Introduction to RSS Tutorial: Putting Your RSS Feed on the Web
Putting Your RSS Feed on the Web
This section of the RSS Tutorial will explain how to put your RSS feed online, After you've created your feed, its time to put it on the web so others can subscribe to it. But before you do that, you need to validate the feed to be certain that it was done correctly. Here are the steps:
- Give your RSS feed a name. It can be anything as long as it ends in the extension .xml. For example, your feed could be named "anyfeed.xml". Your feed MUST have a .xml extension.
- Upload your feed to a web server
- Validate your feed. This means finding a good validator, submitting the URL for your RSS file, and making sure your feed is valid.
- Upload your finished RSS file to a web server.
- If you have a web page, put the little orange RSS or XML buttons on your web site. They should be linked to your RSS file. The code should look something like this:
<a href="http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/rssfeed.xml">
<img src="http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/images/rss.gif></a>
- Submit your RSS feed to the RSS feed directories. The URL to your feed should be the path to your XML file on your web server. Once uploaded to a server, you can submit your feed to any number of RSS aggregation services.
- Register your feed with the major search engines.
How to Validate Your RSS File to Be Sure It is Written Correctly
One you have the full address of your RSS file you can use any number of validator tools to validate the code.
FeedValidator.org at http://feedvalidator.org
RSS Scripting at http://rss.scripting.com
Enter the full address to your RSS file that you uploaded to the server. The feed validator will examine the code in the rss file and will let you know if it’s okay or whether or not you need to correct something. If necessary, go back to your text editor and make any edits suggested by the feed validator, then upload the RSS file to the server again and check the validation until it’s correct.
Once your podcast RSS file has been validated, all you have to do is provide the address of your RSS file to anyone who wants to subscribe to your podcast. It’s that simple. If you want to advertise your podcast, you can list it in any number of directories that are available on the Internet so people know it’s there and can subscribe to it.
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