Step 1 Download The Software
First we need to download some software that will allow you to create the necessary files. I will assume you have a webpage editor since you are trying to get your website listed on the search engines. The second piece of software you will need is called RSS Feed For All.
The download URL is
http://www.feedforall.com/download.htm
This is a free trial version. There are others out there that are 100% free, but this one is very easy to use and gives good results. Save it to your hard drive and install it. Once you install it you are ready to continue.
Now you have all the software needed, a webpage editor and RSS Feed For All, time to get working now.
Step 2 Create the Content
Now you can spend hours and hours writing articles for your new RSS feed. But I am going to show you how to get the content on your RSS feed for free. You can find hundreds of free articles to place in your RSS feed for free by going to
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
They have a category for almost everything. Once you find a few good articles load up your RSS Feed For All software.
When it first loads it will ask if you want to use the wizard. Select yes to this option, it makes life much easier.
Then click next. The next window will ask you for the title of your feed. You want this to be descriptive. For example if you are selling dish network satellites, your title could be Free Dish Network Satellite. Or anything related to your product.
Then click next.
The next window will ask for your page description. Make sure you write at least 3 sentences about your product/service. This will result in better results.
Then click next.
The next window will ask for a link. This is the link to your website or affiliate link. Enter your URL and click next.
Item introduction is where you list the articled you found from ezinearticles.com
First you give the article a good title, this should be something different than your main title. Then click next.
The description for your item will be an article from ezinearticles.com. You will want to add your URL in the article to get better results.
Then click next.
You will be able to add more items. I would recommend adding about 5 articles to start with.
Then you want to save your feed somewhere on your hard drive. You are now ready to continue to the next step!
Step 3 Upload Your Data Feed
This is the easiest step. All you need to do is upload your saved file to your web server or host. Then remember the URL that you uploaded it to, example would be your.com/data/myfeed.rss or something along those lines depending on how you upload it.
Step 4 Get Attention!
Ok so now we have all the steps in place. You have a custom RSS feed, you uploaded it to your server, now all you need to do is show people where to find you!
The most important search engine you need to tell is Yahoo. Yahoo will get you traffic from many sources. To add your new RSS feed to Yahoo do this:
Enter your website feed at the end of this link below.
[http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://]
For example if your feed was at http://www.Google.com/rssfeed.xml your link to yahoo would look like
[http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://www.Google.com/rssfeed.xml]
This will tell Yahoo to go to your site and update their records. They will go to your feed every 12 hours or so using this method!
You will also need to do something similar to get listed with MSN.
Here is the URL for MSN
[http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://]
Of course do the same thing and replace the http:// with your actual feed URL.
First we need to download some software that will allow you to create the necessary files. I will assume you have a webpage editor since you are trying to get your website listed on the search engines. The second piece of software you will need is called RSS Feed For All.
The download URL is
http://www.feedforall.com/download.htm
This is a free trial version. There are others out there that are 100% free, but this one is very easy to use and gives good results. Save it to your hard drive and install it. Once you install it you are ready to continue.
Now you have all the software needed, a webpage editor and RSS Feed For All, time to get working now.
Step 2 Create the Content
Now you can spend hours and hours writing articles for your new RSS feed. But I am going to show you how to get the content on your RSS feed for free. You can find hundreds of free articles to place in your RSS feed for free by going to
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
They have a category for almost everything. Once you find a few good articles load up your RSS Feed For All software.
When it first loads it will ask if you want to use the wizard. Select yes to this option, it makes life much easier.
Then click next. The next window will ask you for the title of your feed. You want this to be descriptive. For example if you are selling dish network satellites, your title could be Free Dish Network Satellite. Or anything related to your product.
Then click next.
The next window will ask for your page description. Make sure you write at least 3 sentences about your product/service. This will result in better results.
Then click next.
The next window will ask for a link. This is the link to your website or affiliate link. Enter your URL and click next.
Item introduction is where you list the articled you found from ezinearticles.com
First you give the article a good title, this should be something different than your main title. Then click next.
The description for your item will be an article from ezinearticles.com. You will want to add your URL in the article to get better results.
Then click next.
You will be able to add more items. I would recommend adding about 5 articles to start with.
Then you want to save your feed somewhere on your hard drive. You are now ready to continue to the next step!
Step 3 Upload Your Data Feed
This is the easiest step. All you need to do is upload your saved file to your web server or host. Then remember the URL that you uploaded it to, example would be your.com/data/myfeed.rss or something along those lines depending on how you upload it.
Step 4 Get Attention!
Ok so now we have all the steps in place. You have a custom RSS feed, you uploaded it to your server, now all you need to do is show people where to find you!
The most important search engine you need to tell is Yahoo. Yahoo will get you traffic from many sources. To add your new RSS feed to Yahoo do this:
Enter your website feed at the end of this link below.
[http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://]
For example if your feed was at http://www.Google.com/rssfeed.xml your link to yahoo would look like
[http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://www.Google.com/rssfeed.xml]
This will tell Yahoo to go to your site and update their records. They will go to your feed every 12 hours or so using this method!
You will also need to do something similar to get listed with MSN.
Here is the URL for MSN
[http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://]
Of course do the same thing and replace the http:// with your actual feed URL.
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