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RSS Howto for beginners - here you will learn in easy steps:

1. Howto create your own RSS Newsfeed
2. Howto publish RSS Newsfeed
3. How to submit RSS news feed
4. How to read RSS news feed

RSS howto last updated: Thu Apr 24 01:27:23 PHT 2008 - This RSS howto does include changes in RSS specifications last published on Oct 15 2007

By the end of this howto - all done step by step - you should have your own first fully validated and registered RSS2.0 feed online. The creation part is rather quick and easy - the registration part with all below listed RSS directories may take a few hours but is well worth the efforts. A properly registered RSS feed offers 2 key values and benefits:

RSS benefits are

1. You get 50-100 natural high PR backlinks for each individually registered RSS feed
2. You get more exposure to the web - more natural popularity
3. You get much more traffic
4. You get more SE independent traffic - direct requests of regular subscribers to your RSS feeds
5. You may replace your newsletters by a well maintained RSS feed
6. Finally as a result of ever increasing traffic you also may increase your advertisement related site-revenue such as Google adsense.

Therefore if you are serious about creating your own first RSS feed - run thru all below steps - take your time - open end - half a day or so including all registration with RSS directories. Why so much time ? Many of the RSS directories require you to create a FREE user account first. If you want to succeed - then do it right from the very beginning. It took me many dozen hours to write this RSS howto and dozens of annual hours to maintain it up to date - hence your very own site and success should be worth at least as much to you as it is to me - right ?

Why I do this RSS howto? Many years ago when i started to look into RSS feeds there was NO howto, no precise documentation, I had to do all from scratch - to study and search and try for weeks again and again. Then once done, it all appeared easy and simple to me - hence I decided to share my efforts' resulting experience with RSS feeds - my own success of my currently 5 feeds is very substantial ... one of the best time investment ever done on my site.

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A comprehensive quick guide with all links to all RSS Newsfeed resources needed to create and install your own RSS News feed on your website.

Follow the steps from top to the bottom and in a very few hours you have:

1. created your own RSS news feed
2. uploaded your own RSS news feed
3. adapted your .htaccess to properly serve .rss files
4. adapted you .htaccess to properly parse .html files to display SSI
5. validated your own RSS news feed
6. display your own RSS news feed on your site using SSI
7. have it submitted to many major RSS Newsfeed search engines and directories
8. have your own RSS news feed Reader software installed as a plug in to you browser for easy reading
9. see the first RSS search engine bots crawling your new RSS news feed in your access_log
10. Display JavaScript RSS Newsfeed
11. Display your RSS Newsfeed with perl SSI
12. Display your RSS Newsfeed with PHP

1. Create your own RSS 2.0 Newsfeed
using Firefox "RSS editor"

Earlier I had here a link to Perl module to create an RSS feed instantly online - however the perl modules involved are far behind development of RSS standards and for RSS1.0 only - the most state of the art RSS editor including all fields and configuration options of modern RSS2.0 feeds is the Firefox extension RSS editor. I strongly encourage to use this fine tool to start with. Avoid old RSS1.0 feeds and start with RSS2.0 feeds - it will open the doors to more RSS directories and more features needed for attractive RSS feeds!

We use Firefox browser extensions "RSS editor" - As a progressive and modern Internet user - you most likely have already Firefox installed - else you may want to install firefox right now before continuing. Remember - the purpose of this howto RSS is to create your own first top quality RSS2.0 feed. Now we install Firefox extension "RSS editor". Restart your Firefox to make your "RSS editor" available - after restart Firefox - to start your "RSS editor" go Firefox menu tools - RSS Editor and open any of the options offered to start editing your first RSS2.0 feed.

An easy way to learn always is to see a final validated and working example - here a short example RSS2.0 feed created with Firefox "RSS editor" as your visual reference to know where to enter what data.

Here a few notes to the various field-data to be completed - or study the complete and detailed RSS 2.0 Specification from RSS Advisory Board:

• title: give a title that includes SEO relevant keywords as well! - same applies for your channel description. People who search RSS feeds in RSS specialized directories will find your feed according to these a.m. 2 channel data title and description fields.
• link: Each RSS feed you create should have its own "homepage" - may be one feed links to your domain-start page, other feeds with specialized topics to the start page of that particular sub-folder of your domain. advantage: each channel should be registered separately in all major below listed RSS directories and most of these directories have a high Google PR giving that particular sub-section of your site more value / higher PR! but also to make sure a viewer of an RSS feed gets linked to the relevant sub-section of your site to find other similar topics.
• all date fields - click on the small button on your "RSS editor" to create the ONE and only precise validated date formate required
• category: this actually should display some global and commonly used category names used - such as the categories of DMOZ directory or similar global category denominations. Looking at the RSS directories where you submit your RSS feeds will give you an idea of what common RSS categories are out there.
• item: each NEWS post is an "item" to add an item - click the editor button "insert" - then edit/fill in the empty fields below in the RSS editor
• guid: this element is to be a global unique identifier for each item of your feed. two options possible . the hexadecimal number the RSS editor creates OR the URL of the particular page of an item. I prefer the URL method and hence then you need to click on far right of your RSS Editor the option "isPermaLink"

