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index.html Feed Help chanage catagory

Feed Help: index.html; Feed Help; chanage catagory. index.html By Craig from New Zealand 4 comments. I have submitted my rss and I received an email saying there is no catagory information.[1] When I try to give it one it is already in a catagory of 'energy' and there is no option to change it.[2] There is a subcatagory option for 'energy' but my site is 'entertainment' or 'gaming'.[3] How do I change it when there is no option to do ...
---Last comment Sat Feb 23 18:54:40 2008 by Gregor from Utah:
I am located in Utah, USA and my feed deals with the "Food" category.[1] I am also listed under "Northern Territory Australia" Category: "Energy" sub-category: "Solar".[2] There is absolutely no correlation between my feed and this categorization.[3] And of course there is no way to change the categorization on the site.[4] I too need to know how this can be changed.[5] - Is there actually any logic behind the categorization or does everyone automatically get ...

Atom vs RSS KISS RSS, KILL ATOM

Atom vs RSS: ; Atom vs RSS; KISS RSS, KILL ATOM . By Bill 7 comments. Now some "big names" I won't name are saying Atom is the way to go.[1] I disagree.[2] The primary reason is SIMPLE.[3] It's called KISS -- Keep It SIMPLE Stupid Look up what RSS stands for if you don't remember, but the primary keyword that stands out is "SIMPLE".[4] It's true too.[5] RSS is simply simple That is clearly why it has gathered the audience and use it has.[6] Now atom is simply convoluted.[7] It's too complicated.[8] It makes a simple task more complicated that necessary that would be in the creation or parsing of the feeds .[9] Big names aside the choice is simple: KISS RSS KILL ATOM ...
---Last comment Sun Feb 11 21:16:39 2007 by Gan Uesli Starling:
The link is my own Atom feed, which was brain dead simple to create following a single example of someone else's own simple Atom feed.[1] The XSLT required to view it in a plain Jane browser is more complex than the feed itself.[2] Sure, there is complexity for those who need/desire it.[3] But complexity is in no way ...

RSS SEO RSS SEO SEO via Duplicate Content

RSS SEO: RSS SEO; RSS SEO; SEO via Duplicate Content. RSS SEO By Joe from Dallas, Texas That sounds like an absurd suggestion and it is exactly what SEO by RSS is.[1] The GOAL of RSS is to spread identical content far and wide with no effort.[2] "no effort" = "no results" in SEO. ...

Blog Feeds Blog Feeds Full Feeds

Blog Feeds: Blog Feeds; Blog Feeds; Full Feeds. Blog Feeds By peeling from In front of my computer 3 comments. Hi, Blogsot has two options for feeds - full feeds full content of the post or short feeds title and short description .[1] Now, blogspot says that Adsense for feeds is in beta testing, and I'm not allowed to sign up.[2] So there's not much point selecting the full feed, and I selected the short feed.[3] Now, technorati does not accept pings from short atom feeds.[4] They want full feeds.[5] What do I ...
---Last comment Fri Dec 1 22:40:03 2006 by peeling from In front of my computer:
Just letting you know that I changed to full feeds for now.[1] Techorati is accepting pings and we'll see how it goes from here.[2] Maybe I should create another feed with short titles and descriptions.[3] Anyone know how I can do that on ... Tags: blogspot_feeds_atom_full_short

Blog Feeds NON-Commercial Use - RSS Feeds

Blog Feeds: ; Blog Feeds; NON-Commercial Use - RSS Feeds. By star123 Can anyone please tell me how non-commercial uses would be defined for the use of RSS feeds on my website Basically, I want to use some news rss feeds from Yahoo on my website.[1] I do not sell anything on my website except for advertising space.[2] I wrote to Yahoo to ask for permission and they wrote me back with their general "can be used for non-commercial uses etc." I wrote back and asked them specifically about the use their rss feed on my site and how they define "non-commercial" use.[3] Yahoo responded to me saying that they can not define non-commercial use for me because of legal issues and that the use of their RSS feeds on my site is my call.[4] They did not say no, but they did not say yes.[5] I also formally asked Google at their Permissions Department by filling out the specified form ...

Atom vs RSS Are some sites only Atom

Atom vs RSS: ; Atom vs RSS; Are some sites only Atom . By star123 I'm having someone build me a "news site" and I need to understand something: Are there sites like blogs that only supply an Atom feed, and no RSS There are plenty of scripts that do RSS, but only some that do both RSS and Atom.[1] If I could knew that I could always expect to find an RSS feed or at least 95% of the time , it will help me make my decision on choosing the ...

