Using eCrater RSS Feeds

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Using RSS Feeds to Promote your eCrater store

Every eCrater store have multiple rss feeds available. Learn how to use these RSS feeds to promote your store items on other websites such as Squidoo, Zimbio, and blogs.

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RSS and eCrater Links 

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Free Online Marketplace & Free Ecommerce Website Builder - get a free web store, free online marketplace, free ecommerce website builder, free online store.
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Helping small online merchants network and grow their business.
FeedBurner
Allows weblog owners and podcasters the ability to manage their RSS feeds and track usage of their subscribers

Finding the RSS Feeds 

RSS Feeds for Categories
To find the RSS Feed for an entire category open the category page and find the rss button at the bottom of the page.


Generate RSS Feeds from Search
To generate an rss feed from a search in your store first select "advanced search". In the advanced search form insert the criteria you would like to have displayed in your rss feed, then click search.

The rss feed button will be at the bottom of the search result page.

Using eCrater RSS Feed on Squidoo 

You can easily display your eCrater items on Squidoo coplete with "Buy Now" buttons.

Make sure excerpt is set to "Everything Available" and display HTML is set to "Yes".

Make your RSS Feeds Look Better on Squidoo 

Squidoo doesn't support tables so the elements in the feeds aren't aligned as nicely on Squidoo as they could be. The wonderful lensmaster thefluffanutta has developed a Yahoo Pipe for ecrater feeds to use on Squidoo that makes them look much nicer.

eCrater Feed Pipe for Squidoo

Example of Using RSS Feed on Squidoo 

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Using Feedburner with eCrater Feeds 

Feedburner allows anyone to track rss stats and promote their feeds with various tools. Simply visit feedburner.com and enter your rss feed.

Using Feedburner BuzzBoost to Display your eCrater Items 

One of the most useful tools Feedburner has is BuzzBoost, a tools that allows you to convert an rss feed to a snippet of javascript. You can then input this into any website that allows you to use javascript such as a personal webpage or blog.

After burning your feed with Feedburner select the Publicize tab and then the BuzzBoost link on that page.



After clicking Activate you will be given a snippet of javascript. Copy and paste that into the page where you want the rss feed to display.

Tools to Help You Display your Feeds 

On your blog, website, myspace, facebook, etc.

CaRP/WP - Display RSS Feeds In WordPress Posts With This Free WordPress Plugin
CaRP/WP - Display RSS Feeds In Your WordPress Posts Free Plugin Integrates WordPress & CaRP
RSS-to-JavaScript.com
RSS/RDF Converter: Convert a Feed - RSS-to-JavaScript.com: Free RSS/RDF to JavaScript Conversion Tool for Webmasters
FeedFlash widget, a flash feed reader, put feeds and news everywhere on the Web...
FeedFlash widget, a Flash RSS reader to put feeds and news everywhere on the Web ... for sites that do not accept javascript like MySpace.
Widgetbox: World's largest widget directory and gallery - web widgets for Facebook apps, Blogger, TypePad, MySpace, Wordpress and more
Widgetbox is the world's largest widget marketplace, with widgets for Facebook, Blogger, TypePad, MySpace, Bebo, WordPress, Piczo, Xanga, Freewebs, Netvibes, Pageflakes, iGoogle, and all blogs and web pages.
6 free RSS to Javascript tools
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A collection of utilities guaranteed to improve the way you use and work with RSS feeds.

Places to Submit your RSS Feeds 

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Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit, with coverage of current events, cultural reference points, and niche areas of interest.
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Ping over fifty blog services instantly. Pingoat also has an XML-RPC server. Ping services like Technorati, newsgator,feedster..
Platform for Blog Communities @ BUMPzee!
...read blogs, comment here or there, start new discussions, network with others.
RSS Submissions
Submit RSS files to the following sites and location to expedite content syndication.
TopRank Best List of RSS Blog Directories to Submit Your Blog and Feed | Online Marketing Blog
Below is a list of the submission urls for RSS and blog directories that you can submit your blog or RSS feed to. This list is a
FriendFeed
Share your stuff from other sites automatically.
Explorz - Online Shopping Portal and Store Reviews
Explorz.com - Shopping Made Easier is a shopping portal. Find the lowest prices on products and services from online sellers and view their store reviews.
How To Get Deep Links with RSS Feeds
There are a number of online syndication services that will display an RSS feed as a web page. These will typically contain deep-links to pages on to the originating website, which is a valuable source of backlinks.I originally wrote about this on the Digital Point Forums back in September of 2006,

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giftcentral42 wrote...

Great info on widgets and RSS feeds. Thanks :)

ReplyPosted November 04, 2008

 
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