I Figured Out How to Write VALID RSS FEEDS + Best Directories!

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PHP Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>

<title>TITLE IN TITLE BAR</title>
<link>http://yoursite.com</link>
<description>A MAD LIST OF LINKS TO BACKLINKS!</description>

<item><title>BACKLINK 1</title>
<link>http://goarticles.com/cgi-bin/author</link>
<guid>http://goarticles.com/cgi-bin/author</guid></item>


<item><title>BACKLINK 2</title>
<link>http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=</link>
<guid>http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=</guid></item>

<atom:link href="http://yoursite.com/feeds/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /></channel>
</rss>




HTML Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"    xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>
<title>Testing Testing Testing</title>
<link>http://www.scrapebox.com</link>
<description>How to write an UBER simple RSS Feed</description>
<item>
<title>Free Proxies</title>
<link>http://onhousearrest.net</link>
<description>The description can be the same as title... Or keyword STUFFED!</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:53:27 -0600</pubDate>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
#search engine optimization #directories #feeds #figured #rss #valid #write
  • Thanks for this Scott. I don't understand it all, but thanks!

    To be clear, for each link that you want to be in the RSS feed, you need to insert a block that looks like this:
    Code:
     
    Right?  So, with 50 links, you would have 50 blocks that each look exactly like that (except the "goarticles..." thing is different)?
     
    
Are these links RSS feeds themselves (your goarticles example seems to be?), or can they be just regular HTML links?  Can this "transform" regular HTML pages into RSS, the way that HTML2RSS claims?
     
    
Then, I upload the XML file to a website I control.  Then, I submit THAT link to the RSS directories, right?
     
    
Are you submitting them manually?  It seems you started talking about software, but then didn't pick up that bit of the story again.
     
    
Sorry if my questions are dumb - I am still trying to wrap my head around the mechanics of RSS.
     
    
Thanks!
     
    
Best Regards, Georgetta
            
     
       
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                No questions are dumb! I'm glad I could be of some assistance! It was a lot harder than you would imagine to manually build an RSS Feed that looks like a Feedburner Feed - and that is ACCEPTABLE to all directories (HTML2RSS generated Feeds are NOT).
       
      
You know how you always hear people say "backlink your backlinks - make an RSS feed." Well, I don't know what tool they're using and I'm not going to pay for one  Plus, I like to have full control of my stuff! Lol!
       
      
Yes each <item> block is one link - so if you want 50 links you copy + paste 50 of those blocks and edit. It is time consuming but it is worth it to me. The URLs in my example are only partial b/c they were pointing to my Article Directory Author Profiles.
       
      
RSSNitrous is a pretty cool RSS submitter that is free. RSSBot is ok... it's $30.
       
      
I just manually submit to the directories I listed. It's pretty simple.
            
       
         
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                Hey there Scott.
     
    
High five man. 
     
    
I was finding out about the entire RSS thing. I know how you feel inside out. 
     
    
You are right. The free method doesn't work to my liking as well. 
     
    
Your simplistic code was validated by The W3C Markup Validation Service (choose Validate by Direct Input)
     
    
Now I don't need to use RSSmix.com anymore.
            
     
       
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                Where do you think I got the  from?!??!  
       
         
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                Sure. Thanks for the code. hehe
            
     
       
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                This looks awesome!!! I just can't get my head around how to do this!!! I know very little about html coding. Need to get together with ya to figure this out!!
            
     
       
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                It's really pretty simple - completely foreign at first. You'd be surprised by how much you can learn from dissecting other web pages. That's probably why I don't like PHP (Wordpress) b/c I'm not real familiar with PHP script! I like to get my hands INSIDE the script - that's how I know how to optimize 
       
      
Plus, knowing a little HTML comes in very handy! You can include backlinks in the body of your posts linking a word or two or three. Here's a tutorial LOL! Copy the HTML below and paste it into Notepad. Now save it to your desktop as (type it in) "example.html" Double click it and it will open up in your browser and you can see what all the "code" does. If you want to edit the code - "open with" notepad or wordpad or whatever.
       
       
       
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      <html>
<head>
<title>this is the name of my page!</title
</head>
<body>
<p>That "p" means we're starting a paragraph. This is the body of your text. Say I want to make a word <strong>BOLD</strong> - or <em>ITALICIZED</em> or <u>UNDLERLINED</u> or <s>STRIKETHROUGH</s> or <s><strong><em><u>ALL OF THEM</s></strong></em></u>!!! Now lets end this paragraph and start a new one.</p>
<p>Now let's create a hyperlink. The anchor text in our link will be the keywords we are trying to rank for in Google! Search engines like it when our keywords are linked: <a href="http://www.dehumidifiersforhomereviews.net/" target="_blank">Dehumidifiers for Home Reviews</a>.</p>
The "target="_blank"" means the link will open in a new window. most of the time I don't use the "p" tags, I'll just seperate my paragraphs/lines with a BREAKS.
<br /><br /><br />
That was 3 line breaks. This is enough basic HTML for you to know so that you can make comments or posts somewhere with your backlinks inserted into them :)
</body>
</html>
<body>
       
       
       
         
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                Do you enter the same urls in the link and guid tags like this:
     
    
<link>http://google.com</link>
    
<guid>http://google.com</guid>
     
    
And what does guid tag stand for?
            
     
       
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                sounds great I will really have to try this soon
            
     
       
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                Great job on learning something new... that's of more value than any program you purchase and nice of you to share your findings with the community.  
     
    
If anyone wants a great free program for doing this, I use RSSeditor.  It works wonderfully well.
            
     
       
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                Thanks for sharing the RSS feed code. Very helpful for RSS making.
            
       
         
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                Great post. Thanks for sharing your informative thoughts. Good insights. Looking forward for more tips & updates.
            
     
       
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                great pots, it gave me more insight on rss knowledge 
    
however when usually one question gets solved the next appears 
     
    
what would be the difference when submitting your feeds to rss directories, between:
    
when making one rss feed out of one http://.....
     
    
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when making feeds out of multiple http://... adresses
     
    
really confused here on which model of above to follow when working on link juice on my backlinks  :confused:
     
    
thank you,
    
Klemen
            
     
       
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                An informative method you have scott g but there are still other members that are not getting the point on this strategy. Anyway thanks for this usable post my friend.
            
     
       
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                Here is question, do you use your domain to store your RSS feeds, or do you put them on a different website?
     
    
Regards,
    
Clint
            
     
       
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                And my question is why did you set a backlink in the green smiley face in the opening post? Could that be considered spam?
     
    
Edir: the link goes to avandia.lawsuitinformation (dot) org/
            
     
       
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                So does this technique turn the pages listed in the links into feed format?   I thought a feed was a constantly updated summary of a website?  Does the website have to be set up as a feed first before you can link to it?  The links in the document should be to the pages that your backlinks are on?  Thanks for any help, I'm having a hard time grasping this subject.
            
     
       
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                That is excellent.Many thanks.I m gonna try this.
            
     
       
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                Adding in.. You may use MS Excel so that it makes it easier for you to change the Titles and URLs.. You may PM me for the format..  
     
       
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                Hey there i just finished creating bookmarks xml file and uploading to the server and my question now is how can i noffolow this, add rel=noffolow to this?
     
    
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                  I know no one really cares about this, but it took me FOREVER to figure this out!! So I want to share this information with SOMEONE! LOL!  
 
The online feed creators HTML2RSS/Ponyfish and sites like them don't do the job. The paid programs (RSSBot & something else...) that I have don't get the job done how I want it (I didn't pay much, should have never paid at all).
                
     
     
     
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