Please integrate RSS feeds into GeekShop
Hello, this isn't really a product support question however I couldn't figure out where to put this feature request. It would be useful to add a discussion category for "Feature Suggestions" for topics like this one.
Mark, you and I discussed this briefly so I wanted to add a discussion thread for this feature since I think it would be a great one for SEO. Let me explain briefly what I intend to do with it and then if people have questions or suggestions they can use this thread to do that.
I want an RSS feed built for GeekShop because I want to promote each product that I post using IFTTT. There is an SEO method that the folks over at Semantic Mastery teach called Syndication Academy. Basically you create (or have someone else create) a ring of Web 2.0 properties around your GeekShop site. You then link these properties using IFTTT and each time you post a product or a blog post, that gets syndicated out to your other Web 2 properties. Of course you include a link back to your web site and over time this will help boost your rankings in Google and get organic traffic (the white hat way) back to your site.
Mark and I had a brief discussion of adding RSS and he thought it was a good idea. Since IFTTT works by monitoring your RSS feed and then running a set of "recipes" when a new post happens, a RSS feed from our sites is needed.
Please let me know what you think or if you have other ideas!
Thanks, Scott
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i didn't look into this specific feature, but what's wrong with the built-in rss?
there's a route in your system for rss: supposedly, if you go to www.your-domain.whatever/rss you should get rss output.
even comments in the routes file says:
The following route will show an rss feed of the last 100 products that have been added to the site
You're right! I'm new to GeekShop and Laravel. How did you see this? Was this in the Laravel documentation? I appreciate you pointing this out to me since I did not know it was there. As for if this is good enough, the answer is yes and no. As you read, my intention is to use IFTTT and to syndicate my posts and products to Web 2 properties. In this way this RSS feed will be fine and will trigger the applets (they used to call them recipes) which I make in IFTTT. However from an SEO standpoint, because I'm syndicating exact duplicates of my products/posts, it's best to include attribution with them. The attribution of course points back to my website and is part of the power of why this works because I get linkjuice from these links. It would be best if the code simply put the attribution there in the RSS after each post so I don't have to make it a part of the product description--which will look weird.
One of the nuances of the RSS plugin that Semantic Mastery created was it's ability to use and recognize spintax in the attributions area. By doing this the attribution could be assembled with replacement words and therefore the link and the text around it could be intermixed and not in itself create massive duplicates or over optimization of keywords.
Here's an example of the spintax they give...
The {following |}{post|article|blog post} |}%%POSTLINK%% {was {first|originally} {seen on|published on|published to}|is {courtesy of|available on|republished from}}: <a href="http://www.DOMAIN.com/"{ rel="nofollow"|}>{http://DOMAIN.com/|http://DOMAIN.com|http://www.DOMAIN.com/|http://www.DOMAIN.com|www.DOMAIN.com|COMPANY NAME|COMPANY NAME LLC|COMPANY NAME|OWNER'S NAME|COMPANY NAME Service|COMPANY NAME Blog|COMPANY NAME Service Blog}</p>
You can watch a run down of their plugin here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91bXFjjSvWY
The plugin is free and you can look at the code within it--the spintax code they attribute to Jason Davis - http://www.codedevelopr.com/
The plugin is designed for Wordpress by the way. http://semanticmastery.com/rss-recipes/
What's neat is that if you look at a RSS feed from a site which is running the plugin, you can refresh the page and see all the spintax change. Anyway, since the point of GeekShop is to get people to your site, I hope that SEO for the site is important. While I can do some blackhat stuff like PBNs, GSA, SER and other things, I'd prefer to start with IFTTTSEO. In that way, tier 1 of the site is completely white hat and then I can spam the web 2 properties if I want since they can take a lot of beating--from a spam perspective--without getting penalized.
One more thing to mention. The descriptions of each product on GeekShop are short enough that they don't get truncated in the current implementation of RSS. I assume that there's no truncation at all in the RSS implementation of GeekShop, right? I should note that Wordpress truncates after a certain number of characters in their RSS feed. Perhaps you've seen it from another site where it will have a [read on...] or [...] after a certain number of characters. Semantic Mastery removes the truncation in their plugin so that the full article--in our case product or blog post--can be fully published. You want that because we're re-posting it on other websites, such as Tumblr, Blogspot, weebly, Twitter, etc and therefore you don't want it truncated.
I should state for the record that I'm not affiated with Semantic Mastery in any way.
Thanks Mark! Let me know if you want to have a discussion about it. I'm certainly willing to do some testing and I'll have a web 2 ring I can test it out with. I'll give you access to those properties as well if you want to do some testing too.
One more feature suggestion, again this isn't my idea but from the SM plugin...
Most RSS feeds are structured as http://somedomain.com/rss or somedomain.com/feed but the SM plugin allows you to add a slug into the URL. This allows for a keyword or longtail keyword to be added to the URL, which can be helpful from a SEO perspective. So the URL now becomes http://somedomain.com/gifts-for-men/feed or https://somedomain.com/home-and-office-gifts/feed.
It's a nice SEO feature since the entire URL is considered along with many other things for Google ranking. Since "Exact Match Domains" or EMDs are not a recommended SEO method anymore (since 2012) adding a string into the URL after the domain still works.
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