The Other Search Engines

**dvduval** · 06-05-2005, 10:51 PM

I am still trying to understand the importance of RSS. If you make an RSS feed for every page on your site, doesn't this just duplicate what you already have?

Note: I am playing the devils advocate here, because people have been asking me to make it so they can have an RSS feed on every page of their link directory. I've done better. I also have an RSS feed on every search results page as well.
http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/demo...x.php?q=google

So why am I doing this? Why are people asking for this?

**pr0jekt** · 11:11 PM

you wouldnt want to make an RSS feed for every page on ur site, much more a piece of HTML that u put on each page that reffers to one RSS feed. So just have on for say News and thats practically all you need.

People really dont want to visit a site every day just to find that nothing has happened. What RS feeeds do is they notify the user when something new has arrived at the site. The user may have up to 100 or even more RSS feeds that they subscribe too because put simply they dont want to keep visiting the website.

HTML Code:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/external.php?type=rss2" />

^^^ that is the code for webmaster talk that tells the user that there is az RSS feed.
the feed is located at http://www.webmaster-talk.com/external.php?type=rss2 but you should replace this with your own

**dvduval** · 06-06-2005, 12:05 AM

I found out more. The reason people want this feature is they want an easy way show parts from a main directory elsewhere instead of something like the dump offered by DMOZ.

If you want to see the features and a demo of the script which is being released tomorrow, take a look here:

http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/foru...topic.php?t=66