Feedburner – Quick and Easy RSS Feed Add-Ons

rss30admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:56:04 +0000

RSS 3.0 is always trying to find the best of whats new in the RSS world to bring to our readers and well, this article is not going to cover anything that has just been released, but some very useful information on how to get the most out of your RSS Feeds all the same. There are some awesome RSS Tips being covered in this article so make sure to read on and share this one!

There are a lot of great RSS web resources out there and we wanted to take a few minutes to explain some of the advantages of one of the biggest on the web, FeedBurner.com

What Is FeedBurner.com?

Feedburner.com is a site that allows webmasters to dress up their respective RSS Feeds. Since FeedBurner.com was purchased by Google, it has changed in a few ways and mostly for the better. The simple fact that this is a site owned by Google, you know that anything you submit here will be indexed by Google in a timely fashion. Also, you can now connect your RSS Feed Analytics to your Google Analytics account. This is a great way to keep all your stats in one place and make your job a lot easier.

What Can FeedBurner.com Do For My RSS Feed?

FeedBurner.com has all sorts of interesting ways to “Add” value to your existing RSS feed. You can do a lot with the formatting, you can add links, you can make social bookmarking of your feed items a snap, you can even make the feed more accessible by making it available in multiple formats.

RSS Feed – Subscribe By Email

This has to be one of the most useful features that FeedBurner.com will add to your RSS Feed. If you do not have a mailing list, this is the next best thing. You can put a small piece of code on your site and then allow your readers to subscribe to updates from your site via email. The email updates are driven by your RSS Feed, so every time you update your website or add a new piece of content, your readers are automatically notified of the updates.

Multiply Your Feeds Using FeedBurner.com!

Many people like to use popular websites and programs that allow RSS Feeds to be submitted to directories and RSS Feed Aggregators. If you are doing this with your current feed, then understand that each feed you add to the FeedBurner.com site will produce a new RSS Feed web address and in essence will multiply the number of feeds you have to submit to these services and sites.

Remember that you will need to give a slightly different title and description to your FeedBurner.com feeds or they may be marked as duplicates!

More FeedBurner.com RSS Feed Tricks

Here are some other quick things you can do with an RSS Feed on this awesome site:

1. Replublish Your RSS Feed As HTML

2. Automatically Notify Services When There Are New Posts

3. Rotate RSS Feed Headlines

4. Add Adsense To Your RSS Feed

5. Display Subscriber and Click Out Statistics Of Your Feed

6. Export Info On Multiple Domain RSS Feeds In CVS Format

I truly hope that this article was both informative and useful to you. If you have any questions on the usage or implementation of the information shared here, feel free to comment on this post or contact us direct.

To Success,

Nick Simpson – RSS 3.0

http://RSS30.com Admin

RSS 2.0 Or Atom Feeds?

rss30admin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:15:56 +0000

There has been some heavy competition in the website syndication arena and we just wanted to clarify some questions that people have about which version/protocol that is the most effective for you and your website. It seems that the use of different protocols for web site syndication has confused some and made many not sure which is the “right” choice for their own web site syndication needs. RSS has been around longer than any other web site syndication service, however when the Atom publishing service came out, there was a lot of discussion about how it may eventually take over as the standard for newsreaders and web site syndication alike. Atom boasted a more robust and scalable platform for website syndication and also allowed for links and images in your feeds.

When the internet giant Google, adopted the atom feed as the default on the huge blogging site Blogger.com many thought that the days of RSS were already gone. This has added to the push for more use and acceptance of the atom feed protocol, but has it actually taken hold for good?

Which Protocol Can My Feed Reader Accept?

Feed readers have become pretty much open to either form of web site syndication. Now you can read either format with most feed readers and if you are using a feed reader that does not accept one or the other, you can always go to feedburner.com to convert your RSS feed to atom or atom to RSS. So no matter what type of a feed a site offers you can always get the newest content using any feed reader of your choosing.

Of course, it has been some time since this technology has come out and it is now just in it’s infancy stage, but has never become more popular than RSS. RSS has actually grown and become as powerful if not more powerful than the atom publishing protocol. RSS now can display links images and even videos in some cases, so the advantages of use the Atom protocol for web site syndication have pretty much dissolved.

Many websites do accept both types of feeds, however RSS still remains the Internet standard. The atom publishing protocol started off strong because at the time it actually offered more features than RSS. However, as newer versions of the RSS protocol have been released, it quickly caught up with Atom.

RSS or Atom?

So the quick answer is still RSS, but you may want to make sure that your website feeds are still available in both formats to make sure that your readers can get updates from your website in their preferred format. As far as news readers and feed aggregators go, you can use either for the most part, but Atom feeds usually are more likely to display full posts and pictures in the posts automatically.