Re: Placing and promoting RSS feeds

Ignoramus31199 <ignoramus31199 (AT) NOSPAM (DOT) 31199.invalid> wrote:

I created four RSS news feeds for my site. They are there and they
seem to work. No one can see them because I am not yet promoting them
in any way. I know where they are, so I am subscribed to them to see if
they work.

These feeds are script driven and are fed from a special SQL
table. The table is populated when certain content is added or
deleted.

The RSS feeds are only useful for users of my site. They are of no
interest to people who do not intend to use my site (such as answering
math questions from children).

I heard that having RSS feed is viewed favorably by internet gods such
as google. Is that true?

Regardless, where should I place links to my feeds?

Go to http://johnbokma.com/ and do "view source". Look at the head part.

Right now I
created a special subdirectory with a single page listing my RSS feeds,
with links to the feed XML files.

Is that good enough? Should I bother with adding RSS tag to the
headers of some of my pages? They do it at craigslist:

Yes, see http://johnbokma.com/firefox/rss-and...bookmarks.html
Firefox users can subscribe very easy this way. IE7 will have RSS support,
so plan ahead :-)

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John Bokma wrote:

Ignoramus31199 <ignoramus31199 (AT) NOSPAM (DOT) 31199.invalid> wrote:

I created four RSS news feeds for my site. They are there and they
seem to work. No one can see them because I am not yet promoting them
in any way. I know where they are, so I am subscribed to them to see if
they work.

These feeds are script driven and are fed from a special SQL
table. The table is populated when certain content is added or
deleted.

The RSS feeds are only useful for users of my site. They are of no
interest to people who do not intend to use my site (such as answering
math questions from children).

I heard that having RSS feed is viewed favorably by internet gods such
as google. Is that true?

Regardless, where should I place links to my feeds?

Go to http://johnbokma.com/ and do "view source". Look at the head part.

Right now I
created a special subdirectory with a single page listing my RSS feeds,
with links to the feed XML files.

Is that good enough? Should I bother with adding RSS tag to the
headers of some of my pages? They do it at craigslist:

Yes, see http://johnbokma.com/firefox/rss-and...bookmarks.html
Firefox users can subscribe very easy this way. IE7 will have RSS support,
so plan ahead :-)

Your message arrived only a minute before mine and it contains almost
identical details to mine. I must confess that it was you who inspired me
to take advantage of live bookmarks. Time will tell if it has made much
impact. I suppose there have been no studies or surveys on this subject
unless I'm just narrow-minded.

Roy

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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups (AT) schestowitz (DOT) com> wrote:

Your message arrived only a minute before mine and it contains almost
identical details to mine. I must confess that it was you who inspired
me to take advantage of live bookmarks.

:-) thanks

They seem to get more and more hot.

Time will tell if it has made
much impact. I suppose there have been no studies or surveys on this
subject unless I'm just narrow-minded.

I have several subscribers who visit new pages often, which I like.

Also, the feed is fetched often by Google (every day), and the links in it
are followed.

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