Just wondering:

If I could set up a blog on say blogger, and set it so search engines couldn't crawl it, then parsed the rss feed of that blog to php and and displayed it on a static website, would that static website get the credit for displaying updated unique content?

And if I were to do this, can anyone recommend any tools to achieve it?

Thanks

5 hours ago, Red11 said:

would that static website get the credit for displaying updated unique content?

No. Because Google will know it's an RSS feed and give credit to the source. But as you have hidden the source Google will get suspicious and may penalise you.

Just host the blog as a sub domain of you static site. Or even better upgrade the static site to a CMS and put everything in one place. Google will like you a lot more.

Ok @fisicx thank you. Makes sense but was worth checking. What would be the best lightweight CMS that allows custom design/templates these days?

All of them.

But WordPress probably has the widest range of themes. There are thousands of freebies and ten of thousands of premium themes.

https://wordpress.org/themes/

It was once common practice and the tools were freely available and widely used. Feedburner - isn't that even a google tool? Is it really un google friendly?

It would be great if there was an alternative method to adding new content the didn't scupper SEO and didn't require a full-blown CMS. Just seems a quantum leap to go from an 8 file website to 30,000 plus file website with security concerns just for the occasional post/text change.

If you want to blog you need a CMS.

Just add it as a sub-domain to the main site. If you don’t allow comments or have any other way to interact with the blog there are very few security concerns (as long as the server is locked down and you use 2FA on your login).