I have a site. Would it help its SEO ranking if I allow B2B business customers to repost the site’s blog’s RSS feed (I’m thinking of using the partial RSS feed with links back to the site to “read more.”), will that boost SEO rankings?
What if I (1) give the business customers (They may not be very tech savvy, and therefore, I’d like to give them the easiest solution.) JavaScript to put on their page that renders the RSS feed? Will the search engines even be able to detect this since it’s done with JavaScript Or, (2) should I give them iFrame code? Or, (3) is the best option to write the server-side code (say PHP, Python, Ruby, ASP, JSP, etc.) necessary to serve the RSS feed?
(4) Should I worry about this approach hurting my SEO rankings because of all the duplicate content on different pages?
UPDATE:
I would like to go the javascript route that egrunin has suggested below. I had trouble getting the RSS content using javascript because most browsers prevent cross domain ajax. I do not want to force others to write server-side code to request the RSS content. I checked out how twitter does its badges but had trouble understanding it. I think I want to do something like this: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/12/21/json-dynamic-script-tag.html but currently I am using wordpress’ out-of-the-box RSS feeds. It’s not JSON. I guess I could write a php script that outputs it in JSON. Or, maybe the javascript can parse the XML to JSON. What do you think is the best approach?
Please advise.
UPDATE: I figured it out. See the answer I give below.
Thanks!
Matt
I finally solved this using a technique called JSONP (JSON with padding).
http://www.custudentloans.org/javascripts/cusl-page.js