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**ForumDomains** · 10-04-2005, 03:48 PM

I intend to incorporate RSS feeds into our web site and doubt which product should I choose? It must be PHP based. What is your favorite solution? Any experience shared 'll be appreciated.

**austinandrew** · 10-04-2005, 04:01 PM

If you are talking about incorporating other people's RSS feeds into your site, be sure to ask for permission first. It's a copyright violation. Personally, I'm in favor of people using my RSS feed on their site.

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Originally Posted by ForumDomains

I intend to incorporate RSS feeds into our web site and doubt which product should I choose? It must be PHP based. What is your favorite solution? Any experience shared 'll be appreciated.

**ForumDomains** · 10-04-2005, 04:13 PM

Do you think there are people that offer RSS feeds but are against their public use? If yes, then why should they bother publish RSS links on their sites that can be accessed and read by everybody?

**austinandrew** · 10-04-2005, 04:16 PM

It depends on a couple things. First, I wouldn't take Yahoo's news headlines and display them on your site through RSS without permission. Companies pay money to get news headlines on their sites. Second, there's been a problem with people posting the entire contents of RSS postings in an effort to get search engine exposure. I'd recommend posting a few lines of each post and then linking to the actual site. I like how DNBloggers.com has done it.

Again, I'm all in favor of it, but from past projects I think you should be careful.

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Originally Posted by ForumDomains

Do you think there are people that offer RSS feeds but are against their public use? If yes, then why should they bother publish RSS links on their sites that can be accessed and read by everybody?

**ForumDomains** · 10-04-2005, 04:26 PM

Okay, but what is your favorite solution - not for creating a RSS feed but for incorporating it? I have found this one - http://magpierss.sourceforge.net. Any insight?

**namestrands** · 10-05-2005, 07:34 PM

MagPie is hands down the greatest RSS Program out there..

You could consider creating your own aggregator and pull the feeds of several different providers into one..

As for the comments about publishing others RSS feeds.. I actually think thats the whole point of creating RSS feeds is for others to publish.. The case of people paying for this type of service is when companies like MoreOver.com who are Agregator Companies that actually pull FREE!! feeds from thousands of sources and then allows you to filter and display relevant news from across the world in a specific niche industry.. hence the reasons for cost.

RSS is about Syndication, as it says in its name.. if people did not want there information syndicated then they would not put it in this format or include an acceptable use and copyright notice.

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RSS, or really simple syndication, feeds are a means of sharing headlines and other Web content between sites or from one site to an individual computer.

RSS is one of the greatest Marketing Tools out there.. where as a small company or individual could produce an article and have it picked up by the big aggregators and fed to thousands of sights around the world.. FREE ADVERTISING... its great and I would encourage everyone who produces content to Syndicate it.. you only need to syndicate the Title and a snippet.. if people find that interesting then they are directed to your site. Everyone Wins here...

**austinandrew** · 10-05-2005, 09:09 PM

The issue isn't showing "the little guys" feeds. It's taking someone's feed like MoreOver's and publishing it on your web site. RSS is meant for personal use, such as MyYahoo, not for publishing on other web sites. But it's an incredible marketing tool, and I can't stress enough as a "not so big guy" that I want people to syndicate my content.

**namestrands** · 10-05-2005, 09:30 PM

Moreover are aggregators they do not own the feeds they take them from everyone else.. there paid service is about getting relevant information for your site.

When I launch domainindustrynews.com anyone can syndicate my content.. and I will actually encourage it..

IF there are any copyright issues, all anyone can do is ask you to remove it..

**kokopelli** · 10-06-2005, 03:08 AM

I suggest CARP

**ForumDomains** · 10-06-2005, 06:27 AM

Thanks guys for your comments. Carp is a good piece of work. I have also found http://feedonfeeds.com which is based on the magpierss. Just hesitate whether to install a whole new CMS that has an integrated rss aggregator or just one of the rss aggregators above. Will have to decide within a week. Thanks once again.

**pratiknaik** · 01-12-2006, 05:45 PM

I'd suggest you go with Drupal ( http://drupal.org ) and use it in combination with Feedburner.com ( so that u can specify how much content to fetch and also play with different syndication formats ).

-Pratik