RSS Feed for new products.....

[discxpress]

Hello fellow OSCers,

 

I've been reading information on RSS feeds becoming a big part of SEO and a great way to alert search engines of new content on your website. Google and Bing/Yahoo allow the submission of RSS feeds the same way you'd submit an XML sitemap. 

 

I see there are several RSS addons but not updated to modern-day OSCommerce standards. From my understanding, there's a somewhat resurgence of RSS feeds and many of the big guys use them in some form.

 

I don't quite understand how to alert the search engines of new content via RSS feed. Does the code ping the search engine when the shop owner adds new content? Or does the shop owner refresh the feed in Webmaster tools?

 

If RSS feeds alert the SE's of new products, then that would be better than waiting on them to look for new products in your sitemaps.

 

I think a new content module to generate an RSS feed may be another step forward for shop owners and OSCommerce. What do you think?

 

Please chime in.

 

Thanks for reading

[burt]

XML is a data feed

RSS is a way to make it

Another way to make it is ATOM

 

So...if you have a XML feed, you already have a useable RSS feed as well.

 

Does it make sense ?

[discxpress]

@@burt

 

Yes it makes sense. I have several XML feeds. I use an addon which produces an sitemapindex.xml file and spins out several sitemapproducts.xml files each containing up to 50,000 products. Also, I have an XML file I submit to Google Shopping. So determining the best XML file to present the new products to the SE's via RSS would be next.

 

Also, instantly alerting the SE's of new products would be the next task. How would they know of new products without first crawling all the sitemaps entirely?

[Guest]

@@discxpress

 

I am working on a feed generator for Google Shopping and would like to ask you a few questions about what you are doing.  Will send a message, please check your inbox.

 

Thanks,

Scott