Now it's time to save your RSS file and check for errors that you would not normally have to worry about in HTML.

Save your RSS feed as a plain text document and use XML as the extenstion.

IE http://www.samplesitehere.com/rss-feed.xml

Unlike HTML, XML cannot read certain keyboard characters.

- Apostrophe's cannot be read properly, so you must change them to ' - For example It's raining now becomes

It's raining.

- Quotation marks should also be changed. For example, "Help Me" turns into

"Help Me"

Step 3 Of Setting Up Your RSS Feed

In this step you need to upload your RSS feed and validate it so you know it works.

You must upload your RSS file to your root directory, which is where your homepage files are. You can create a folder in that directory called RSS or something similar and store all your related RSS files in there

IE - http://www.samplesitehere.com/rss/rss-feed.xml

Now you need to validate your RSS file to make sure everything is working properly and all the code is correct otherwise you just wasted a lot of time.

Do so at http://www.feedvalidator.org