Wordpress SEO 2020: Optimize Your WordPress Site for Better Rankings! (Webmaster Series Book 4) by Dr. Andy Williams

Author:Dr. Andy Williams [Williams, Dr. Andy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2020-03-19T05:00:00+00:00

11. RSS Feeds

WordPress automatically creates several RSS feeds for your site.

You can access the main feed for your site by adding /feed to the end of your domain URL.

The feed for my SEO website is ezSEONews.com/feed.

We set up the RSS feed earlier to show just 10 posts and only the title and excerpts of those. Therefore, the main feed will show the last 10 posts you published on your site.

WordPress also creates several other RSS feeds for:

1. Comments.

2. Post-specific feeds.

3. Categories.

4. Tags.

5. Authors.

6. Search feeds.

I won’t go into details showing you how to find all of these feeds. If you are interested, you can read the WordPress codex article on this topic:

https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-feeds/

From an SEO point of view, feeds are interesting. For example, there are some RSS feed submission services where you can get backlinks to your site by submitting your feed(s). Whenever you add fresh content, these feeds get updated, linking back to the new page. In terms of helping pages rank higher, these types of links won’t help at all, but they can get your new content indexed a lot quicker. What I would suggest here is not to overdo this type of submission. Pick maybe one or two of the top RSS feed sites, and submit your main site feed to each.

One thing I like to use feeds for is adding a “recent posts” section to my site's sidebar, or footer. WordPress comes with an RSS widget, and all you need to do is supply the feed URL for it to work.

For example, on my SEO site, I have a category for all “blog posts”. I can grab the feed URL for that category:

https://ezseonews.com/category/blog/feed/

I can then add it to an RSS widget:

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