Managing RSS Feeds

Now that you're all excited about RSS feeds, I'm sure you're wondering how you can create feeds of your own. Well it's pretty easy. Creating content is the hard part. The feed part is basically just using a standard format that tells readers which parts of your page relate to the RSS bit - title, abstract, date, link and such. This is done using XML which is simply a standard way of surrounding the relevant parts of your content with tags that tell the RSS reader what part is the title, what part is the abstract, body, link, etc. If you're a Newfangled client we can set up and automate RSS feed generation for any site content you like.


If you have content that's been set up with an RSS feed, you'll want to get the feed out in front of the reading public. Unfortunately, submitting your RSS feed to all the Readers is a lot like how it used to be to submit your site to search engines. Before Google and Yahoo pretty much carved up the search engine world between themselves, submitting sites used to be a cumbersome process. Remember all the "submit your sites to 100 search engines for $xx" spam email offers? Well since RSS is still relatively new, there is no dominate feed reading tool. As a result you'll have to submit your feed to lots of different sources out there. Here's a handy page I discovered that lists 167 RSS services you can submit to - www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55.   next >