RSS Feed Filtering by Keywords: How to Include or Exclude Content

• Created : Apr, 18, 2016
• Last Updated: Apr, 1, 2026

Easy Steps

Here's how to apply keyword filters to feed content

1. Open your rss widget for editing (or create a new widget)
2. Click on the > Advanced settings of the General section
3. Scroll to the Keyword Filters options
4. Add include or exclude keywords as required. Keywords can be a single word or phrase and should be separated with a semicolon ;
5. Click Save & Get code button for save your changes into the widget

What is RSS Feed Filtering?

RSS feed filtering is the process of including or excluding content from a feed based on specific keywords.

For example:

• Show only articles that contain the word “AI”
• Hide posts that include “sports”
• Display only job listings with “remote”

This helps you turn a broad RSS feed into a focused, relevant content stream.

Filtering with keywords using RSS

Using Include or Exclude keyword filters

FeedWind has a feed filtering system that allows users to apply include and/or exclude filter content using specific keywords. For RSS (as with all widgets), keywords can be separated in the following ways:

• Using  a semicolon (;), as in: global warming; greenhouse gas; antarctic melt;  co2;
• Using “AND” to include relevant keywords, as in: “natural AND gas AND technology” This will include articles that contain each of the three terms.
• Using “OR”, as in: “cars OR vehicles OR automobiles” This will include content that has either of the three terms.
• Using the ‘exact match’ option, as in: “U.S. President” This matches the exact text “U.S. President” but not something similar, like “President of the U.S.”.
• AND/OR filters can be used alongside each other, as in: “experts OR government AND taxes” This will include articles with the term ‘experts’, as well as articles containing both ‘government’ and ‘taxes’.

Advanced Use Cases

• Build niche content hubs
  • Create highly focused content sections for specific topics
• Automated newsletters
  • Use filtered feeds to generate curated email content
• Competitor monitoring
  • Track mentions of competitor names or products
• Trend tracking
  • Follow emerging keywords across multiple feeds

Best Practices for RSS Filtering

• Use specific but not overly narrow keywords
• Combine include and exclude filters for better control
• Test different keyword variations
• Regularly review filtered results
• Avoid over-filtering (can reduce content volume)

RSS feed filtering is a simple but powerful way to control content quality and relevance. Instead of showing everything from a feed, you can curate exactly what your audience sees.

Whether you’re building a content hub, monitoring trends, or creating automated feeds, keyword filtering helps you turn raw data into meaningful content.

Related posts

Changing a Link Target in 3rd Party Content

Contents1 Copyright law applies to a link target2 Why we don’t offer a link editing feature3 Disabling links is...

Beef Up Your Titles

Contents1 Introducing a new feature to allow you to make titles bold in your FeedWind widgets.1.1 MAIN TITLE BOLD STYLING1.2...

FeedWind Analytics Feature

FeedWind’s Analytics feature is a mechanism for users to tally the amount of impressions received by a widget or...