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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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Contents of this Lens
- Real Simple Syndication
- RSS Newsfeeds are global so are the visitors
- How I use a newsfeeder to add news and blogs to my webpages
- RSS Newsfeed and Sitemap Resources
- Usefull additions if you are planning a News Feed
- New York, New York. An example of a useful RSS feed
- News Aggregators
- Some really good RRS feeds and information
- A Marketing Blog
- You might like to follow up on these Lenses
- Some links you might find interesting
- RSS TalkBack
- Learn all about RSS, real simple syndication
- What is RSS ?
- Squidoo, some information
Real Simple Syndication
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
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How I use a newsfeeder to add news and blogs to my webpages
RSS Newsfeed and Sitemap Resources
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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.
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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.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byNews Aggregators
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
Some really good RRS feeds and information
Here are some recommended links.
Wikipedia, RSS
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Wikipedia, Aggregator
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RSS, building and using a feed, step by step.
RSS - The info exchange system on the web0 points
How to create and use an RSS News Feed in Squidoo
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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.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byYou might like to follow up on these Lenses
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Creating a Blog is important
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It is believed that the word Blog came from weblog, and naturally it has been shorten. This Lens will try to explain Blogs, why they are useful and more importantly provide links to additional inform and tips and tricks. You are invited to add your B...
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A step by step guide on how to create a Squidoo Lens
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This guide is designed to help the first time user. There are many other help files, but you might find this guide the easy way to start. This Lens is not spamming, has no advertising, it is just a help file and is in many groups, that's why there a...
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Sitemaps
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A sitemap for your website is very, very important. You can automatically create an up to date sitemap in a number of different versions for all the main search engines. This does not work on Squidoo. For Squidoo, the alternative is to create a Lenso...
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Deleting Lenses and Groups
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Maybe like me, you have received a message that a group owner has closed a group. The email I got read "The "Travel Information Group" group on Squidoo has been disbanded by one of the group's administrators. (Don't worry, your lens is fine! This jus...
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Lensography
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Lensography can be consider as a sitemap or list of your Lenses and groups and is one way to bring them all together. This Lensography shows and describes links to a lot of my Lenses and Groups. To get you started I have shown links to "how to...
Some links you might find interesting
- The RSS News Feed Group
- The place to find out all about RSS
- A collection of help files
- Need help creating or solving problems with Lenses, maybe the answer is here.
- The place to be for all US & Canadian Lenses
- Add your Lens
- Squidoo, Lensography and Squidoo Lenses.
- How to use Squidoo, with examples and a step by step guide.
- One to one Marketing Support . How to survive
- Assisting companies with international marketing requirements, using Internet resources and experience. The marketing Blog
RSS TalkBack
annetteghallowell wrote...
Thanks for helping me understand what an RSS feed is all about. I have added it as a favorite to come back to fore reference!
Posted August 11, 2008
robert320 wrote...
Nice lens, I have only recently started using RSS, I have found a few new resources here for me to look into: will def have a look at Digg.
Thanks
Robert
Posted March 03, 2008
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What is RSS ?
RSS (most commonly translated as "Really Simple Syndication" but sometimes "Rich Site Summary") 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 - often referred to informally as a "URL" (uniform resource locator), although technically the two terms are not exactly synonymous - or by clicking an RSS icon in a 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 since March 1999, the RSS icon ("Category: File - :Feed-icon.svg|16px") first gained widespread use between 2005 and 2006.
Squidoo, some information
Squidoo is a community website based in Hastings on Hudson, N.Y. that allows users to create pages (called lenses) for subjects of interest. Lenses are interactive, and can contain Flickr photos, Google maps, blogs, eBay auctions, YouTube videos, and other links. Squidoo is in the top 200 most visited sites in the world, and in the top 50 most viewed in the United States.Squidoo.com traffic details Alexa.com. It has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to charity.
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