By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
RSS feeds for news, chiropractic classifieds, and the chiropractic blog pages are going through a series of updates during the next few days. At least two changes have already been put into action and the remaining updates will likely take place by August 24, 2008. This is a Sunday summary post involving changes completed and on the horizon.
At this time there are no changes to the Chiropractic RSS Feeds page but the feeds themselves will appear differently in some feed readers and on various web sites and blogs. If you are viewing this content in a feed reader, via an e-mail service, or on a third-party blog or web site, you may notice that we’ve switched to a summary format instead of providing full feeds.
Complete content including links, photos, video, and any other associated media, will continue to appear on the main Planet Chiro web site. The decision to change to a summary format was done after a team of individuals familiar with the distribution of planetc1 content concluded it may provide a temporary roadblock to those sites and individuals that are illegally scraping and redistributing PC content without permission from planetc1 or our authors.
(photo: A view of Halfdome in California’s Yosemite National Park – some incredible hiking done this summer)
For chiropractic website companies and other parties that seek to license the redistribution of content, those options continue to be available. Interested parties can contact planetc1 via e-mail (click the yellow envelope above) to request inclusion in the syndicated content distribution network. It’s hard to tell yet what effect changes to a summary format will have on our daily readers. We are considering developing more than one form of rss feed so that subscribed users of planetchiropractic content can continue viewing it in its entirety, via an RSS reader or e-mail application.
The second thing you may or may not see appearing in RSS readers or third-party web sites is the monetization of this content. We recently activated our RSS feeds to include advertising similar to what you would see on the main web site news page or homepage. There hasn’t been much configuration on how advertising will be displayed so it may range from non obtrusive to annoying in-your-face text and even image ads. We’ll be taking screenshots all week in hopes of developing a medium that will be beneficial to our users and advertisers. Personally, if I find it to be an annoyance, the advertising is getting stripped. This was a good time to do testing in order to determine what more permanent changes may be implemented in our fall web portal updates.
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding changes coming to the display and distribution of our content. This isn’t the most exciting new so I saved it for a Sunday afternoon. There are some pretty cool site upgrades on the way but we are still banging some of the bugs out. For those in the northern hemisphere, enjoy the remainder of your summer and the getting back-to-school season.
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