How to add random RSS content to your site
Most internet marketers will know how important it is to have new content added to your sites on a daily basis, but the problem sometimes is finding the time and / or the content. Adding an RSS feed is a good way to add new content to a site, but the problem again is that most of them are only updated weekly.
I’ve been racking my brain trying to find a semi-automatic way to do this to make my life a little easier. Search engines are always looking for new content; The answer seems to be to add random RSS feeds!
So I did some internet searches to see what is available. A search for “add random content to site” generated a large number of links, most of which went to sites that wanted to sell me their products for hundreds of dollars!
Having been on the internet for quite some time, I now know that most of the information that is for sale can be found most of the time with just a little work. So I refined my searches a bit and found a gem that I would like to share with you … You guessed it, for free! It will take a bit of work on your part to tweak the script a bit, but it’s worth it, right?
First you will have to go to: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/randomiframe.htm and copy the available java script. This displays a small 130×130 content box. Go ahead, before they decide to start selling it!
Paste the script into your favorite editor and make the following changes:
To change it and display its content, you will have to enlarge the box a little more. To achieve this, you need to change this code snippet:
width = 130 height = 130
I have mine set to width = 500 height = 800 but you need to change it to fit your content. Play around with it a bit and change the width or height when necessary. If you don’t want a frame around your content, change this code snippet:
frameborder = “1” to frameborder = “0
To display your content, you will need to create html pages for it. For now, just create a blank html page, I’ll show you where to get the content later.
As you can see, the script calls the pages like this:
random content[0]= “random1.htm” – change the “random” to whatever you want to call your created html page – for example, successstory1.htm.
Basically you can display unlimited pages with this script. To add more pages to display, just add:
p. ex. random content[4]= “random5.htm”, random content[5]= “random6.htm” etc.
Now you can add the script to any page where you want to display random content.
To rotate free rss content, go to http://www.goarticles.com. They also have literally thousands of free articles that you can use to get new content on your site. Add the code from the rss scripts to the blank html pages you have created (or an article if you prefer) and then upload all your pages to your server.
Make sure the page you are calling them from (the page with the randomizer java script) and its content pages are in the same directory; otherwise you will have to change the path to the pages in the java script code.
If you want to get more rss feeds, do a search for “free rss feeds” on any of the search engines.
So there you have it. Random rss content for your site without paying a penny.
Enjoy your new content and increased traffic!