How to create rss feed for your website

1. HOW
TO
CREATE
RSS FEEDS
AND
CHECK
IF IT IS VALID

2. WHAT IS RSS FEED ?
An RSS feed is a resource that shows the
latest content from a source and the main
thing about RSS is that it automatically
updated.
By submitting an RSS feed to different
directories, you provide another way for your
blog content to get syndicated and to distribute
your backlinks.

3. RSS feeds contain what are referred to as "items". The items are usually connected in some way
and contain a common theme or other similarity.
The following feed http://www.notepage.net/feed.xml contains items. The items are all SMS and
paging related news articles that would likely benefit someone interested in the wireless market.
Each item contains:
1) title
2) description
3) link
The title and description should be written to describe the content and the link should reference the
webpage that contains that actual content.
Like html, the xml file uses open and close tags to designate the title, description and link. Tags are
enclosed in brackets <>, like standard html and the close tag contains a forward slash /.

4. The following is what an item in a xml file looks like:
<title>The Title Goes Here</title>
<description>The description goes here</description>
<link>http://www.linkgoeshere.com</link>
Items
As I mentioned earlier, an RSS feeds contains items and like the
tags above, an open and close tag is used to distinguish between
items.
<item>
<title>The Title Goes Here</title>
<description>The description goes here</description>
<link>http://www.linkgoeshere.com</link>
</item>
<item>
<title>Another Title Goes Here</title>
<description>Another description goes here</description>
<link>http://www.anotherlinkgoeshere.com</link>
</item>

5. BASIC SYNTAX OF AN RSS FEED
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>The Channel Title Goes Here</title>
<description>The explanation of how the items are related goes here</description>
<link>http://www.directoryoflinksgohere</link>
<item>
<title>The Title Goes Here</title>
<description>The description goes here</description>
<link>http://www.linkgoeshere.com</link>
</item>
<item>
<title>Another Title Goes Here</title>
<description>Another description goes here</description>
<link>http://www.anotherlinkgoeshere.com</link>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
When you save the file be sure to save it as an xml file.

6. You can write
the code for rss
feed manually .
You can create
rss feed using
online tool too.
Lets see how to do that using online tool

7. Go to : http://www.joydeepdeb.com/tools/rss-feeds-generator.html

8. Fill up details of your website
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Rememer to give your image url
for your website here

9. Lets add feeds(your webpages) now

10. You will get a message like this when you add a new feed.

11. Once all your feeds(web pages) are added. Click on generate
feed.Copy that code and save it in as “rss.xml”

12. Save it as rss.xml

13. Upload it to your websites top level directory
example : www.example.com/rss.xml

14. Check if it uploaded on your website . You should see the following
screen if it was uploaded successfully.
Type your address

15. Now go to www.feedvalidator.org to check whether your feed is
valid or not. Just add the url of your website eg :
www.example.com/rss.xml and click on “Validate”

16. THANK
YOU