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