Sitekit News Feed - Capturing The Ether
Sitekit News Feed ensures you are able to present the latest news from around the world on your site. News feeds are imported into your site via RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and presented dynamically as an extension to your own news. By importing this information from sources such as the BBC, CNN or from market analysts you are ensuring that your site always has fresh information providing site visitors with more than just corporate content.
News feeds are the perfect opportunity to provide a unique brand extension by tailoring the news feeds to your visitors profile (captured by Sitekit Forms) and by placing the information they want at their fingertips the RSS feeds establish loyalty to your site.
Sitekit News Feed - Capturing The Ether in more detail
News is important on your website. Your users can look at one news page on your site and glean the following information:
- How up-to-date is this site? - by looking at when the last news item was posted.
- How involved in the web are this organisation? - by looking how frequently news articles are posted.
- How long has this site been around? - by looking at the sites oldest news article.
Search engines are not blind to using news pages as an indication of a site's size either. That's why it's important to have a good maintainable news system on your site. Sitekit CMS delivers such a system offering the following features:
- News validity date ranges - News items can be posted ahead of time and then embargoed until a specific time interval.
- Auto-archiving - once an archive period has been set news items will automatically move from the main news page to a news archive page. The archive is ordered by month via links rather than a form to allow search engines to index your past news stories.
- Images can be associated with news articles.
- RSS feed - all articles posted to a specific news module are available as an RSS formatted XML based news feed, syndication for free.
- Sites with multiple news feeds can pull and push news items. - News can be pushed and pulled from one news module within a site to another to allow cross posting of articles.
