petra - 9:22 pm on Apr 5, 2006 (gmt 0)

If you use ASP to generate HTML from XML on the server, then all the search engine can see is the HTML. However, if you use JavaScript on the client to process the RSS, all the search engine can see is the script.

Exactly however I use php.

And another thing is since you using some body else RSS it’s probably already indexed by some SE’s so aren’t you going to be penalize for double content? If any one else could answer this it would be greatly appreciated as well.

In my case, I'm not using other people's content, I'm using the latest posts from my forum and embedding them through php withing the html of my site (in various themed sections.)

However, even if you use other people's content, you will still do well from an seo pov as long as you have other original content on your page besides the feed.