diamitani/hermes-agent-skills-marketplace/rss-assist

RSS Assist

Overview

Transforms RSS feed content into engaging, SEO-optimized blog posts and curated roundups. Also helps discover, organize, and manage RSS feed collections for content aggregation workflows. Consolidates RSS Assist and RSS Aggregator.

When to Use

• Turning RSS feed items into original blog posts with SEO optimization
• Creating weekly/monthly content roundups from industry RSS feeds
• Discovering and curating RSS feed lists for a specific topic or niche
• Aggregating content from multiple feeds into a single digest or dashboard
• Setting up RSS-to-blog or RSS-to-newsletter pipelines
• Monitoring competitor or industry feeds for content inspiration

How It Works

1. Source: Connect to RSS feeds (URLs, OPML files, or feed discovery).
2. Curate: Filter and prioritize items based on relevance, recency, and quality.
3. Transform: Convert feed items into original, value-added blog content — not just reposts.
4. Optimize: Apply SEO best practices to titles, headings, meta descriptions, and structure.
5. Aggregate: Combine multiple feed sources into unified outputs.

Steps

1. Feed discovery — For a given topic/niche, suggest high-quality RSS feeds to follow. Or work with user-provided feed URLs.
2. Content triage — Review recent feed items and surface the most blog-worthy or roundup-worthy pieces.
3. Blog transformation — For each chosen item: extract the core insight, add original analysis/commentary, expand with context, structure as a proper blog post.
4. SEO optimization — Craft an SEO title (<60 chars), meta description (150-160 chars), H2/H3 structure, internal/external link suggestions, and keyword targets.
5. Roundup assembly — For digest-style outputs: group items by theme, write a unifying intro, short commentary per item, and a hook for the next edition.
6. Pipeline setup — Guide on automating: RSS → content curation → draft generation → publishing (via Zapier, Make, or custom scripts).

Common Pitfalls

• Thin content: Reposting RSS summaries verbatim adds no value and hurts SEO. Always add original insight.
• No feed triage: Curating every feed item drowns readers. Curate the top 10-20% by relevance.
• SEO stuffing: Forcing keywords into unnatural places reads badly. Write for humans first, optimize second.
• Stale feeds: RSS feeds go dormant. Periodically audit feed lists and replace dead sources.
• Copyright issues: Republishing full articles without permission is infringement. Summarize, quote sparingly, and link to the source.