RSS SEO Does anybody know some RSS spiders

RSS SEO: ; RSS SEO; Does anybody know some RSS spiders . By star123 Does anybody know if there are other spiders/grabbers like FeedZcollector that write feed-content to a database MS Access, Foxpro, MySQL of SQL Server I am trying to make a list of them.[1] ...

Feed Tips RSS, URL s, Meta tags and bellyaches

Feed Tips: ; Feed Tips; RSS, URL's, Meta tags and bellyaches. By star123 At the moment we provide a rubbish RSS service to our website users.[1] and we want to improve it 200%.[2] The XML is not validated to any standard, its url is not picked up in Windows Live, or Google Toolbars.[3] I think this is due the it being invalid and maybe the way we call the rss.[4] We do it like this at the moment...[5] Domain address/feed.aspx entityid=15 and articleurl=detail.aspx and cachettl=0 Would it be better if presented like this and it was an actuall file sitting on the server Domain address/topic/rss/feed.rss Apart from us having to get our feed to be valid do you think that dynamically calling the RSS is better than their actually be a rss file sitting on the server Does the URL make a difference Also, I m wondering if there are any specific pros and cons to providing RSS feeds to ...

Feed Syndication help with syndication

Feed Syndication: ; Feed Syndication; help with syndication. By star123 I am new to this forum, and to the RSS thing I have some feeds, specifically podcasts, that are done by a friend of mine, that are already out there, available in RSS how do I get those on my site, so that visitors to my site may click through to his feeds is there a piece of code that I insert please ...

XML Good site for everything about XML

XML: ; XML; Good site for everything about XML. By John 1 comments. I found this website that will get you started with just about everything you want to know about XML and probably lots you don't want to know.[1] Not surprisingly it's...[2] XML.com ...
---Last comment Fri Dec 1 06:30:10 2006 by star123:
Thanks John for link.[1] I learn many things from here and I used XML in my friend's website.[2] I think everyone should try this ...

XML XML feeds

XML: ; XML; XML feeds. By star123 I wrote a code in php which can parse the xml feed and fill the data in my database.[1] But i have to run that code manually everyday.[2] Is there any way by which that code can run automatically ...

Feed Help Best way to setup a feed

Feed Help: ; Feed Help; Best way to setup a feed. By star123 Are there any options to effortlessly setup a FEED for a static site.[1] It should not involve much work and also as i add more static pages, it should be able to pickup the newly added articles.[2] Is this really possible Important thing is to avoid more work every time, i add articles/pages to the site.[3] Thanks for any ...

Feed Help Feeding others RSS to create own RSS

Feed Help: ; Feed Help; Feeding others RSS to create own RSS. By star123 I once saw a website Site A feed another site Site B RSS and create a new RSS.[1] By subscribe to the Site A RSS, I will see Site B RSS content but with a few sentences/advertisement under the new RSS.[2] I wish to know how he do that And I fully understand its infringe copyright and just with to know the theory behind ...

RSS SEO RSS Sitemap

RSS SEO: ; RSS SEO; RSS Sitemap. By star123 I run a 1, 600 page site.[1] Currently I add new pages to the RSS feed by hand.[2] However I'd like to make it into a sitemap instead.[3] What can I use to do this automatically with the info automatically filled in from title/description tags .[4] I tried a PHP script that claimed to do this, but due to the large number of pages - it required more than my web host allocates me for memory.[5] Does anyone know of a Windows program or script that does this Is incorporating every page on your site into a RSS feed a good idea or ...

Feed Help Problems With Yahoo Refresh of RSS

Feed Help: ; Feed Help; Problems With Yahoo Refresh of RSS. By star123 A couple of questions: 1 When I try to ping Yahoo to tell them my RSS feed is updated I get an error: "Refresh failed.[1] Feed not found: www.mysite.com/rss/myfeed.xml" I am using "api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping u=www.mysite.com/rss/myfeed.xml" to do the ping.[2] I thought maybe I had a bad XML/RSS document, but I ran it through feed validator.[3] I also copied another site's XML/RSS doc and put it in place of mine.[4] The ping also failed for it.[5] 2 What I really want to do is have the Yahoo RSS reader not do any caching and just look for refreshes on some regular basis 5 minutes .[6] My RSS feeds are custom created for each user so there is no use caching and proxying them.[7] If I use "RSS Reader" or my own RSS widget things work just fine.[8] Yahoo is just being too clever and its reader never sees my ...

