| I'm here to teach you about how RSS Feeds can | | | | sends shuttle back into space after long |
| boost traffic for your website. You may have | | | | pause (Reuters) Shuttle Discovery Blasts Into |
| heard of it, but I guarantee you are not | | | | Orbit (AP) NASA's aging workhorse returns to |
| harnessing the full power of the tool. RSS | | | | space (AFP) NASA Returns to Flight as |
| Feeds are very hot, and the marketing pro's | | | | Discovery Reaches Orbit / LiveScience.com) |
| are getting their websites listed in Google | | | | |
| within 2 to 3 days. | | | | As you can see, this is my very first RSS |
| | | | Feed. All the news stories within the last |
| What is an RSS Feed? | | | | hour regarding the shuttle launch are now |
| | | | listed for me and my visitors to read. Guess |
| RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication." | | | | what? It took less than 5 minutes, and I |
| Think of RSS this way: Whenever a writer who | | | | instantly have an RSS Feed. |
| belongs to a syndicate writes a column, they | | | | |
| don't just write it for their local paper, | | | | Why do I need one? |
| every article goes up on the newswire and any | | | | |
| paper who belongs to the syndicate can | | | | Search Engines are crawling your site and if |
| reprint it. | | | | you are not providing quality, up to the |
| | | | minute content then you are getting placed |
| First, you have to download an RSS Reader, a | | | | further down the rankings. Your competition |
| program that combines all the news online in | | | | who has this information is getting FREE |
| one place. You can download a reader for free | | | | advertising from the Search Engines who are |
| at Once you've downloaded a reader, you can | | | | placing their page 1st or 2nd when users |
| click any topic that suits your need, and | | | | search for a particular keyword. |
| only those topics will be delivered right to | | | | |
| you.. | | | | How do I put an RSS Feed on my site? |
| | | | |
| Why would I put RSS on my website? | | | | You can now place an RSS Feed on your website |
| | | | in THREE easy steps. |
| An RSS feed can be thought of like this. | | | | |
| Let's take five news sources (Yahoo, MSN, | | | | - Step 1: Search for topics that you are |
| CNN, ESPN, FOX). An RSS reader would scan all | | | | currently interested in (use Yahoo). |
| five news sources and take each headline and | | | | |
| create a summary of the article. Now, you can | | | | When you see an orange RSS or XML box like |
| actually sort the news stories and have only | | | | the one above, you know that article is |
| the ones you are interested in delivered | | | | compatible with a feed. Copy the URL of the |
| right to your website from all five news | | | | webpage. |
| sources. Search Engines are crawling websites | | | | |
| and looking for fresh content. If you have an | | | | - Step 2: Go to and paste the URL in the |
| RSS Feed, you are getting up to the minute | | | | digest for them to create a two line code for |
| news stories. These constantly change | | | | your webpage. You can also copy and paste the |
| whenever a new story comes out. The Search | | | | long page of code if you understand |
| Engines will give you a higher Page Rank | | | | programming. |
| because it thinks your page is updated on a | | | | |
| regular basis. | | | | - Step 3: In Frontpage, Go to Insert - a web |
| | | | component - html markup and paste the two or |
| How do I add one to my website? | | | | three line script that RSS Digest gave you. |
| | | | Check it out! Your first RSS Feed! Try it |
| I tried an RSS Feed for the first time, and | | | | yourself right now, create your first RSS |
| it took less than five minutes. Here's what | | | | feed in under five minutes, FREE! The only |
| it looks like: | | | | way you can truly learn about them is for you |
| | | | to JUMP in FEET FIRST! |
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