how to create an RSS feed for ANY site
RSS stands for “Real Simple Syndication” and people use “RSS feeds” to distribute and gather information from throughout the Internet. If you have content on your website or blog that you are continually updating, you can set up an RSS feed for the information.
Subscribers to your RSS feed can then receive your updates via their “RSS feed reader”. That still sounds confusing doesn’t it? Let me go further into it…
Let’s say you are into celebrity gossip and you love to know what’s going on all the time (I know, it’s shallow – but the best example I could think of that the majority of readers can relate to). Every day you visit PerezHilton.com, popsugar.com, tmz.com and many of the other celebrity gossip sites. You could spend all day sifting through the many posts and all the content to get to the information that you personally are interested in. With an RSS feed reader, you could be updated continually with the posts from all of the sites in one place and click on only the ones you would like to read.
I’m sure you’ve seen the standard orange “RSS” symbol. Usually, where you see that symbol, that’s where you’ll click to “Subscribe” to a feed. When you subscribe to a feed, you can then send the feed to your “Reader”.
RSS FEED SOFTWARE FOR CREATING YOUR OWN FEEDS
Now if you would rather not create the feed manually, there are some tools to help you create your feeds. Gotta love software automation.
Here are some of the more popular picks
FEEDFORALL: feed creation tool that allows webmasters to create, edit and publish RSS feeds.
LISTGARDEN RSS FEED GENERATOR PROGRAM
Creates and maintains RSS feeds Produces both XML and optional human-readable companion HTML Open source (FREE) Requires no knowledge of XML or the RSS data format
RSS BUILDER is an easy to use FREE service to create RSS feeds for your web site. It provides a simple interface that lets you add topics, links and content, and then publish the RSS (v2.0) feed to your web server with one click!
HOW TO DISPLAY RSS FEEDS ON YOUR SITE
Whether you have every intention of creating your own RSS feeds, it is a great way to keep fresh content on your site, by grabbing other RSS feeds.
With RSS feeds you can inform such users about any updated content , without the user actually having to visit each and every one of their favorite web sites to find out whether there is something new, as far as the content goes. Similarly avid users of the internet also like to keep track of product prices and also their availability. These types of customers can be targeted with RSS feeds and can be informed as and when there is a change. All these aspects make RSS feeds a great way to attract new customers and also to encourage repeat sales.