Feed Tips generate javascript

Feed Tips: ; Feed Tips; generate javascript. By star123 Hello I just found a good site where you can generate javascript.[1] itde.vccs.edu/rss2js/build.php Just complete the form and ...

Feed Basics What is RSS

Feed Basics: ; Feed Basics; What is RSS . By John 1 comments. RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs.[1] But it's not just for news.[2] Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book.[3] Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.[4] Read the rest from XML.com ...
---Last comment Fri Dec 1 06:21:45 2006 by star123:
Nice info there.[1] Well for me, RSS is the element that makes a blog different from the old-style static website.[2] The initials stand for 'Really Simple Syndication' also Rich Site Summary - pick the one you like .[3] What it does is announce changes to the website by creating a "feed" that can be read by the spider from an aggregator such as Bloglines or ...

Feed Basics making an rss feed

Feed Basics: ; Feed Basics; making an rss feed. By joe 5 comments. How can I make an rss feed for my website ...
---Last comment Fri Dec 1 06:19:54 2006 by STAR123:
Thanks peeling.[1] This is great information.[2] I have big problem last month but now I solve ...

Atom vs RSS RSS and Atom - Both a bad idea

Atom vs RSS: ; Atom vs RSS; RSS and Atom - Both a bad idea . By Ed 1 comments. The question which is better might be irrelevant if one simply used both RSS and Atom on their website.[1] However, I might surmise that could be a bad idea and you will end up with two different items of identical content.[2] Is using both worse than chosing just one format ...
---Last comment Fri Dec 1 04:52:33 2006 by peeling from In front of my computer:
Never thought of it that way - That you end up with two different items of identical content.[1] I'm linking to both the RSS and atom feed from my blog home page.[2] Dunno why, but only atom page is getting spidered by all the search engines.[3] They simply ignore the RSS feed. ...

Tags and Tagging How to Create Tags in Wordpress

Tags and Tagging: ; Tags and Tagging; How to Create Tags in Wordpress. By Jim 2 comments. Here is a great article on creating tags in wordpress.[1] When pinged or as part of their normal schedule, search engines and tag services send out crawlers to your blog which scan your entire post and add it their directory.[2] If they have a feature that recognizes the rel="tag" in a link as a tag, it adds your tags to a section in their database, and your tags help them to categorize your post.[3] Click the link to read the ...
---Last comment Thu Nov 30 05:47:45 2006 by sams from RSSWorld:
Thanks for sharing the link.[1] It will help a lot in my understanding of tags.[2] I have just started using ...

Atom vs RSS The obvious question

Atom vs RSS: ; Atom vs RSS; The obvious question. By Ed 1 comments. Which IS better Atom or RSS And more importantly, WHY ...
---Last comment Thu Nov 30 05:42:57 2006 by sams from RSSWorld:
I feel both RSS and Atom holds their own space.[1] For an end user it does not matter much whether or not the feed is in RSS or Atom but for developers RSS might be easy to work ...

News Readers News Readers How Feed Reader works

News Readers: News Readers; News Readers; How Feed Reader works. News Readers By sams from RSSWorld When you give the RSS feed link to your feed reader, the feed reader reads from the source location and populate your reader with a brief summary of the ...

Feed Promotion Feed Promotion Feedster help

Feed Promotion: Feed Promotion; Feed Promotion; Feedster help. Feed Promotion By peeling from In front of my computer Hi, How do I add my feed to feedster.com.[1] I've gone through their help at least three times, and I can't find a place to add my feed.[2] It just says "find out if your feed is being indexed or not." and mine isn't.[3] I've sent them a contact email, but no response.[4] Anyone have any ... Tags: feedster feed submission promotion

