Easy-to-use RSS to HTML toolsThe services listed below make it easy for anyone to convert their RSS feed - or someone else's - into a few lines of embeddable code. This makes it very simple for anyone with no experience of complicated programming languages and coding to publish their feeds effectively.
It really is as simple as making use of the service of your choice, entering the URL of your RSS feed, customizing how it will look on your website, and then grabbing the few lines of code given to you at the end. All you have to do then is embed the code into your web page, blog template or blog post - much as you would a YouTube video. As if by magic, you have a constant stream of fresh news.
The most common way that the creators of these services get RSS feeds onto your site is through Javascript. While this makes it easy for the non-technical among us to get up and running, the downside is that the news content you bring in via the RSS feed cannot be read by the search engine bots that scan your website content.
This is because JavaScript, when placed in the HTML code of your website, does not actually contain any news content, but rather a few lines of code that call that information from the original news source. As such, when the search engine looks for content in your JavaScript-published RSS news feed, it doesn't find anything to report.
Consequently, those keenly interested in search engine optimization might want to consider alternatives to JavaScript-based RSS to HTML solutions, such as services that make use of PHP.
RSS2HTML 
http://www.rss2html.com
- Overview: RSS2HTML takes a slightly different approach to the majority of RSS to HTML services listed here. Rather than giving you a small piece of code to embed within your web pages, RSS2HTML takes your RSS feed and creates a complete web page from it, using your layout and color scheme choices. You are then free to send your site visitors to the URL assigned to you
- Price: Free to use
- Display customization: Yes - you can select from a range of layouts and colors to create a customized design for your news page
- RSS output: RSS2HTML creates HTML web pages from your RSS feeds
- There is no need to register, as you can begin creating your RSS-driven HTML web pages directly from the RSS2HTML website
Web widget solutions
Web Widgets often make use of Javascript in addition to other programming languages, and offer another very easy way to incorporate RSS feeds directly into your website.
Rather than embedding the news stream itself into your web page, you embed a customized RSS aggregator, which you can then make changes to without having to republish it. As is the case with other JavaScript-based solutions, the news content contained within your widgets cannot be read by search engines.
RSS to HTML with feed splicing, editing and publishing
It is one thing to have a rolling RSS feed that includes everything published, and quite another to be able to combine feeds, and either automatically filter or hand-select the most relevant news items published.
The following services give you the ability to not only convert your RSS feeds into HTML, but also to combine, filter and personally edit your news content before you publish it to the web.
Advanced feed conversion
If you insist on having greater control over your feed conversion than the easy-to-use solutions covered so far, or want to make sure that your feeds are visible to the search engines, you may want to consider the following more advanced options. Without some basic knowledge of coding, you may find these alternatives a little complex and decide to enlist a webmaster to help you out.
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