RSS

[Moderator 1]

Everyone using RSS? Adding this to your blogs and lenses, etc? :)

[Roseanne]

Don't know how to use RSS but would love to! ;) Roseanne

[Moderator 1]

RSS = Really Simple Syndication

It is a way websites and blogs to share headlines and stories from other sites. Internet surfers can use sophisticated news readers to surf these headlines using RSS aggregators. This will help your lens rank as well by the way!

Also for squidoo'ers - use and sign up for lensroll. This is another way to help get lens rank - it's sort of an RSS just for squidoo. (You can still put and RSS Feed on your lens too.)

Here are a couple of squidoo lenses that have some good explanations on what RSS is and how to add it to your lenses and blogs, etc.

http://www.squidoo.com/rssmodule

http://www.squidoo.com/rss-learn

Also for your Wordpress blogs:

http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/16 ... wordpress/ (http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/16/adding-rss-feeds-to-wordpress/)


I hope this will help everyone! :)

[KitKat]

Wow... wish I had those links a while ago.... I had the hardest time with it... I get it.... but still not using it to its full potential....

Thanks for the info! :D :D

[TshirtFrank]

Wow... wish I had those links a while ago.... I had the hardest time with it... I get it.... but still not using it to its full potential....

Thanks for the info! :D :D

My thoughts exactly. It is one of those tools that I just havent learned how to use to my advantage yet.

Thanks for the resources!

TSF

[Forum Admin 2]

Great post. This is always a question that comes up in the forums. Thank you for listing it :)

[jpiper1]

Amazing how much information is out there to learn. Thanks for the direction to learn more about the RSS.

[Forum Admin 2]

If you are just starting out, this will be one to really take notice and start applying early on. Otherwise once you start building your business, you will have to go back and do to all :)

[Moderator 1]

Very good point, Forum Admin2! :)

[Roseanne]

Wow, this is an avalanche of good information. I'm still a bit clueless but for sure I wiil read all about it. That's great, and thanks Roseanne

[Forum Admin 2]

Read through it Roseanne and come back in if you have added questions about it:)

[sapphire81]

I've read quite a bit of information about RSS and I'm still not quite understanding how to set it up. I guess I need to do some more studying on it. I'm sure it would help the traffic to my sites.

[Forum Admin 2]

Here is a great blog with added information that might help you out::)

http://paulstamatiou.com/2005/11/13/how-to-getting-started-with-rss/

[Moderator 1]

Megan it also depends on which application you are wanting to add it to. If you have a specific one, we might be able to help.

Great blog Forum Admin 2! :)

[EasyWizard]

There are some great tools to tap the power of RSS.

I use it in a number of different ways.

1. submit RSS feeds of your sites to RSS directories
2. Add an external RSS widget content to our site, blog, lens etc
3. Use the RSS feed from your blog in your lense and vs versa (not at the same time)
4. In self hosted wordpress use a plugin to have posts or pages with RSS content
5. In self hosted wordpress use a plugin to automatically create posts from RSS content
6. Use feed syndicaters such as feedburner and feedage to track subscribers to your site

There are more but those are most commonly used.

Any questions ;-)

Just ask