Need help implimenting rss feeds

Discussion in 'XML & RSS' started by gingeman, Jul 19, 2006.

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    Hi! I would like to add a relevant rss feed to my website, http://www.theo-walcott.info - on the index page where there is a box for latest news. If anybody is able to help me with this please let me know.
    I am also looking for any tips to seo the site better for the term 'theo walcott' - it is low on the first page of google but i haven't any web design skills- I'm a domainer really.

    Thanks
     
    gingeman, Jul 19, 2006 IP
  2. JEET

    JEET Notable Member

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    I'm not sure what you want, but here's a portion of an article I wrote sometime ago.
    I assume you want to know how to create RSS feeds...

    Easy way to Add rss xml feed to your site.

    Let's not talk about the history and definition here but start on the process of adding a RSsS XML feed to our site. If you want history etc. Just do a google search for adding rss to your site and all you will find is the history. How relevant...

    Let's begin...
    Open a text editor like notepad. You can use notepad found in windows.

    You will need three parameters to be mentioned which are:
    TITLE,
    DESCRIPTION,
    LINK.

    Title will contain a small one line heading about the subject like:
    <title> marketing </title>
    Description holds the description like:

    <description> A study of internet based marketing and is open for all to read .</description>

    Link contains the URL of the resulting page where all the information is available like:
    <link> http://www.v7ndotcomelursrebmemweb.com </link>

    So now we have :
    <title> marketing </title>
    <description> A study of internet based marketing and is open for all to read .</description>
    <link> http://www.v7ndotcomelursrebmemweb.com </link>

    The whole thing is called an ITEM and must be enclosed within <item> </item> resulting in :
    <item>
    <title> marketing </title>
    <description> A study of internet based marketing and is open for all to read .</description>
    <link> http://www.v7ndotcomelursrebmemweb.com </link>
    </item>

    You can have a maximum of 15 items in one XML Feed. In addition to the above you must also specify the XML version you have used in the feed which will be the following code:

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <rss version="2.0">
    <channel>

    </channel>

    The above ITEM and other ITEMS will go between the <channel> and </channel> tags. Finally we have the following in our notepad file :


    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <rss version="2.0">
    <channel>
    <item>
    <title> marketing </title>
    <description> A study of internet based marketing and is open for all to read .</description>
    <link> http://www.v7ndotcomelursrebmemweb.com </link>
    </item>

    <item>
    <title> Blog </title>
    <description> Latest articles are posted on the blog </description>
    <link> http://designer.ad4business.com </link>
    </item>

    <item>
    <title> Third title</title>
    <description> Third description</description>
    <link> related URL </link>
    </item>

    </channel>


    Save this file as a .XML file and upload to your server. Now simply link to this file from any page where you want to make the RSS available. Most people use an Orange XML image to do this while some also use a blue image while many use a simple text link including me. There are no specifications on this. The file name can also be anything until it is a XML file meaning .XML extension. The orange image although is the most popular form of linking to your xml feed.

    Congratulations ! there you have a ready to go RSS XML feed for your site. When you publish a rss feed, consider validating it at http://feedvalidator.org/



    If this doesn't help, let me know what you want and may be I can help somehow!!!
    Bye :)
     
    JEET, Jul 19, 2006 IP
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    GRex Well-Known Member

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    If you like a simple option without programming, try onelurv. All that ask of you is to embed a code into your page (like YouTube).
     
    GRex, Jul 20, 2006 IP
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    gingeman Peon

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    That is a very useful tutorial jeet, and one i shall use elsewhere. I actually want to take a feed from another site and place it on my own though.
     
    gingeman, Jul 20, 2006 IP
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    JEET Notable Member

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    In that case use PHP to first read the feed, then display in html on your website. I did that once just for fun. If you want, I can do it for you. Send me the feed URL and I will see what I can do...

    I found where I uploaded it. see it here . I just tried for fun. The words "home business" are added by me to links. It's not there in xml feed...
    The feed has 10 entries, I didn't read all, just a few to see how it works.
    Bye :)
     
    JEET, Jul 20, 2006 IP