Publishing with RSS Feeds

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Using Your Blog as an RSS Feed

by Rick Hendershot, e_Marketing - (Note: some of this information may be out of date, but the techniques still work fine. There are now many other free scripts available for syndicating content to a web page. Some of the following articles may help you sort through the maze.)

Yesterday I decided to try to get my blog "feed" to show up on a couple of other websites. You can see the result at Small-Business-Online.com. Like most web programming chores, getting this to work was not as straightforward as I think it should be.

Step One. Figuring out what a "feed" is

First, it requires understanding what a blog "feed" is. It turns out that standard blogging software does this automatically. As with virtually all blogging software, this is the case with blogspot.com which I use for "Marketing Bites", and also b2evolution which I use for Biz-Blogs.com, Biz-Blogs-2.com, and The Linknet Marketing Resource Library. These automatically create a "feed" that other people can tap into and access.

Step 2. How do people access your feed?

If your blog has been automatically "syndicated" (i.e., turned into an xml file) by your blogging software -- as, I discovered, is the case with mine -- that feed will have a special address. For instance, the address for the RSS feed for my blog called "Trade Show Buzz" is "http://biz-blogs.com/b2e/xmlsrv/rss2.php?blog=2". Enter this address into your browser and you will see the xml version of the blog, as interpreted by the browser.

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