Archive for January, 2010
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Lesson Four (and final lesson I think)
Now here is the part I really love about RSS feeds. You can use them to display rotating or fresh content on your websites.
Why is this a good thing? Well, not only does it make a better experience your visitors, which should always ...
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
I have been asked how one submits the RSS feed to Google Webmasters Tools, so here you go:
Go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
If you are already logged into your Google account, Adsense account or Gmail account, it will take you directly to your Webmaster Tools page without the need to log-in.
You ...
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Lesson 3
Okay, now you have an RSS feed on your website. Now you can submit the feed in various places. Here is the minimum of what I do with mine.
1. Google Webmasters Tools - Add site (must add a meta tag to home page) then "add sitemap" using my ...
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Lesson Two -- Creating RSS Feeds
One of the reasons for having RSS on your site is so that you can submit the feed to RSS directories to get extra backlinks. I also use my RSS feed for my "sitemap" in Google Webmaster Tools. This helps to get all my content ...
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Lesson One -– What is RSS?
To get you started, I suggest you learn some more about RSS in general:
http://www.ofzenandcomputing.com/zanswers/129
http://www.life123.com/technology/internet/rss/explain-rss.shtml
http://www.backinskinnyjeans.com/2006/09/how_to_explain_.html
I suggest you go get a feed reader, like Google Reader, and add some feeds to it from some blogs you like to follow, just to get a feeling for how it ...
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