RSS publishing for webmasters
Since the recent rise in interest in RSS there has been a slew
of RSS sites and RSS software. RSS has been proclaimed as the
next big thing. There has been many wild claims about the
benefits of publishing an RSS feed such as it will generate
floods of traffic to your website.
If you have never heard of RSS publishing then you might want to
take a look at this RSS
Publishing FAQ to get yourself up to speed. More and more
webmasters are starting to publish an RSS feed, those of you who
are bloggers will be lucky enough to have RSS publishing
capabilities built into their blogging software. The rest of us
will have to rely on third party software.
The amount of RSS publishing applications has grown recently due
to the demand from users needing simple to use software. You can
of course edit an RSS file in a text editor which is relatively
straight forward but time consuming. This is the reason that
most webmasters need RSS publishing software, most webmasters
want to be able to publish an RSS feed with has little hassle as
possible.
There are a number of applications that I am aware of and I have
listed them for you at http://newsn
iche.com/rss-publishing-tools.asp. Most of the titles I have
seen are free and this is a good way to familiarise yourself
with RSS publishing and test out the benefits of having an RSS
feed.
All of these applications are great except for one thing.
Publishing an RSS feed means using another piece of software
where you need to cut and paste your content for it to be
published. Do not get me wrong, this additional software is a
great time saver for webmasters, but what they really need is an
application that is integrated into their existing web
publishing software. I am sure this will happen soon for many of
the major titles but it would be nice to see some independent
software writers produce an all inclusive publishing system.
I realise that every webmaster has different needs so such a
piece of RSS publishing software may not be for everyone but it
would sure make RSS publishing a whole lot more attractive to
webmasters. By the way if you are using such a piece of software
or you are a programmer currently writing RSS publishing
software then let me know at rss{at}newsniche{dot}com.