your web site or effecting your pagerank - you can eliminate the links altogether, display them as text or format them so that they open in a new window and are not recognized as outbound links by search engines.

If you hold your mouse over the links in the RSS feed below you will see that they look like they are pointing to somewhere on this site instead of Amazon, this is how search engines will see the links. If you click on the links they will open in a new window and will take you to Amazon.

You can also use html formatting on the RSS feeds you are displaying. Apart from making the RSS feeds look better for your human visitors, adding html formatting can also improve your search engine rank. You probably already know that search engines place more importance on text found in headings or bold text. If the RSS feed you are displaying has keywords for which you want your web page to be found in it's title or headlines then you can add heading tags to them.

You can insert your own text or links into the displayed RSS feed.

RSS Feed Guide will provide you with all the resources you need to display RSS feeds on your website and format them to fit your needs and optimize the search engine benefits.

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