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Old 05-29-2008, 08:35 PM
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Hi All,

I want to add an RSS feed to my website, but I don't know how. When I go to feedburner.com I just find out that Google has recently acquired it, but not how to add it to my site.

What I'm interested in is creating my own feeds, not getting feeds from other sites.

Does anyone know how I can do this? I'm not even sure what site I need to visit to get it.

Thanks.
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Old 05-29-2008, 08:48 PM
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Feedburner is for promoting your existing feed. It doesn't create the XML file/feed for you. If you don't have a blog or CMS that can generate your feed for you then you need to create it.

Before I got into blogging I created an RSS feed for my site through software at www.feedforall.com It creates your feed every time you add new content and then FTPs the XML file to your web server for people to retrieve and subscribe to it.

Now there might be some free tools that will generate your site XML feed for you but feedforall was what I used. Maybe someone else knows of another solution for creating your feed. So to break this down...

1) Since this is for your website and not a blog you need a way to create the XML feed. You can either do this manually (not recommended) or find a tool like feedforall that creates the XML feed/file for you.

2) Once you have created the XML file/feed and uploaded it to your server then you can use Feedburner to promote the feed and begin promoting it.

Most people don't create RSS feeds for their websites because there is too much manual work involved. Blogs make it much easier to manage RSS feeds.
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Old 05-29-2008, 09:40 PM
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Hi Lisa,

Thanks for your response. My cash flow is a little tight right now and so maybe I'll just have to wait awhile to add the RSS feed to my site, unless I can find a free program. If not, I'll just use feedforall to create my feed when I am able to.

At least I know where to look now.

Thanks for the info.
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Old 06-01-2008, 12:47 PM
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Chiris Ralano,

you can check this site: http://www.cosmicscripts.com/demos/rss.shtml

the provide free rss feed software for website.

hope this can help as ur cash flow is little tight now
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Old 06-01-2008, 07:59 PM
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Hi KRH,

Thanks very much for the RSS software information.
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