Sunday, June 14, 2009

Redirecting Your Feed to Feedburner

If you have chosen to burn a feed using Feedburner (which is required if you are running a program such as Adsense), you will have to either manually change all of your links to the new feedburner links, (which will be something like http://feeds2.feedburner.com/[whatever the name of your feed is]), or use a program for your current CMS to do this automatically. If you are using Blogger there is an option under the Settings tab to insert your new feed link which will in turn redirect automatically. You can also do this by using a 301 or 302 redirect in your .htaccess file.

Monday, June 1, 2009

How Can I Read an RSS Feed?

There are a couple of different ways to 'subscribe to' or read an RSS feed. There are some downloadable feed reading software programs (free or paid) as well as online applications, such as Google's online application.

What is an RSS Feed?

An RSS Feed is a way of syndicating, that is distributing content, or updates to websites (such as new blog posts) easily across the internet. A Feed is formatted in a certain manner, according to Internet standards, which is supposed to not change between different feeds. A Feed can be read by a feed reader, to allow users to easily view updates to a website for example, all directly from the feed. You can see an example of a feed by clicking on the 'Subscribe to' button on this site.

There are many different types of feeds such as Atom, XML, and RSS, each with their own unique format and standards.

About All About RSS Feeds

Here at All About RSS Feeds, you can find all the information you want on RSS feeds, Atom feeds, XML feeds, and any feed in general.