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Posted by Davιmon on 11/04/05 18:41
Cliff R. wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:51:34 +0100, Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl>
> wrote:
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>>Cliff R. wrote:
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>>>Hi, a client of mine is experimenting with RSS feeds on his site. We
>>>have the content part down OK, but there's one major issue. Once we
>>>put the feed on our site's server, how does anyone find it? How does
>>>it get out there to the public's rss readers? What's the step we are
>>>missing in order for people to know it exists?
>>>
>>>If anyone has experience with RSS we'd appreciate whatever light you
>>>could shed on the subject!
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>
>>There's two things to do afaik:
>>
>>1 - add it to the head of the html file in this form:
>><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS"
>>href="[url of rss feed]">
>>That way older FF versions will show an orange link in the bottom
>>right corner of the window, while the latest FF will show it in the
>>address bar, just like Opera shows the letters 'RSS' in white on blue
>>in that place.
>>
>>2 - place a visible link to the feed on the page. Many people use the
>>orange XML or RSS button, so by using the same form, makes it obvious
>>to those who like to read such feeds.
>
>
> Thanks for your help. I'm still a bit stuck though, how does someone
> know you are there? This way someone who comes to your site will know
> you have a feed, but how do you get someone to your site who doesn't
> already know about it? They just search for your topic, and you come
> up?
>
> Is it like a search engine, where you have to get your site listed
> somewhere?
>
Yes, there are lots of RSS-specific search engines, like
http://www.technorati.com/, or http://blogsearch.google.com/ you might
want to consider using http://pingomatic.com/ to "ping" to tell a lot of
servers that you've updated (they also list a few RSS-search tools), or
you can create a script to ping them.
but eventually, the RSS-search spiders will index your site anyway.
--
DavΓ©mon
http://www.nightsoil.co.uk
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