Step By Step Guide to Creating Your Own RSS Feed
For Syndicating Your Content
RSS
Feed Syndication and Other Resources
RSS is powerful and several people have interpreted
it in different way. Some want to syndicate their content with RSS
feeds, others want to put useful and fresh content on their pages
to look attractive to the search engine spiders and site visitors.
Which one do you want to explore first?
Learn more about RSS
These guides cover the basic concept of RSS in
great detail. They help you understand RSS technology, why you should
use RSS, how you can syndicate your content for maximum business
success and how you can benefit by using others' RSS feeds on your
site.
We recommend these resources if you want to learn
more about RSS.
Business Success with RSS
Yes, you can make more money from your online
business if you use RSS. Here is a storehouse of great ideas that
you can adapt and employ quickly to get even more successful.
RSS Readers
Internet Explorer does not support RSS feeds at
the time of writing this. You need a good RSS feed reader before
you can see the feed.
- FeedDemon
is an excellent feed reader. You need to pay after the initial
trial period.
- RSS Reader
is available for Windows 98/NT/ME/2000/XP/2003.
- FeedReader
is FREE and available for Windows 95 and later versions.
- NewsGator
is a free RSS Reader plug-in for Microsoft Outlook.
Syndicate Your RSS Feeds
If you can write great content, be it articles,
newsletters or press releases, you should absolutely syndicate your
RSS feeds for maximum exposure to your content. This method also
helps you get some good incoming links to your website for greater
impact on your search engine optimization efforts.
Get your RSS feed listed on these directories
and people will locate your feed faster.
Creating RSS Feeds
You have already seen how you can quickly and
easily create your RSS Feeds manually (have you downloaded and read
the FREE RSS guide?). However
if you prefer to use a software or an online tool to create and
maintain your feeds, here is a list of some good resources.
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RSS Turbo by Jeff Alderson and Rodney Rumford. Easy, interactive
feed creation.
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Feedburner helps you to track the hits to your feed and also
include some affiliate ads along with the feed.
Using other RSS Feeds on your site for search engine success
Showing other feeds on your site helps you to
get fresh content which impress the visitors and search engine spiders
alike. Check out these tools that make it easy.
Tip: Don't use Javascript
based system if you want to get search engine advantage too.
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RSS Equalizer pulls others’ RSS feeds into your website
and helps you to get better search engine rankings through dynamic
and fresh content.
- Excellent
article on using RSS feed for search engine ranking success.
Blogging Resources
Blogs are touted as your most powerful tool to
publish your thoughts and fresh content related to your niche topic.
Search engines love blogs so much, they quickly gobble up all the
links in your blogs and spider those sites too.
- WordPress – FREE
and widely acclaimed. I use it for my blogs too.
- Movable Type –
Commercial, very popular.
- Blogger
allows you to create your own Blog in minutes (FREE). Google owns
this.
-
Blog Profit Ideas Exposed by Dr. Mani. This ebook explains
how you can profit from Blogs.
RSS enabled Browsers
Other Useful Resources
-
Site Build It helps you to develop a rewarding web business
without bothering about any technical stuff. They have already
adopted RSS for their own site and plan to offer in-built RSS
compatibility on all client sites very soon. Highly recommended!
(Don't miss the SPECIAL BUY-1-GET-1-FREE PROMOTION running
till Dec 25th 2004)
- Top 10 Ranking
on Google, Yahoo & MSN – 100% guaranteed My own
site offering SEO services.
Disclaimer: Please remember that
I have recommended all these resources in good faith. I know most
of the owners to be reputed Internet marketers and reliable service
providers. However, I have not personally used some of these products
and services and you should check the suitability of individual
offer for yourself before investing.
I will appreciate learning about your experience
(even if it is bad) with these products and services. Write to me
at feedback AT RSStop10 DOT com.
(Arun Agrawal, author)
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