What You Should Know About

RSS is a standard for syndicating content on the Internet. RSS feeds are used in many different ways to distribute all types of content over the Internet. Benefits for individuals to subscribe to RSS feeds has resulted in a rapid growth and adoption rate. Software and tools have made RSS feed creation and management easy, even for non-technical persons who also have gas-driven growth of RSS feeds.
How to create RSS It is no longer necessary to manually create an RSS feed. There are a number of WYSIWYG software programs available, which simplifies the creation of an RSS feed. This means that webmasters really don't need to understand the code and details about the RSS specification to create an RSS feed. Such a product is FeedForAll, where you can easily create, edit and publish RSS feeds. Both Mac and Windows versions are available at http://www.feedforall.com.
Feeds can also be manually designed from scratch as well as, and there is a simple tutorial that will walk you through the process at http://www.make-rss-feeds.com/making-an-rss-feed.htm.
And if you have existing content in a database that you want to include in an RSS feed, you can use a PHP script which SQL2RSS to extract data from the database and fill out an RSS feed.
All these things will simplify the process and contribute to the creation of an RSS feed. Transfer When RSS feed is created, it must be transferred to the server home page, as is commonly done using FTP (File Transfer Protocol) software. If you use RSS feed creation software, it will have a built-in FTP client for this purpose. Otherwise, you can use a different FTP client to upload RSS feeds to the website. Validate When you have built a feed, it should be validated. If you use software (such as FeedForAll), it may have a built-in validator to help you assure that the feed is correct and correct. If you build the feed by hand, must ensure that you are using a sort of validator to ensure feed formed correctly. A feed that contains invalid syntax will not be readable by many of the RSS readers so that validation is very important. RSS promotion After you have created, transmitted and validated an RSS feed, you need to your website visitors should know that it is available. There are a number of ways to promote your RSS feed. The more made an effort to promote the feed more quickly becomes popular. In order to send a signal to your website visitors, as an RSS feed is available as content related to the home page, includes most webmasters colorful graphics on your Web site. It has become standard that nearly all Web sites with RSS feeds available use colorful graphics such as flags to indicate that RSS feeds are available for specific content. The Flag was originally standardized as light orange rectangles but as the popularity has grown, webmasters have bent the rules a little and have been more creative with their flag, and graphics. Use colorful graphics that work within your website design to indicate that you have an RSS feed available.
In addition, many RSS feed readers and aggregators to automatically detect the presence of an RSS feed on your site if you are adding a little bit of code in the header field in an HTML page ....
[link rel = "alternate" type = "application/rss + xml" title = "rss" href = "http://www.yourdomain.com/rss.xml"]
Make sure to replace http://www.yourdomain.com/rss.xml "" with the actual URL to the RSS feed and replace the "[" and "]"<" less-than="" and="" "="">"in square brackets with" greater-than symbols.
In order to increase the exposure of an RSS feed, it should also be submitted to the RSS search engines and directories. Just as you would send the URL of a Web site or a Web page to a search engine, you must send the link to the actual RSS feed located on your site to the various RSS directories. There is a long list of RSS directories at http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-submission.htm. Ongoing RSS Feed-maintenance Feed maintenance is a very important aspect to the RSS feeds. You want to continuously add to your RSS feed for giving subscribers a new and changing content and information. Otherwise, they lose interest and find information elsewhere. As a rapidly growing number of content sources, new and old, add RSS as a key distribution channel, and as more and more people use RSS news readers and aggregators to keep themselves informed, the ability to maintain high exposure and visibility gradually switched from complete attention on major search engines and content optimization techniques to a growing awareness of RSS feed directories and search Tools. About the author:
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editing and publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages marketing for RecordForAll http://www.recordforall.com audio recording and editing software.