need help with feedburner and RSS

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by zenite, Apr 18, 2008.

  1. #1
    ok, I been doing websites for quite some time but never bothered with RSS since I don't do blogs. Now that times have changed and I decided to add RSS feed to one of my normal website. Normal as in, it is not a blog. just a regular website. so how do I add RSS to it? I tried reading online tutorials but it is too hard to understand. they keep talking about blogs and what RSS stands for and I had no idea what are they trying to say.

    so please help me by explaining how to add a RSS feed to a normal website. I am sure its possible but harder. I uploaded a feed.xml with the following:

      
    <?xml version="1.0" ?> 
     <rss version="2.0">
     <channel>
      <title>My Website</title> 
      <link>http://domain.com</link> 
      <description>Welcome to my website.</description> 
      <language>en-us</language> 
      <copyright>Copyright 2008</copyright> 
      <lastBuildDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:11:44 -0400</lastBuildDate> 
      <docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs> 
     <item>
      <title>The New Article: Blah</title> 
      <link>http://domain.com/article/abc.html</link> 
      <description>This articles talks about...</description> 
      </item>
      </channel>
      </rss>
    HTML:
    so thats all to it? I add a feedburner subscription box to my website. it is the "Email when website is updated" service they had. so if theres a change in my RSS feed, they will email my subscribers about the updates and ask them to visit my site to see the new content. I tried it but had no emails send to my inbox (I subscribe myself to test it). how does all these work? would appreciate help here.
     
    zenite, Apr 18, 2008 IP