2. upload your own RSS Newsfeed to your server !!! ( ftp )

If your validated RSS feed is ready - its time to see the success and share your valuables with the world
create a new directory and upload
create a structure that can grow

because

NOW is just the beginning of all RSS !
different RSS feeds in different languages
for different topics
and one just for fun ?!
and another one to share your professional expertise ... tips and tricks ... via RSS

3. validate your own RSS Newsfeed !!

BUT

if this is your FIRST RSS displayed on your server / site
you may also need to add the following line to your .htaccess -- your server needs to know how to serve RSS

AddType application/rss+xml .rss

then validate !!! your .rss page - p l e a s e .. VALIDATE your RSS news feed or you may see many RSS Newsfeed search engines rejecting your feed - and even worse you will see RSS News reader refusing to DISPLAY your RSS news feed and instead showing only the SOURCE !

validate your own RSS Newsfeed !!!!!!!!!!

4. Submit to RSS news feed search engines and RSS news feed directories

This part is far easier and faster than web site submit !!

Just click on each link - it will open in new window - submit your RSS and continue with next link

Add your RSS to feed24.com
submit your blog to blogsrater.com
Submit a Blog to blog-search.com
BOTW Blog Directory free submission - BOTW also has a paid submission version!
Free Weblog Directory - submit your RSS feeds
RSS Network - add your RSS feed
Submit your RSS feeds to www.rssmad.com by category
Submit RSS feeds by category to feedbomb.com
free-rss.page2go2.com - Submit your RSS feeds by category
feedooyoo.com - Submit your RSS feed by category
submit RSS feed to syndic8.com
submit RSS feed to esperanto.se
submit RSS feed to completerss.com
submit RSS feed to rss-verzeichnis.de
submit RSS feed to rocketinfo.com
submit RSS feed to blogdigger.com
submit RSS feed to masternewmedia.org
submit your RSS Newsfeed to postami.com
submit RSS feed to popdex.com
submit RSS feed to globeofblogs.com
submit your RSS feed to www.2rss.com/
rss-verzeichnis.de - Site is in German - but accepts English and German feeds
Submit a new channel to RSS / RDF news-ticker
submit RSS feed to search4rss.com
submit RSS news fee to newsxs.com
submit RSS news feed to feedsee.com
submit RSS feeds to scienceport.org/ - 1st select category - then submit site + RSS feed
submit RSS feeds to news-feeds.org
suggest RSS feed to allheadlinenews.com
Recommend a News Website to newstrove.com
submit RSS feed to fybersearch.com
suggest RSS feed to feedsfarm.com - OPML or RSS feeds
Yahoo! publisher network - Submit Your RSS Feed
Yahoo! Search: Submit Your Media RSS Feed
Feedbase - add RSS feed

OPML submission

The following directories accept only OPML - OPML 2.0 draft spec - if you have an OPML then use these directories in addition to all above. These below OPML directories do NOT accept single RSS feeds !!

Before submitting your OPML file - validate your OPML !!

RSS/ATOM/OPML Feed Submission to feedsfarm.com

A cool tool to automatically submit your RSS Newsfeed to several RSS Newsfeed directories i found and successfully tested today - submission fails when the submitted RSS URL is already known to that directory - verify the *Submission Failed* - all my failed submissions have already been known - hence full success on all submissions.

yahoo rss ping: - enter below URL adapted to YOUR URL in a browser for easiest method

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://www.kriyayoga.com/rss/love.rss

Some valuable general information about Yahoo and RSS feeds can be found at:

http://my.yahoo.com/s/publishers.html

OTHER search engines also may offer a ping service ( to activate a RE-crawl !! how nice that would be with Google and Yahoo for regular pages !! )

If your RSS News feed is really heavy stuff and you have the courage to attempt a Yahoo directory entry .. .here the direct URL - click on standard ( FREE ) submission and you end up in the folder:

News and Media/Web Directories/Headline Indices

Directories to submit your blog

MyBlog2u.com - Weblog Directory

Blog Flux Directory

Bloghub - Blog Directory - first register then submit your blog

Blog search directory

blog directory bloguniverse.com - a backlink is required

Submit blog OR RSS feed to deskfeeds.com first select the category

To get listed in LS Blogs select a category then submit into up to 3 categories for free

