How to display RSS Feeds on a Web Page?
Do you often update your web page? RSS feeds keep the content of the page updated automatically without intervention that you can conveniently syndicate information from various sources and publish fresh content, such as ezines, press release, news agencies, and blogs.
Many advantages we can get from adding RSS feeds to web pages. As the content of the web page is automatically updated, every time search engine spiders crawl the web page they are likely to find the web page updated, plus we do not have to bother about writing fresh content. Furthermore, the visitors will also find new content on every visit and they might be tempted to visit the web page more often.
Adding RSS feeds to a web page by using java script makes fresh content available to the readers; however, the content of the feed cannot be “read” by search engine spiders. Different from PHP based installation that makes it possible to get the benefit of changing content from the search engines.
This article outlines the simple steps to put RSS feeds on a web page. One of the free versions software is available from CaRP that can be downloaded from http://www.geckotribe/rss/carp/, which also gives detailed instruction manual for installing and running the software. Nonetheless, below are the simplest steps to load and run the software:
CaRP – RSS to HTML Converter
1. Download the software on your computer, which will come in a zip file. After unzipping, save the available folders and files on your computer that will be available – carp (folder), img (folder), carpsetup.php, README.html.
2. Upload all the files and folders to the root directory of your website by using FTP. If uploading is done file by file, ensure that the names of the files and folders and location of files in their folders do not change.
3. Run the setup file carpsetup.php from you web browser.
4. A new page will be displayed, which two options are given there and both are fairly simple to work with. The file based cashing option is sometimes easier to set up since you do not have to create a database and copy and paste the setup code into carpconf.php. You could try this option first and if you face any problem you can choose the other option which is based on mySQL database.
The following steps are for mySQL database option.
5. Create a new mySQL database.
6. In step 4 above select mySQL database option, then another new page will open in which you have to fill the details of mySQL database. Click on “Create Database Tables”.
7. The page which opens now will have code which has to be put on the web page where you want to show RSS feed. The code will be displayed in a gray box.
8. Within the code there is “setup code”. This setup code should be pasted into a file called carpconf.php. The file will be available in carp directory. On the html script of this file locates the line “//Add configuration code that applies to all themes here”. Just below this line pastes the setup code.
9. Choose a web page where RSS feed has to be displayed. The file name of the page should have .php extension. If your page has .html or .htm extension, you can try replacing only the extension with .php. Normally, this should not change the way the page appears in a web browser. If you bump into any problem you could make a new web page with .php extension.
10. At appropriate location of the web page, where you want RSS feed to be displayed, paste the code in the html script of the page. From there, you can remove the setup code. It is not required to be added to all pages once it has been added to carpconf.php page in step 8 above.
11. If you now open your web page in the web browser, it will start showing the RSS feed which comes along with the package. For changing this to RSS feed of your choice, you will need to make changes in the code you have entered in step 10. In the code there is a URL after CarpCasheShow. Change this URL with the URL of RSS feed you wish to display.
12. Now the web page will display the RSS feed of your choice. You can choose to display more feeds on the same page or have separate pages for RSS feeds for different sources.
Finished Interface of a CaRP Atom and Podcast
You can always refer to more detailed instructions which come with the package, plus take advantage of the free content available and use them to boost your page positioning and traffic to your website.
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