Marketing / Publishing / Distributing Rss Feeds

[1dmf]

Hi,

Ok so I've written the articles section, we now have a real article which has been published to the web.

We have an RSS news feed plugged into our website (which drives the articles section).

I've added it to google sitemap.xml and yahoo site feed.

So now what?

How do I tell the world about the news feed, how do I market and publish an RSS feed?

Any ideas or guidance is much appreciated.

Regards,
1DMF.

[TrafficProducer]

RSS, Really Simple Syndication (http://www.acomputerportal.com/rss.html) Some Ping links etc...

P.S. I think that RSS Builder Home (http://home.hetnet.nl/~bsoft/rssbuilder/index.htm) is the best way to build RSS files, (not site map files)

Site Map Pings, I think one of these fails:

(For sitemaps you need to verify the sitemap is your's, by adding code to the webpage, or a file to the host, from google and yahoo)




http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap= Your Site Map URL


http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap= Your Site Map URL


http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap= Your Site Map URL

[1dmf]

Hi, Thanks for the reply.

I'll check out the ping sites.

I already have an XML sitemap and am not sure why you suggest RSS Builder Home, I hand roll my own files and validate them with W3C.

Is there something wrong with doing this?

[TrafficProducer]

Is there something wrong with doing this?


No :)

Just that the software, (freeware), above allows copy and paste HTML, (a little bit tricky sometimes), into it and creates an RSS feed. It included an FTP to post the RSS to your host.

If it's sitemaps your trying to ping out then check out:-
Webmaster Help Center - What is a Sitemap file and why should I have one? (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40318)

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=sitemaps&hl=en&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fwebmasters %2Ftools%2Fsiteoverview&nui=1


https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com

[1dmf]

Cool. I'm already have awebmaster account with G! & Y! and have my sites submitted along with XML sitemaps.

This is an articles RSS feed I'm trying to announce to the world, so the list you gave should do nicely.

just gotta write the ping script now :-)

Cheers, 1DMF

[Veikoh]

There is lot of things to do with RSS feed and your are in right tracks building your Search Engine Visibility this way. I developed the same solution with my mobile content publishing system Developing mobile web publishing platform using XML, XSLT and Perl. « Veiko Herne – lifetime entrepreneur with adventurous soul (http://veikoh.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/developing-mobile-web-publishing-platform-using-xml-xsl-and-perl/) which generates only RSS feed and Sitemap for integration.
Currently you can do following:
1. Ping your feed to technorati (techorati.com (http://www.techorati.com)). You will be surprised how several sites will include your article in their sites.
2. Open facebook (Facebook | Welcome to Facebook! (http://www.facebook.com)) profile and integrate your feed there.
3. Open as many blogs as you want and integrate your feed to those blogs. Publish once, show it for different communities.
4. Find other sites to open your profile with your feed or ask others related blogs to integrate your feed to those. Lot's of blogs and sites are only using third party content.

Remember to put your article <category> tags right. Those are most important search engine keywords at the moment with much more relevance than your META keyword tag.

[1dmf]

[qoute]Remember to put your article <category> tags right. [/quote]

Actually I was wondering about this, is there a list of pre-defined categories, or do you make one up relative to what your article is about?

I currently have this as the RSS category


<category domain="http://www.independentmortgagenetwork.co.uk">Mortgages, Insurance &amp; Loans</category>


And it is only in the channel head.

Should each item in the feed have a category or is it only the feed

[Veikoh]

I used multiple categories without a URL inside but I think, it should work with commas as you did. My RSS file looks like:
<item>
....
<category>mobile</category>
<category>animations</category>
....
</item>

BTW. I just found, that I have some bugs inside my app