The Blog Directory a human edited blog directory - easy submission by category read this guideline first

Other source to submit your blogs are:
http://www.bloglinker.com/

http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html

http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/submit_blog.html submit to Blog Directory

The Blog Directory

A site about RSS Feeds

DAYPOP - Submit Site

boingboing - submit to a blog-Directory of Wonderful Things

2rss.com - submit blog

Submit Your Blog to Blog Search Engine

submit blog to Eatonweb portal

You may also have a look at the most current RSS news feed directories at Google:

	Web www.kriyayoga.com

5. Read RSS feeds

many readers - depending on OS

1 EASY way

For Mozilla Firefox Browser

Mozilla Firefox Browser + RSS Reader Panel - ( for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux )

First download and install the newest Firefox browser

If you have your Firefox browser already - directly Download/install the "Wizz RSS News Reader" for Firefox - restart your Firefox to enable the new RSS reader. To add new RSS feeds: just drag and drop RSS feed-URL into the sidebar panel of your Wizz RSS News Reader.

There are more choices available to read RSS feeds - for Mozilla, Firefox or Thunderbird then search for RSS reader or just search the web using major search engines or search in your preferred browser's home page for add-ons or plugins RSS reader for your browser.

For myself with my Firefox browser working full time as a web publisher since 1997, I prefer always the best of all, my choice is the "Wizz RSS News Reader" for Firefox - available for all platforms

How to install RSS reader for firefox browser ?

IN firefox - toolbar ( on top of your browser ) select:

1. Tools
2. Extensions
3. Then a small POP-UP appears and you click the link "Get More Extensions"
4. In your new browser window you now have the full selection of Firefox extensions and for RSS reader you select on the left navigation bar of the page the category
5. News
6. then you see the selection of RSS reader - and Sage as well

OR - another RSS reader option

you have Netscape 6 or newer already installed ( or OLD versions of Mozilla supporting sidebar ) then you may try to install a Newsfeed as a sidebar @

in seconds you have it done to view/read your Newsfeed !

6. Display your RSS Newsfeed on your site to invite webmasters and users to add it to their reader or site

many ways !!!

one simple method for YOUR created RSS is the use of a simple perl script to allow easy SSI of your RSS feed

Display your RSS Newsfeed with perl SSI

If you want to see a sample ? here on this page on the far right you see an example created with this script and inserted with SSI

- on the far right of this page you see my own RSS inserted by that script

Download xmlnews.cgi - a perl script to parse RSS Newsfeed and create SSI from your RSS news feed

it's VERY easy install - and done in minutes !
adapt the "CONFIGURATION SECTION " to your needs and URL of the script ..
after install - OF COURSE chmod 755 to the script !!

SSI --- you may have to assure your page is SSI enabled on the server
usually pages ending .shtm or .shtml are
else you add the following line to your .htaccess

AddHandler server-parsed html

for pages ending .html

or

AddHandler server-parsed htm

if page anding .htm

Display your RSS Newsfeed with JavaScript

Display your RSS Newsfeed with PHP script zFeeder

Similar to the Javascript - zFeeder allows you to insert RSS Newsfeed of any source into your own pages. Easy to set up - but of course you need PHP support on your server.

It took me many days to get my RSS news feed up and running

and more time to have a reader
hence i decided to write THIS howto to save you days of searching and surfing and trying.

With all the steps above - including submission of all - it may take you as little as 2-4 hrs for ALL work, configuration, download, upload, validation, bug fixes if any, submission and testing.

Renewal of texts is simple and easy - no need to get complex software for that for the beginning. You can EASILY update all RSS news feed in your conventional editor you are using for professional web design.

later you can change and improve as your progress and succeed and may want to expand and venture into this new field of data and news sharing.

VALIDATE your RSS News feed - i have seen plenty of reputable sites having NON-validated RSS feed displaying ONLY page source in reader !! Its a simple step and you get used to the fact that their are a few symbols and special characters which may have to be avoided when writing RSS news feed pages.

Within less than an hours after your submission to all above RSS News feed search engines and RSS news feed directories you may see already one or several RSS News feed bots crawling your site.

Be aware that RSS news feeds is for NEWS - for updates - fro FRESH info .. hence some of the RSS news feed bots will revisit your RSS news feed several times PER HOUR !!

RSS News feed beyond beginners

Some extended beginners knowledge may be needed later on and you may start step by step to study your self into the topic by beginning with the standards and specifications:

RSS 0.91 Spec, revision 3

From w3schools: XML Tutorial

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