RSS questions

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

Today’s question:

How do I get RSS feeds to my blog please?

Now this can be answered a few different ways as it is not clear what you are asking.

WordPress automatically creates a feed for your blog. It is found by appending /feed to the URL for your blog. So if you are looking for your own feed that is the easy way with WordPress.

Now you might want to add your feed to feedburner especially if you want to use the feed blitz email service. Go to feedburner and get an account and add your feed there then promote your feedburner feed.

This can be important if you want to sell text links or advertising because most sites base fees off of PR, visitor traffic and RSS subscribers listed at feedburner.

Now the other question that could be being asked is how to import RSS feeds for content. Now if all you are looking for is a news feed or similar content to enhance your sidebar there are plugins that will allow that.

If you are looking to scrape content and use someone’s content to populate your blog my answer is don’t.