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If you mean syndicating their content through their RSS feeds, I would definitely ask permission. But if you mean just doing a list of links to others' RSS feeds I don't see why that would be a problem. Though I don't really see that point of that. Why not just link to the site itself?

If you're posting a full feed, then you're a scraper/spammer that we all hate.  :)

Excerpts with links back wouldn't be bad.

Post edited 11:49 am – January 27, 2012 by Dividend Ninja

Backlinks (i.e. blogroll) = good

Duplicate Content (i.e. RSS Scraping – even a snippet) = bad

Matt76Allen – Definitely you would want to do backlinks to help your fellow bloggers. In fact if you scraped my feeds I would ban your IP. There is no advantage to scraping feeds since it causes duplicate content, which Google then penalizes both sites for – especially the scraper.

Hope that helps explain it. Cheers!

Thanks everybody.  This does give me some clarification.  I guess what I was considering might be considered "scraping," and I don't want to be one of those bad guys.  What I had in mind was a short syndicated RSS reader with maybe a snippet, like the Title and maybe first few lines of a post.  Clicking on the feed would then of course lead to the original blog.  My purpose/intent was going to be mainly to benefit myself, so I could more easily scan through several blogs by looking at one page and click on only the stories that spark my interest.  Obviously, others could benefit from this as well. Not trying to steal content, just trying to create an easy one-page view way to see recent posts by several other bloggers without having to visit each and every blog.  

Plan B – maybe I will create the page with an example feed for my blog, then put out an invite through a new forum post for others who would like theirs included.  Not sure when I'll get to this though, as I will be spending a good portion of my weekend working on TurboTax.

Thanks again.  Any other suggestions are welcome.  

Wow, this one (so far short) post has had excellent response from seasoned bloggers.  RSS scraping = bad, back links = good.  I get the part about the link juice, but this leads me to a different question.

How does encouraging people to subscribe to RSS feeds, which I think I understand is desirable, help us if the Googles or Feedburners get the feed juice?  

ThadP @ thadthoughts.com said:

Wow, this one (so far short) post has had excellent response from seasoned bloggers.  RSS scraping = bad, back links = good.  I get the part about the link juice, but this leads me to a different question.

 

How does encouraging people to subscribe to RSS feeds, which I think I understand is desirable, help us if the Googles or Feedburners get the feed juice?  

Encouraging people to subscribe to your RSS feed doesn't help you directly in regards to link juice.  It does help you retain readers who ideally will visit your actual site sometimes and perhaps even link to a post or two of yours that they like.  If people don't subscribe to your RSS there is a chance that they will forget your blog exists.  I know that I have read good blog posts and then when I wanted to read them again I'd forgotten what blog they were on.