RSS - Share your website to others and get Traffic
What is it ?
RSS is a family of XML file formats for Web syndication usually
used by news sites and weblogs. The abbreviation is used to
refer to the following standards:
* Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91)
* RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)
* Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
RSS technology allow internet users to subscribe to wesites that
provide RSS feed, This way you can share your websites content
(news or weblogs) by providing a RSS feed link for your visitors.
How to create RSS ?
You don't have to learn XML to have RSS feed for your site,
www.feedburner.com can create your RSS feed freely. Just type in
your sites URL then proceed to the next steps, and feedburner
will provide a link to your RSS feed, for example
http://feeds.feedburner.com/yoursite_feed_name
Now put the feed URL onto your website
In order for visitors/newsreaders to subscribe your feed, you
need to put HTML code on anywhere you like within your website
page.
- Your RSS feed link :
<#a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/yoursite_feed_name"
alt="Subscribe to my feed"><#/a>
- For NewsGator subscribers to add your feed to their list, add
below code :
<#a
href="http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/subext.aspx?url=htt
p://feeds.feedburner.com/yoursite_feed_name"> <#/a>
- For MyYahoo subscribers :
<#a
href="http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=http://feeds.feedburner.com
/yoursite_feed_name"> <#/a>
- For MyMSN subscribers :
<#a
href="http://my.msn.com/addtomymsn.armx?id=rss&ut=http://feeds.fe
edburner.com/yoursite_feed_name&ru=http://your_site_url"> <#/a>
- For Bloglines subscribers :
<#a
href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://feeds.feedburner.com/yo
ursite_feed_name"> <#/a>
- For GoogleReader subscribers :
<#a
href="http://www.google.com/reader/preview/*/feed/http://feeds.fe
edburner.com/yoursite_feed_name"> <#/a>
That's it, remove ' # ' on above code when you put them to your
HTML page and change
http://feeds.feedburner.com/yoursite_feed_name and
http://your_site_url to your own URL. You can see example result
of this code at Easy
OnlineTips at the right side of the page.
Tips
You can increase your website traffic by submitting your feed to
RSS Feed sites so readers will know that your site exist, Below
are 12 sites you can use to submit your feed free:
1. DMOZ.org
http://dmoz.org/add.html
2. Technorati.com
http://www.technorati.com/ping.html
3. BlogDigger.com
http://www.blogdigger.com/add.jsp
4. Syndic8.com
http://www.syndic8.com/suggest.php?Mode=data
5. Feedster.com
http://www.feedster.com/add.php
6. CompleteRSS.com
http://www.completerss.com/AddFeed.aspx
7. NewsIsFree.com
http://www.newsisfree.com/contact.php
8. NewsTrove.com
http://newstrove.com/suggest_site.html
9. Postami
http://www.postami.com/rss.finder/submit_feed.php
10. BlogDex.net
http://blogdex.net/add.asp
11. Daypop
http://www.daypop.com/info/submit.htm
12. Genecast.com
http://www.genecast.com/news/create.jsp