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Article #92: How to Add RSS Feeds in Five Minutes or Less

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






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