Adding an RSS feed to your website

Adding an RSS feed manually to your website is one of the easiest things in the world to do. If you know any basic HTML at all you will be fine and by following my instructions, you cannot go wrong. Trust me ;)

RSS feeds use the programming language called XML. XML is much more simpler then HTML is. All an XML feed does is create the title, description and link url that people using an RSS feed will see.

All your RSS feed needs is a

* Title

* Description

* Link Url

Which you can see an example of at

http://buzz.yahoo.com/feeds/buzzactm.xml

Open up a text pad or note pad on your computer and copy and paste the example below into your pad. Make sure you replace the title, description and link with your own.

The first section has information about your website, the second section has information about the article or information you are syndicating.

You can pretty much add anything you want into those fields, but keep it brief and to the point.

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<rss version="0.91">

<channel>
<title>Healthy And Vibrant Garden Hints And Tips</title>
<link>http://www.samplesitehere.com</link>
<description>Everything You Need To Know About Having The Perfect Garden</description>
<language>en-us</language>

<item>
<title>How to Rid Yourself Of Snails And Slugs In Your Garden</title>
<link>http://www.samplesitehere.com/rid-of-snails.htm</link>
<description>

Slugs and Snails, I hate them. For months on end, I was losing plants left right and center. I would wake up everyday and mysteriously my prize plants would have big holes all through out the leaves. I could how ever never find a culprit. They would strike at night while I was sleeping and I was completely helpless to save my plants.

So what can we do to stop these killers in their tracks. Good question There are three types of repellents you can use. They are....

</description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

The most important thing is to make sure you close off all your TAGS.