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How to Make your RSS Feeds Pop in WordPress

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I got this idea from reading Darren Rowse’s entry, How to Make Your RSS Feeds POP Using Images

The hack will add a nice graphic to accompany your RSS feeds to make it “POP”.

First open the wp-rss2.php file located in the root directory of your WordPress Installation.

Find a line that have something like this.

<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=<?php bloginfo_rss('version'); ?> </generator>
<language><?php echo get_option('rss_language'); ?<

Then add these lines directly below it.


<image>
    <url>http://yourwebsite.com/img/feedpop.png</url>
    <title>Your website name  </title>
    <link>http://yourwebsite.com/</link>
</image>



upload the file back to the webserver, and you shall have an RSS feed with a nice graphic on it.

example : http://blog.fakap.net/rss.xml


 Why dont you use WordPress Plugins

Using excessive plugins may slow down your WordPress blog installation, upgrades tends to be troublesome on plugins-ladden WordPress blog.


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Get updates for website that does not publish RSS feed

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I’m frustrated at some websites (particularly news website) that do not publish RSS feed, because this makes my life harder when I have to surf their website almost everyday for latest updates.

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It is a time consuming work, especially when they do not update their website regularly as anticipated, and when they do update, you are usually the last person to know about the updates.

Page2RSS and Feedity might provide the answer for those who shared my feelings about those websites. These service generates RSS feeds for websites that do not publish RSS feeds.

With these service, all you need to do is subscribe the RSS feed provided by both service, and wait for updates. It will make your life easier by performing the checkup on your behalf, and inform you if there’s any updates on your RSS feed.

I’ve tried both services, although by far it is not perfect, It does save my time from having to surf my favorite websites for updates.
[tags] rss, feed, syndication,blogs,scraping,seo[/tags]

Promote your website at 500words.com

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What is best best way to describe your website other than words? Research shows that text links have higher chances of getting a click than banner advertisment.

For that same reason, Joel Comm launched 500words.com, a website modelled after the infamous milliondollarhomepage, except that it’s in pure-text links.

This means that your link has higher chances of being included in search engine results rather than pixel based onemilliondollarhomepage.

For those who don’t know, Joel Comm is a famous netpreneur that has written various money-making book on the internet. He know how to promote a website, so I guess 500words is in good hands to start with.

For those who eager to promote their website, head now to 500words.com and claim your keywords there.
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Turn your feed as web ticker

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For some who might still wondering what RSS feed can be use for, then wonder no more. I’m not going to lecture you about the usefulness of RSS/Atom feed to you as I believe there’s alot of other websites that can explain better than me.

What I’m going to tell you is a website that can allow you to turn any RSS feed as ticker. Yes, that’s right the thing that scroll on your screen.

Basically what you need to do is

  1. Add your RSS Feed
  2. Choose Horizontal/Vertical Ticker
  3. CUstomise ticker color to blend with your website
  4. Generate Code (asp/php/html)
  5. Paste it to your website

As simple as that, happy tickering. Ah, the website that allow you to do that is Ticker My Feed

[tags]rss,feed,atom,weblog,blog,syndication[/tags]