I am thinking of starting a RSS News feed section in my forum. That particular forum would be appropriately marked as a News section and would likely add 3-4 news snippets every week.

However I was wondering if doing this would actually be beneficial for my forum?

Has any one done some thing of this sort?

If yes whats the user response you have got and have people actually participated in these auto generated threads?

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Well.. It all depends on what you are after and what feeds you find.
I've found that users don't generally reply to RSS post, but it will bring in spiders. Once your indexed, you may be able to get some visits from those pages, and hopefully in turn, a few will sign up.

I think it's a decent way for a new forum to get indexed/spidered but I haven't found that users reply to the post.

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I use my own RSS feed hack, not vB. However, the result is similar.

Anyway, once in a while I get a post from a member, but rarely.

As Brandon points out though, the SEs seem to like those threads.

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What I actually had in mind was to get news feeds for motorcycles related news and post it in a sub category under the motorcycles section in my forum.

I am not really looking to get indexed through this, since my forum is already ranking ok in google and has quite a few pages indexed. Add to this, the feeds would only be a couple of lines of the news, not the entire article and I was also thinking of auto pruning them after 30-60 days.

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