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1. RSS is provided free by most website and you can do whatever you want with them – True or False?
Answer: False
Why you may ask, most RSS feeds are derived from the original blog articles of the site who owns the feed and although they provide the information free of cost you have no copyrights to reuse them in any other manner or make derivative works out of it without giving proper credit to original author as outlined in the Digital Millennium Copyright Laws that protects intellectual property on the internet. Go check it out at Google.
2. RSS can be re-used provided you give credit to original authors – True or False ?
Answer: False (what now !)
Well I am sorry to say this folks again you cannot re-use or derive the RSS feeds in all cases, unless the provider originally has mentioned that his RSS feeds are released under some kind of “attribution” license like creative commons. Without such license agreement the original author of the RSS feed can legally file a law suit for intellectual property copyrights.
3. RSS can be useful to attract traffic to your site – True or False
Answer: False (you are probably thinking: “now you are crazy man how can this be false”)
Well let me clarify how it works. RSS feeds are derived from actual websites or blogs who already have higher traffic or pagerank and already crawled by search engine robots like Google, Yahoo and Bing (the good old MSN live search). So in essence the content is already linked to an existing website on the internet universe. So when these search engines find these same content in a different place like your derivative blog misusing someone else’s RSS feed (no offense) then the search engine penalize this duplicate content and lower the page rank of this duplicate derivative site. This concept is recently developed and is giving lots of headaches to SEO (search engine optimization) specialists. So never re-use some one else’s RSS feed my friend. Never Ever!!!
More to come in Part-2 of this article. In the meantime please take your time to check out my blog for more such exciting articles and learn how to promote your blog or business using twitter and other social media.
Author: Shibi Kannan
Skills: Freelance web designer, social media expert, active blogger
Website: tweetzy.me
Email: tweetzyme@gmail.com
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