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[dlingner]

It Seems that RSS would be valuable to branding yourself and your site. I have a few questions about it.

1.) How would I make an RSS from my site, so others could use my info.

2.) How do I set it up so I can have live feeds from select sites to mine.

3.) I am looking for good RSS feeds... for my site... outdoor sports news, and Christian news. I have not found any good RSS feed directories.

Dave

[Scottie]

Hi Dave-

Check out this page at the Cre8asite Resource Directory on RSS info.

[dlingner]

Scottie, very good site, thank you. Found some feeds that were just what I was looking for. Great addition to my site. I will let you know when I launch the "new look" site, using the feeds.

[Grumpus]

Thanks for the plug Scottie.

Finding RSS feeds for showing on your site is pretty tough nowadays. Most RSS indexes don't have any guage for quality or anything like that, so you're pretty much stuck looking through hundreds of feeds that aren't updated very often or are otherwise mundane. The best thing to do, I guess, is to just get a feed reader and watch them for a week or two before deciding which ones to syndicate.

Another good way of finding feeds is to check the bottom (usually) of each site that you enjoy and see if that orange "XML" button (or just plain old "XML Feed" text) appears somewhere. It's not usually in a very high profile place, but a lot of sites are getting into XML feeds nowadays. Chances are, if the site is good, the XML feed will be similarly good.

Good luck!

G.

[Jill]

Additionally, you may want to read this guest article from the High Rankings® Advisor: How To Get Your Web Content Syndicated.

Jill

[Googlewhacked]

FYI, an RSS aggregator that I have found especially appealing is www.desktopsidebar.com. In addition to an RSS reader, it has the ability to hook into Winamp, Outlook, and can even keep tabs on your PC's system resources.

[bwelford]

I really support the notion of using RSS feeds. I'm finding this a particularly effective way of getting visibility before the widest possible audience. It's very customer-centric since the reader only takes the feed when he, she or it wants it. It's very much better than e-mailing to an audience since then you are inevitably intrusive and may be kept out from legimate recipients by their increasingly stringent anti-spam measures.

[orangejack]

This is my first post, and unfortunately it's on an old thread. But I thought I'd start here.

I'm wondering what are some other good RSS feeds out there for SEO, Marketing, etc. I admit that I never was "into" RSS until recently. I added this forum to my feed and that's how I got more into it. I knew about the forum, but didn't make it a habit until the RSS feed helped me get into it.

So now I'm wondering who else offers useful feeds. I know Ralph Wilson and MarketingProfs offer it, but that's about all I've found useful.

[BrianR]

Welcome to the forum, orangejack - hope you find it useful.

I'm afraid I don't know of any SEM RSS feeds other than the two you mentioned in your post. However, somebody else is bound to come along and add to that list pretty soon...

BrianR

[BrianR]

At least, that normally happens. Perhaps after the weekend...

BrianR

[Randy]

There's a discussion around here somewhere --can't remember for the life of me where...the Pub maybe?-- regarding SEO/SEM Newsletters that folks read and recommend.

That's where I would start looking. No clue how many of them offer RSS feeds, but it's becoming more commonplace every day. Lots of those folks offer at least some type of daily Blog or something of the sort that you may be able to tap into.

[ghergich]

I am going to make myself an RSS feed for my seo resource site, so thanks for all the info. Here is my question, should I put every article I ever make for my SEO site in one channel in a long list. Or should I only put about 5 and udpate every so often with new ones...or just add a new article to my list. I have like 20 now. What do you all suggest.

[ghergich]

Could someone who has done this before let me know? I would love to make one today.

[nedguy]

Not sure if this helps, ghergich

I have three very simple feeds (IDs 34429, 34430, and 34592 on syndic8.com if you want to look) which I limit to six items each. They are short shelf-life news items so I just rotate the stack - pop a new one on the top and remove one from the bottom. That's just the way I prefer it.

If your articles have a long shelf-life you may want to leave them in the xml doc for longer. So the document could take on database proportions.

NG

[ghergich]

They are Seo Articles so I may just place all of them inside of one doc.. and take out old ones as they become less relevant...while adding new ones all the time, unless someone thinks this may not be the best idea thanks for the response