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Hi Mark,

I am considering getting the Feed to Post add-on for search engine optimization on my somewhat static page.

I came across a page about using RSS feeds for search engine optimization. Here are two new questions I have:

1) the page says “The key to using these feeds is to have it show up in your websites page code so when search engine spiders your site, it will see all kinds of new content and thinks that your site is currently maintained and being updated frequently.

My question is do you know if it’s possible to have Feed to Post feeds show up in my page code? If so, could you explain how to do it in the simplest of terms?

2) the page also says “If you are adding RSS to your website for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), there is one important rule that must be followed: DON’T USE JAVASCRIPT! Why not? Because search engines don’t look at JavaScript, so JavaScript feeds are useless for SEO. To make news feeds visible to search engines, their text has to be embedded into your page. If you view the source of your page and you don’t see the actual text of the news feed, then search engines aren’t going to see it either.”

My question is: Is there a way for a technically challenged user to have the text embedded in the page?

(Actually, both of these tips and my questions about them seem the same to me so I apologize in advance if they are.)

Thank you,
Gail

Hello Mark,

Thank you for your reply and the information.

I don’t really understand the whitelist thing myself, but I’m using Pingdom to monitor my site downtime and the setup instructions say to whitelist some IPs they have on a list. They said one way is to use RSS feed since the list is updated regularly.

Sorry I can’t explain it any better than that:-)

Thanks so much for the links to other add-ons. I’ll definitely look into them.

I would mark this as resolved, but I’m not sure if you’ll want to say more about whitelists, so I’ll leave it to you do mark it resolved.

Have a nice day!

Gail

Hello Elise,

You were right. It was already installed. It just didn’t show up on my plugin page. I deleted the directory and have now done a successful installation of iThemes.

Thank you for your help! I will mark this as resolved.

Gail

Thanks – that was the answer. Have a nice day.