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Your RSS Feed Might Look Like Spam

January 5, 2010 by Chris Wood  
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Your RSS Feed Might Look Like Spam

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes RSS feeds seem to be the breakout technology for the year. With more users turning to them for driving traffic to their site, its no wonder that a trail of RSS feed spam is following in the wake. A careful editing of your RSS feed could make the difference between being classified as genuine content or RSS spam. RSS search engines are just beginning to pick up steam. As more RSS feeds become searchable, the number of visitors will increase and spam is sure to follow. It is an unfortunate side effect of free communication. While RSS users can typically unsubscribe to feeds they deem as spam, browsing with keywords in an RSS search engine is where the problem arises. RSS spam largely consists of three main types most often found in the RSS search engines. The first type is keyword stuffing. Keyword stuffing involves filling each RSS feed article with high-value keywords for a specific topic. The articles are not intended for human visitors, but instead for...