Does RSS Feed help to rank better in Google?

[hakhan201]

Hello,

I heard RSS Feed helps in ranking. However, I am not sure if I should enable RSS Feed or not. Whenever I publish an article on my site , I see that many other websites have leeched my Feed and get's the same article I written published with a nofollow backlink to my website article. The worst part is that my article doesn't appear in Google search, but the website which copied my article gets ranked in Google. Although the article gets index on google (checked by using site:website.com).

Although some articles show up after 24 hours by ranking higher from the sites which copied my article.

Any idea what should I do?

Thank you

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi,

I heard RSS Feed helps in ranking.

No, this is not a ranking factor. I have never heard of or seen any research about this either. Think about all the sites that rank exceptional wall without one.

Use it if you seed your content around, but don't think it will do anything for your SEO.

-Andy

[JordanLowry]

My company actually had a very similar problem and I wrote an article on how to go about addressing the issue. Fortunately, it is a fairly straightforward process. First keep your rss feed.

Step 1 - Identify sites that are stealing content and gather those url's where the blog posts are being published

Step 2- Reach out to the sites webmaster. Chances are they will ignore you but its worth telling them you are aware they are republishing your content without your permission.

Step 3- contact the website's hosting provider using a who-is-look up and tell them a site they are hosting is infringing upon your copyrights. If it is a legit hosting provider they will remove the url's but in our case they did not.

Step 4- File a DMCA request. Then contact Google . They are a section within search console that will walk you through all the steps.

Once that is done check back frequently and monitor if the blog posts are still within Google's index.

Hope that helps some.