RSS Response
By | April 2, 2009
Big Companies are using it!
Governments are Using it!
Small businesses are making $$$ using it!
Are you using RSS?
Discover how you can deliver your messages with a 100% delivery guarantee, and make your Autoresponder messages spam-proof
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Hello world!
By | April 2, 2009
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Topics: Products | No Comments »
RSS Response
By | April 2, 2009
Big Companies are using it!
Governments are Using it!
Small businesses are making $$$ using it!
Are you using RSS?
Discover how you can deliver your messages with a 100% delivery guarantee, and make your Autoresponder messages spam-proof
[...]
Topics: MSI Products | No Comments »
Hello world!
By | April 2, 2009
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Topics: MSI Products | No Comments »
RSS Response
By | April 2, 2009
Big Companies are using it!
Governments are Using it!
Small businesses are making $$$ using it!
Are you using RSS?
Discover how you can deliver your messages with a 100% delivery guarantee, and make your Autoresponder messages spam-proof
[...]
Topics: MSI Products | No Comments »
Hello world!
By | April 2, 2009
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Topics: MSI Products | No Comments »
RSS Response
By | April 2, 2009
Big Companies are using it!
Governments are Using it!
Small businesses are making $$$ using it!
Are you using RSS?
Discover how you can deliver your messages with a 100% delivery guarantee, and make your Autoresponder messages spam-proof
[...]
Topics: MSI Products | No Comments »
Hello world!
By | April 2, 2009
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Topics: MSI Products | No Comments »
Free RSS Resources: How Do You Generate An RSS Feed?
By | March 11, 2009
There are several ways to generate an RSS feed:
1) Directly from your blog software (if you blog), optionally enhanced by FeedBurner or a similar service. This is how I currently generate all of my feeds.
If you haven’t chosen your blog software yet, I highly recommend WordPress. It’s got a great feature set, it’s been around long enough to have a lot of the bugs fixed, lots and lots of loyal users of other blog software have moved to WordPress because it’s so much better, and it’s free, even for commercial use. It also seamlessly supports audio enclosures (podcasting) in your RSS feed.
If you need a place to host your blog and feed, iPowerWeb is by far the best low-cost service I’ve ever seen. Everything just works, they provide great statistics, site features and documentation, lots of storage and email accounts, proper and current PHP and MySQL support (necessary for many blogs including WordPress) and their tech support folks are responsive and follow up to make sure any issue gets resolved. WordPress installs and runs like a dream on iPowerWeb. With some other hosting providers, I’ve had to rewrite PHP code and place files in all sorts of unnatural places on my site to get it to work, due to silly restrictions and limitations of the hosting providers. I’ve tried several low-cost and medium-cost hosting services and now would never use anyone but iPowerWeb.
You can get your blog’s domain name from iPowerWeb as part of your hosting package, or from any other provider. I’ve had excellent service from GoDaddy for domain names (it usually takes only two or three hours from my order to having an active, redirected domain name live on the net, as opposed to waiting several days from some providers). Stick with iPowerWeb for web hosting services though.
2) Directly from your blog service (such as Blogger), if you use one.
3) By using one of many free or paid third-party RSS feed generation products, which generate feeds from sets of text items or files.
4) Directly from your full-featured autoresponder email service (like Aweber), if you use one in your business to handle your opt-in email list and follow-up messages. That service should provide you with the option (at no extra cost) of automatically generating an RSS feed (from their site) whose content consists of the same emails which you’re already sending to your email list through the autoresponder service.
5) By hand with a simple text editor, if you’re familiar enough with the syntax of HTML and RSS/XML, have a lot of patience and are a careful typist. This gets old really quickly, unless you have a very limited set of text-only messages which you need to get into an RSS feed in a hurry, and you don’t have any of the other tools above available to you.
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Free RSS Resources: Which Version of RSS Do I Use?
By | March 11, 2009
Just like anything else in the high-tech industry, the standards for RSS are evolving quickly. For now, most programs which generate feeds seem to have settled on RSS 2.0, though RSS 0.9x and RSS 1.x variants are still around. There’s also a similar standard called Atom, which is used by Blogger and some of the other blog services. Most feed readers will understand and display all of these different formats, and will in fact deal with Atom feeds even though the programs are called “RSS” feed readers.
Many blog software packages and other tools will generate RSS feeds for several standards simultaneously. For example, WordPress generates RSS 2.0, Atom and RSS 0.9x feeds simultaneously, providing a different URL for each standard, as well as an “auto-discovery” mechanism for feed readers which are capable of figuring out which one to use and where to find it. FeedBurner, a free feed enhancer and re-publisher, will take in a live feed created for one standard and put out the same content in multiple feeds for multiple standards (depending upon the needs of the readers who subscribe to your feed through FeedBurner).
To help those of us who create feeds, there’s a free service called FeedValidator which tells you whether the feed you’re generating conforms to all of the rules of a particular standard or not. Some feed readers, feed directories and search engines will only accept properly-formatted feeds while others don’t seem to care.
The bottom line is that this is an easily-solvable problem: just use a program or service which provides your feed to the world in a variety of standard formats.
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Brought to you by Free RSS Resources, the web’s most up-to-date collection of RSS feed directories, podcast directories, blog directories, blog pingers and RSS marketing tools, powered by iPowerWeb. Come learn how to increase your blog and website traffic, and profit by setting up and marketing your own RSS feed. My free 2005 e-book shows how.
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