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RSS and Daily News Feeds

keeping visitors on a site

         

DXL

9:08 am on Apr 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

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So I have to set up some live feeds for a site, and I've been looking at dozens of different sites that offer RSS feeds (some had been recommended to me here recently). Some offer free feeds, some offer feeds for as much as $200+ a month.

Only it just occured to me that almost every feed I've looked at, when you decide that you want to read an article you actually have to leave the site completely. For some reason, I was under the impression that you could pump in 100% of the news into a target frame, and keep people on your site (and the articles credit the original source, like the Washington Post, etc.)

Are there any places where I can subscribe to a few feeds (local news, national news, sports) and visitors never have to leave my site, it posts the entire articles on the page?

eventus

10:43 am on Apr 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Typically RSS news will only contain a headline or maybe a sentence or two of the article. These sites provide this content so that they will hopefully draw the user to their site to view the full content.

The fact is that you must pay to use full content that others produce.

Sites like yellowbrix, moreover, all headline news, upi, AP all offer full article services for a fee, only fair, you want to be paid for your work.

DXL

11:32 pm on Apr 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I'm fine with paid subscriptions, though, that wasn't an issue. I checked into all the companies you listed, some of them were extremely expensive, though (I don't see how some of those set up charges could be worth that much).

I ultimately chose one of the companies that you mentioned, though. The pricing was pretty good, it seemed ridiculously easy to integrate it into a page, and the sales staff was really helpful. Was about to go with one company but they never answered phone calls or emails after the first discussion, guess they're doing that good that they don't need new clients.