Keyword Based Category Population
When adding a category to PHP RSS Reader, you can assign ‘keywords’. These keywords are used to find relevant news from the news source you’ve specified for the script to crawl. This allows you to target specific keywords. Whether these are keywords you’ve identified as being profitable, or perhaps you want to increase your site’s keyword density for a specific keyword, or perhaps you just want to populate a category with relevant news to provide users with more, fresh content, to keep them coming back to the site.
Crawl an unlimited amount of news sources (or tweets!)
PHP RSS Reader allows you specify which sources you’d like to be included in the site. All you need to do is specify the RSS feed of the news source you’d like to be crawled.
SEO URL’s
One of the biggest problems with web scripts is that most developers really don’t understand how optimise a site for search engines. PHP RSS Reader provides a true SEO URL structure that will allow your site to rank highly for the keywords you’re targeting.
Favicons to distinguish between posts
When you add a new source, the script automatically tries to assign the sites favicon to the source. If the favicon can’t be found, you can simply upload a new image of your choice.
Configure News Timescales
It’s completely up to you how you’d like the timescales to appear. You can add as many timescales as you wish.
Users can create their own news feeds!
Users can sign up, vote on articles and create their own news feeds. This allows users to specify keywords to create a news feed, allowing them to organize what news they want specifically.
RSS Feeds & Google Sitemap
The homepage and each category provides an RSS feed (auto discoverable by Firefox), a Google sitemap is also provided for submission to your Google Webmaster Tools account if you wish.
Search Functionality
Full search functionality so your users can find the news they’re looking for right away.
Extensive Customization
Within the settings section of the admin panel you’ve got plenty of options. You can define how many news articles to display per category, how many popular news articles to display, edit the sites title, description and much more.
Prune Articles
You may eventually find the need to delete old articles, this is a simple process, made easy through the PHP RSS Reader admin interface.
CSS Styling
It’s easy to change the look and feel of your PHP RSS Reader, with some simple edits within the CSS file, you can adapt PHP RSS Reader into your current site design.
User Friendly Administration
The PHP RSS Reader control panel couldn’t be easier to use, it’s a simple process to kick-start your aggregator and you’re assisted every step of the way.
Simple and fast installation
It’s so easy to install PHP RSS Reader. You simply upload the PHP RSS Reader into the site directory you wish and then run the install.php and follow the steps.
Google Analytics Integration
It’s easy to integrate Google Analytics into the site. Simply enter your Analytics ID with the settings section of the Admin panel and you’ve got a powerful way to track all your stats.