What You Should Know About

RSS or Really Simple Syndication is as it is commonly known, a technology that gives webmasters the ability to easily distribute and publish syndicated content on the Internet. It looks as if all internet businesses now have RSS feeds available; at least do your competitors. You have finally made the decision, you must have a. Where do you start?Step in creating an RSS feed

1. Build a Feed)

There are a number of desktop and Web applications available that make feed creation easy. I urge everyone who creates a feed using a. Although not overly complicated and can hand-coding an RSS feed will be a little confusing and time consuming. Most desktop applications for building a feed includes a wizard and contact-sensitive help, simplifying the process of creating a feed. After a few simple steps in a wizard generally will produce an RSS feed in just a few minutes.

Publishers can control what information is syndicated in RSS feed, so that end it is the Publisher's decision on whether or not to include teaser copy or full articles. Consider what you are trying to accomplish and who your target audience is when building of the diet.Software to build a feed-http://www.feedforall.com
Tutorial for creating feed by hand usingXML-http://www.make-rss-feeds.com 2.) Transfer the Feedon your Server when you have built an RSS feed, you must transfer the feed to your server. This can be done by using a standard FTP client (if it is not built into the software, feed creation). The diet is usually located at the domain's root directory like this: http://www.mydomain.com/nameoffeed.xml, but as long as you know where it is it doesn't matter, really.3.) displays the feed on your site uses a graphic in some varieties to indicate to site visitors that an RSS feed containing content related to the home page is available, include a colorful graphic on the site. It has become a standard that nearly all websites that have RSS feeds available use colorful graphics such as flags as indicators which RSS feeds are available for specific content. Flags were initially bright orange rectangles but as the popularity has grown, webmasters have bent the rules a little. Note Page has done a free online RSS graphic tool available, allowing users to quickly customize buttons by selecting the text on the button and button color scheme. When the color and text is specified, the program creates a custom graphics immediately. Webmasters can easily match the format for the RSS button to a Web site theme. Graphics experience is not required. Simply select alternative colors and insert text to personalize RSS feed graphics. The RSS graphics tool can be used by clicking the following URL http://www.feedforall.com/public/rss-graphic-tool.htm or choose ready made graphics fom: http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-graphics.htm. 4.) Include information in the HTML Web page so RSS readers Auto-Detect your Feedafter publishing an RSS feed it is important that visitors know that the feed is available. News readers automatically detect RSS on a website, if you add a little bit of code in the header field in aHTML page. Make sure to replace http://www.yourdomain.com/rss.xml with the URL to the RSS feed. 5.) can display the feed content on a sitecontent in an RSS feed can be added to a Web site, gives visitors an alternative method to display the contents. The information also helps increase the search engine interest. Display the feed as HTML can be achieved. Delivers fresh content on a regular basis will encourage site visitors return.

Tutorial for displaying Feeds-http://www.small-business-software.net/display-rss.htm

6.) Submit feed to RSS directories and search enginesas a rapidly growing number of content sources, new and old, migrate or add RSS as a key distribution channel, and as more people use RSS news readers and aggregators to keep themselves informed, the ability to maintain high exposure and visibility is shifting gradually from complete attention on major search engines and content optimization techniques to a growing awareness about RSS feed directories and search tools.
Increase the exposure of an RSS feed it should be submitted to the RSS search engines and directories. This can be done manually. 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 feed located on your site to RSS directories. There is a long list of RSS directories at http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-submission.htm. If you prefer to automate the submission process try RSS submit at: http://www.dummysoftware.com/rsssubmit.html. An evaluation version is available.
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 Note Page http://www.notepage.net a wireless text messaging software company.