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An RSS news feed can be used 
communicate with your target audience. It 
an ideal means 
notifying people new content 
your website without 
need 
them keep visiting your site. You can send newsletters your readership without having use email 
risk being accused spamming. You will be comfortable 
knowledge 
people who request your feed are actually interested 
because they have actively subscribed it. This article will explain just how create your own RSS news feed.
There are a couple ways create an RSS file, you can use an editor designed purpose or you can create a file using a simple text editor. The latter will require you learn some XML whilst former will do hard part you. First off I will describe an RSS file, there are several versions I will be showing you version 2.0, latest RSS version.
An RSS file looks just like an HTML file except has different tags files end .rss or .xml rather than .html. The file made up header information item information, item information contains actual news items.
The first section file contains header information. This states file XML which version, encoding used version RSS you are using. This part file mandatory. Next up channel tag, this encloses whole rest file. This followed by a title, description link which explain what feed about what website associated with. The final part header optional image information. If you use this software that used parse or read your file can display a small picture such 
a logo.
Please note that these examples I have used square brackets instead angled brackets.
[?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?]
[rss version="2.0"]
[channel]
[title]The Widget news feed[/title]
[description]The latest news widgets[/description]
[link]http://www.widget.com/[/link]
[image]
[title]Widget News[/title]
[url>http://www.widget.com/widget.gif[/url]
[link>http://www.widget.com/[/link]
[/image]
The body file made up news items. Each news item enclosed item tag comprises a title, a description a published date. The date needs be format shown example below.
[title]Which best Widget to?[/title]
[description]In this article we discuss release several new widgets, but which best widget.[/description]
[pubDate]Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:38:50 GMT[/pubDate]
[link]http://www.widget.com/the-best-widgets.html[/link]
[/item]
You can have many items feed you like but many webmasters just show 10 most recent items keep bandwidth usage down also so not overwhelm end user with too many items.
Finally file ended with closing channel tag a closing RSS tag.
[/channel]
[/rss]
I have covered basic tags create an RSS file, there are other tags that can be used these are explained http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss (RSS 2.0) specification.
Once you have created your file you will need verify ok, do this upload file your server then go this validator validate file. Your file now ready. Now anyone can subscribe your feed just by pointing their RSS reader your RSS file.
That basics covered. I will be covering other areas future articles there far too much information fit into a single article.
Allan webmaster at http://www.newsniche.com an RSS resource webmasters. Learn how use RSS attract retain visitors your site.
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