Blog Feeds Blog Feeds Adding a Blog feed to Yahoo Site Explorer

Blog Feeds: Blog Feeds; Blog Feeds; Adding a Blog feed to Yahoo Site Explorer. Blog Feeds By peeling from In front of my computer http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ It's much the same as Google's webmaster tools and sitemap section.[1] Only thing is, Google allows you to authenticate a site or blog using meta tags.[2] Yahoo has no such thing, and you need to upload a file using FTP to your site root directory.[3] How do you do that if you're using a free blog host like Blogspot I submitted my blog and blog feed, but unless I authenticate it, I have no idea of knowing if it's having any effect.[4] Seems kinda dumb of Yahoo, but maybe someone has any idea of how to authenticate a Blogger blog on yahoo's site ... Tags: blog feed yahoo_site_explorer submit blogspot sitemaps

RSS Marketing Automatically import RSS content into WordPress

RSS Marketing: ; RSS Marketing; Automatically import RSS content into WordPress. By star123 I have written a very compact and easy to install script for WordPress that will automatically import RSS feed content into your WordPress 2.0 or higher web site.[1] Just set it up once by customizing a simple config file, and it will keep fresh content on your sites.[2] It only runs the import process once every [specified_interval], so it won't slow your sites or make a million RSS calls.[3] You can specify for each feed a url, optional keywords, the status of posts, category, author, and max imports per run.[4] Each feed can have unique settings.[5] It's very flexible.[6] I actually just finished it a few days ago.[7] I've been using it myself, and it is working great, but it is new, so let me know if you have any problems with it.[8] I'll be checking back with this thread for a while.[9] Also, please let me ...

RSS SEO RSS Feed Item Titles

RSS SEO: ; RSS SEO; RSS Feed Item Titles. By star123 The item titles should be 50-75 characters with spaces.[1] In order to increase readability and compatibility with news readers, the RSS feed item titles should not be encoded with any HTML.[2] Think of an RSS feed item title in the same way that you would a webpage title.[3] The RSS feed item title is your opportunity to capture the interest of your reader.[4] Really an RSS feed item title is nothing more than a headline.[5] The most effective item titles are calls to action that grab the readers attention.[6] Include pertinent keywords or keyword phrases in the items title and this will help any individuals doing deep feed searches for specific ...

RSS SEO Anchor Text

RSS SEO: ; RSS SEO; Anchor Text. By star123 Using RSS feeds, publishers have the unique opportunity to determine the anchor text that will be used to link to internal website pages.[1] RSS feeds are often syndicated, and even more often compelling feed items will often be re posted by other publishers.[2] With that in mind, when including links back to a website in the item description field, use anchor text that is a relevant keyword or phrase.[3] Anchor text is one factor that search engines use in determining a website's ranking for specific keywords and ...

RSS SEO Optimize RSS

RSS SEO: ; RSS SEO; Optimize RSS. By star123 Optimize all aspects of the web feed.[1] While the feed should be optimized for search engines, using the same techniques a webmaster uses on a website, the optimization should not be at the readers expense.[2] The content in an RSS feed is often what leads readers to click or not click through.[3] Readers will judge RSS feeds on the quality of the content.[4] This means that grammar and punctuation do matter.[5] Consistent grammatical errors will reduce the writers credibility and the number of ...

Feed Tips Channel Title for SEO

Feed Tips: ; Feed Tips; Channel Title for SEO. By star123 The channel title in your RSS feed is one of the most important aspect.[1] The channel title should be keyword rich and contain information related to the general theme of the RSS feed.[2] In order to maximize compatibility with RSS readers, it is best not to include any HTML in the channel title.[3] The channel title is a website visitors first glimpse at the RSS feed, so its important to make an impression and attract the interest of casual browsers.[4] Additionally, many of the RSS feed directories and search engines use the information contained in the RSS feed's channel title and description to index the feed.[5] In order for the feed to be properly categorized, it is important that the information contained in these fields be relevant to the contents contained in the feed.[6] If included at all, the ...

Feed Tips RSS Feed Creation Tips

Feed Tips: ; Feed Tips; RSS Feed Creation Tips. By star123 1. Title - The title should really be no longer than 10-12 words.[1] Use the title as a headline to attract interest.[2] 2. Description - Descriptions are generally summaries, provide additional information to entice the reader to click through for the full information if it is a topic that is of interest to them.[3] Provide enough teaser copy that they can easily discern if its something that is important to them.[4] 3. Subscribe - This might seem obvious but a surprisingly large number of publishers do not subscribe to their own feed.[5] This is a great way to visualize what your customers see, and experiment with formatting and integrating html into feeds.[6] 4. Image - An image adds so much to the feed, identify your corporate image and dress up the look of your feed by adding your corporate ...