How to add random RSS content to your site

Most internet marketing experts will know how important it is to add new content to your sites on a daily basis, but sometimes the problem is finding the time and/or the content. Adding an RSS feed is a great way to add new content to a site, but again the problem is that most of them only update weekly.

I’ve been racking my brains 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 – adding random RSS feeds seemed to be the answer!

So I did some internet searching to see what’s available. A search for “add random content to the site” surely brought up a slew of links, most of which went to sites that wanted to sell me their wares for hundreds of dollars!

Having been on the internet for quite some time, I now know that most 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 I’d like to share with you for…you guessed it, 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 need 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 to display its content, you’ll need to make the box a bit larger. To achieve that you have 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 and change the width or height when necessary. If you don’t want a frame around your content, change this 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, then I’ll show you where to get the content.

As you can see, the script calls the pages like this:

random content[0]=”random1.htm” – change “random” to whatever you want to call your created html page – eg Successstory1.htm.

Basically you can display unlimited pages with this script. To add more pages to display, just add:

eg 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.

For free rss content to rotate head over to http://www.goarticles.com They also have literally thousands of free articles that you can use for new content on your site. Add the code for the rss scripts to the blank html pages you’ve created (or an article if you prefer) and then upload all your pages to your server.

Make sure the page you’re calling them from (the page with the random Java script) and your 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 more rss feeds, just search for “free rss feeds” in any of the search engines.

There you have it. Random rss content for your site without having to pay a dime.

Enjoy your new content and increased traffic!