Choosing the Content You Want to Syndicate
Post By. FlansPage
So you’re Interested in Syndication but aren’t exactly sure what you should be syndicating. There’s really no hard and fast rule here. However, keep in mind that anything you plan to Syndicate via RSS should be unique, of value to a given audience, and something that is updated on a regular basis. Some individuals syndicate their content by placing an RSS feed on their homepage. As the website is updated and a new feed is produced, content is sent directly to subscribers. Others choose to provide a feed of specific content pages on their site. The choice is yours.
So How Do you Create an RSS Feed?
All RSS feeds are written using a code type called XML. If you’re not familiar with XML don’t let that scare you. I’ll provide the specific code you need and instructions on what to do with it. To begin, you’ll need to create an RSS file that contains a title, description, and link URL. This information will be used by the RSS reader when individuals subscribe to your RSS feed. I’ve created an RSS feed on my articles page allowing subscribers to receive new articles each time they are published. You can too-simply follow these steps.
All RSS feeds are written using a code type called XML. If you’re not familiar with XML don’t let that scare you. I’ll provide the specific code you need and instructions on what to do with it. To begin, you’ll need to create an RSS file that contains a title, description, and link URL. This information will be used by the RSS reader when individuals subscribe to your RSS feed. I’ve created an RSS feed on my articles page allowing subscribers to receive new articles each time they are published. You can too-simply follow these steps.
1. Go to your Start Menu in the lower left-hand corner or your computer screen.
Click on All Programs and navigate to Accessories. There you’ll find an option called Notepad. Notepad is a simple text editor that you will use to develop your RSS script.
2. Write the RSS script.
which contains information about your website or content page and information about the content you’ll be syndicating. To do so, type the following into Notepad. Replace the bold content with your own website’s information.
<?This RSS feed should be viewed using an RSS Reader or RSS Aggregator. Firefox users do this by clicking on the "Subscribe to feed" icon.
Feed URL: http://www.marketingscoop.com/
<channel>
<title>Marketing Articles</title>
<title>http://www.marketingscoop.com/articles.htm</title>
<description>Marketing articles covering a variety of marketing
topics</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>MarketingScoop.com</copyright>
<item>
<title>How to market your small business</title>
<title>http://www.marketingscoop.com/market-small-business.htm</title>
<description>If you own a small business, you probably don’t have a lot to spend on marketing. These simple techniques will help you generate more referrals than you can handle.
</description>
</item>
</channel>
</RSS>
That’s it. As noted above, be sure to replace the content presented in bold type with your own. When you’re done save your file by selecting File then Save As from the top bar in the Notepad window. Note: Name your file with a (e.g., http://www.marketingscoop.com/rssfeed). Be sure not to use any ampersands or quotes in your code as this may cause an error. XML requires ampersands to be replaced in the code with "&" and quotes with ""." The best advice I can give is just don’t include quotes or ampersands and you won’t have any coding issues.
3. Save, upload, and validate your.
After saving your RSS file via Notepad, upload your. http://validator.w3.org/feed and enter your feed URL. The URL of your feed is simply the URL of the .rssfeed, simply enter your website’s URL, followed by /rssfeed.
4. Place your RSS code on your website.
The best way to do this is to copy an RSS buttonand include a link to the RSS feed you just created. You can grab the RSS or XML image by simply visiting a website like MarketingScoop.com/articles.htm and right-mouse click the image. Save the image (give it a name like RSS.gif) and copy it onto your server. The code should look like this:
<a href="http://www.yourwebsite.com/rssfeed As usual, replace the information above with your own feed link and image link.
5. Subscribe to your own feed.
After you’ve uploaded all of your pages to your live site or testing server, open Internet Explorer and click on your own RSS button. You should be taken to a dialogue box that asks if you’d like to subscribe to your feed. Subscribe and confirm that the feed has been added to your list of RSS feeds (it should appear in a dialogue box on the left hand side of the page).
After you’ve uploaded all of your pages to your live site or testing server, open Internet Explorer and click on your own RSS button. You should be taken to a dialogue box that asks if you’d like to subscribe to your feed. Subscribe and confirm that the feed has been added to your list of RSS feeds (it should appear in a dialogue box on the left hand side of the page).
Note :
If you’re using Firefox, you will only receive a text page when clicking on your RSS button. Those using the Firefox browser can click on a small icon that resides on their browser navigation bar to add your feed. Additionally, the text file contains their feed URL, which can also be used.
6. Ping aggregators to let them know that you’ve created an RSS feed.
Whenever you want to syndicate new content, you’ll need to update your.
6. Ping aggregators to let them know that you’ve created an RSS feed.
In order to let the web know that your feed is up and running, you must give them a ping. This is very easy to do-just go to http://pingomatic.com and choose the appropriate sites to inform. Select blog-related sites if you’re a blog and non-blog-related sites for other content.
Complete the information and ping. A final note :Whenever you want to syndicate new content, you’ll need to update your.
Another syndication service you can use is Feedblitz. I’ve implemented Feedblitz so that users can receive updates to my blog, article pages, and websites by registering with only a name and email address. Once subscribed, registrants receive an update via email each time I’ve added information to my blog or website. Feedblitz also offers syndication services. This is a great option if you are new to RSS feeds and would like to have your feeds accessible from a single location.
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