All Posts Tagged With: "syndication"

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Huge Collection Of RSS Icons

Malevi4 of Malevi4.wordpress.com has compiled a pretty big list of free to use RSS icons. I can’t read any of the text on the website but I can tell you this, this compilation contains a number of RSS icons I have never seen before. Behold my new favorite!

I just think that image looks awesome. At [...]

May 14th, 2008 | Jeffro | 1 comment | Continued
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Un Authorized Syndication

A post over at ProBlogger.net is asking the following question: “Is syndicating content kosher or not…ie running someone elses content through rss into ones own blog?” And the answer to that varies depending on the circumstances. For starters, I feel that no website should be able to syndicate my full RSS feed while at the [...]

May 11th, 2008 | Jeffro | 4 comments | Continued
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Turning Categories Into Feeds

Out of the box, WordPress generates a number of RSS feeds for you automatically. These include feeds for comments, posts, and believe it or not, categories. I had previously thought that a plugin was required in order to turn categories into RSS feeds but that is not the case. Check this out.
WordPress supports a number [...]

January 10th, 2008 | Jeffro | 5 comments | Continued
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The Best FeedReader Money Can Buy

Often times, I’m asked the question, “Which RSS FeedReader Do You Use“? I reply with “FeedDemon” which is then followed up with a response of “Feed What?”. I suppose no one knows of any other feed reader outside of Google Reader. I have Dave Gray, host of TheGlobalGeekPodcast to thank for pointing me towards FeedDemon. [...]

December 9th, 2007 | Jeffro | 16 comments | Continued
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Copyright Your RSS Feed With FeedEntryHeader

FeedEntryHeader is a Wordpress plugin written by Stephen Cronin. Like so many other bloggers, Stephen has been battling the scraping issue. FeedEntryHeader provides WordPress bloggers with a way of adding a copyright statement and a link to the original article which will show up at the top of your feed entries.
Why the top and not [...]

December 8th, 2007 | Jeffro | 5 comments | Continued
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Analyze Your Feed With Visuals

BlogPerfume has developed a cool program called Feed Analysis which providers bloggers an at a glance view of just how well their FeedBurner feed is performing without having to do any sort of calculations on your own.
By the use of Feed Analysis, the number of subscribers for each month is neatly shown on the [...]

December 5th, 2007 | Jeffro | 2 comments | Continued
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51 Creative RSS Buttons

Bloggers Journey has an interesting post today which is nothing more than 51 different RSS buttons that you can use on your blog. They range from the typical RSS orange square to the huge RSS orb. Do you find it weird that I don’t have any big orange RSS icons on this blog? I guess [...]

November 15th, 2007 | Jeffro | 4 comments | Continued
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A Few Updates Worth Mentioning

First off, I’d like to thank those of you who participated in the Live Chat last night. I had a blast talking to you in real-time and I think I’m going to make it a weekly occurrence. Every Friday between the hours of 9PM EST and 10PM EST, I’ll be hanging around the blog to [...]

November 10th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
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How To Create A Link Blog

For those that haven’t noticed, I have added my own personal LinkRoll or LinkBlog to the left hand sidebar of this site. This link blog can be subscribed to independently of the blog and will contain links that I find interesting that I come across within my feed reader. I have created this tutorial which [...]

November 6th, 2007 | Jeffro | 5 comments | Continued
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FeedBurner In Glitching Mode Today

Look like I wasn’t the only one to notice a sharp decline in my RSS subscriber count. Earlier this morning, my subscriber count fell from 115 to 69. According to Darren Rowse, the problem seems to center around the Google Feedfetcher stats not displaying today. These types of errors with Feedburner happen on occasion and [...]

November 4th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued