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RSS News Feeds and how they can help.

News feeds or RSS is a method to send regulary updated information to web pages, blogs and to Lenses. The RSS stands real simple sydication and is widely use by publishers of newspapers, tv companies, magazine to "push" information to subscribers.

Major users are, BBC, New York Times, CNN if it is good for them, it could be good for you.

There is lots of information about RSS and Newsfeeds, so I am not going to even try to write my own. If you need Internet Support, here is my Link
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Real Simple Syndication 

The purpose of this Lens is to help you with resources if you want to create a RSS feed or just find feeds to add to your web pages or Lenses.

First lets start with some simple feeds. Squidoo makes this easy by providing an RSS module. All you need to do is to add the correct feed and the module will populate itself.

You can join DIGG which is also a News Aggregator. This is how it works. Registered users submit news worthy news stories, blog entries, videos, Forums, pictures, and link back to the web address. Registered users can rate the submission with votes, and the highest-ranked stories can earn a position on Digg's front page. This is great for getting a high Page Ranking in the search engines.

RSS Newsfeeds are global so are the visitors 

Squidoo is very international and as only Squidoo members can vote, here are the visitors to this RSS Newsfeed Lens. If you like the idea of Squidoo, it is free and easy. Here is my self help Lens about creating your first Squidoo Lens.

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How I use a newsfeeder to add news and blogs to my webpages 

First you need a news creator, I recommend the one listed below, it is easy to use, you can add images, and link in from other newsfeeds and Blogs. If you use Blogger you can link this direct into your newsfeed and then use an Iframe to you have your webpage updated every time there is a Blog posting. See how I use a Blog to post direct into a webpage.

RSS Newsfeed and Sitemap Resources 

I am building a list of useful links and information about RSS. I think I have
found one of the best RSS news creators ever.

● Simple to use

● Reasonably price

● Free Trial

● Large amount of ready made templates

● Great Forum for getting answers

RSS News Creator RSS Feed Creator. This is the trial version, good for 30 days.

RSS News Feeder A great product with lots of support.

RssNews for Blackberry

RssNews!-Personal Mobile

Java RSS News Ticker Applet



Stay update with the latest news,
All types of information and has the latest information every month. If you are
serious about SEO, this is for you.

News Feeds and a Sitemap are both very important to increase your page ranking in Search Engines. Did you know that you need a sitemap in .html, .xml,
.txt, rss, and a web.sitemap to be successful. I use this tool to create my sitemaps.

Usefull additions if you are planning a News Feed 

Create a RSS feed
Software to create your own RSS Feed, not free but good
Another book on RSS
The A-Z about RSS
Using a Blog as a newsfeed
Here is an example of a RSS feed from a Blog which opens in a new window One to One So by clicking on the top link "Using a Blog as a newsfeed" you get the newsfeed or clicking on the One to One link you go direct to the Blog. So both methods are using the same web address. You can also use the feed to add to a webpage as this example

New York, New York. An example of a useful RSS feed 

An example is given below of a useful feed about the weather in New York. You can add any number of feeds, but do not over do it.

Loading Fetching RSS feed... please stand by

News Aggregators 

I have been using a News Aggregator on my website Munich City Guide for over 8 years. Check it out. The Munich guide has lots of pages I created and also aggregates pages from other companies and individuls. The site also recommends Squidoo.

You can get your own version and include this in pages on your site or get a News Aggregator and view this direct from your browser.
To get a free news aggregator for your website or Lens which covers most of the world, you should check out

MoreOver which offers a wide range of feeds you can incorporation into your Lens, Blog or website. Here is a link to their RSS News

A Marketing Blog 

Owning and running a Blog gives you the opportunity to feed information to everybody taking the feed. Here is mine from my Internet Support Blog.

Loading Fetching RSS feed... please stand by

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What is RSS ? 

RSS (most commonly expanded as "Really Simple Syndication") is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works?such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video?in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed",

"Web feeds | RSS | The Guardian | guardian.co.uk",

The Guardian, London, 2008, webpage:

GuardianUK-webfeeds.

or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. RSS feeds can be read using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader", or "aggregator", which can be web-based, desktop-based, or mobile-device-based. A standardized XML file format allows the information to be published once and viewed by many different programs. The user subscribes to a feed by entering into the reader the feed's URI or by clicking an RSS icon in a web browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds.

RSS formats are specified using XML, a generic specification for the creation of data formats. Although RSS formats have evolved from as early as March 1999, it was between 2005 and 2006 when RSS gained widespread use, and the ("Category: File - :Feed-icon.svg|16px") icon was decided upon by several major Web browsers.

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Squidoo, some information 

Squidoo is a community website that allows users to create pages (called lenses) for subjects of interest. Squidoo is in the top 500 most visited sites in the world, and in the top 300 most viewed in the United States.Squidoo.com traffic details Alexa.com. Squidoo grew 91% in 2008, and had 900,000 handbuilt lenses as of February 1st, 2009.

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