RSS Publish Your Feed

RSS feeds bring automatically updated the information straight to your desktop. You can monitor news, blogs, job listings, personals, and classifieds. More and more sites offer feeds, which you can identify by a small button that says either RSS or XML. However, if you click one of these links, you will most likely get a page full of code in your browser. To properly read the feed, you need an RSS reader.

Get Your RSS Feed Up On The Web

Now it is the time to get your RSS file up on the web. It will done in some steps.

1. Name your RSS file. It will always care that the file must have an .xml extension.

2. Validate your RSS file .

3. Uploaded the RSS file to your web directory on the your web server.

4. Copy the little or button to your web directory.

5. Put the little "RSS" or "XML" button on the page where you will offer RSS to the world (e.g. on your home page). Then add a link to the button that links to the RSS file. The code will look something like this:
<a href="/frwww.academictutorials/rss/rss1.xml">
<img src="www.academictutorials.com/rss/rss1.gif" width="36" height="14">
</a>

6. Submit your RSS feed to the RSS Feed Directories (you can Google or Yahoo for "RSS Feed Directories"). Note! The URL to your feed is not your home page, it is the URL to your feed, like "http://www.academictutorials.com/rss/rss1.xml". Here are some free RSS aggregation services:

Syndic8: Over 300,000 feeds listed. Register your feed here.
Daypop: Over 50,000 feeds. Register your feed here.
Newsisfree: Over 18,000 feeds. Register your feed here.

7. Register your feed with the major search engines:

Yahoo - http://publisher.yahoo.com/promote.php

Google - http://www.google.com/intl/zh-cn/webmasters/addfeed.html

MSN - http://rss.msn.com/publisher.armx

8. Update your feed - Now you have gotten RSS feed buttons from Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Now you must make sure that you update your content frequently and that your RSS feed is constantly available.

Can I Manage my RSS Feed Myself?

The best way to ensure your RSS feed works the way by which you want, is to manage it yourself.

However, this can be very time taken process, especially for pages with lot of updates.

An alternative is to use a third-party automated RSS.

Automated RSS

If you don't want to update your RSS feed yourself, there are tools and services that can do it automatically for you, For example:

MyRSSCreator - offers an automated, reliable RSS service in just 10 minutes

FeedFire - offers free creation and distribution of RSS feeds

For users who only need an RSS feed for their personal website, some of the most popular blog (Web Log) managers that offer built-in RSS services are:

Blogger:A blog is your easy-to-use web site, where you can quickly post thoughts, interact with people, and more.

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