Syndicate Your Headlines Using RSS

Written by Shelley Lowery


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Now, you're ready to create your headlines. Each new "item" tag represents a new topic. The rule of thumb is to include between five and fifteen items. You can include a description, but it isn't required.

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You can impress your carefully targeted audience with a colorful display ad that spreads across<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 131904"> page of your favorite magazine, trade bulletin, or newspaper. </description> </item><p><item> <title>Creating A Customized Marquee< itle> <link>http://www.web-source.net/web_tips_feed.htm</link> <description>Learn how to create a customized marquee for your web site</description> </item><p>Your final step will be to close your channel by adding<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 131905"> following tags:<p></channel> </rss><p>Save your new file with a .rss file extension and upload it to your server.<p>If you'd rather not create your own RSS file, RSS Channel Editor is a free Web based tool that makes it easy to create and maintain RSS files. You can find<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 131906"> script here: http://www.webreference.com/perl ools/<p>Now, you're ready to share your content. 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