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    The "title" tag tells viewers the name of your channel. The "link" tag provides a link to your web site. The "description" tag describes what your channel offers and the "language" tag indicates that you're writing in English.

    Now for those of you who want to provide an image like your logo within your feed you can add the following tags:

    <image> <title>Title For Your Image</title> <url>http://www.yoursite.com/image.gif</url> <link>Place a link here such as http://www.yoursite.com/</link> <width>88</width> <height>31<<div style="float:right;position:relative;width:200px;padding:10px;"><a href="/article/13288/advice--Tips-on-Finding-Employment-as-a-Corporate-Flight-Attendant.html"> Tips on Finding Employment as a Corporate Flight Attendant</a><br>I will not pretend that this is the easiest topic to write about. In fact, my knowledge of how one finds work as a private flight attendant is based chiefly on what others have shared with me. You can find some useful tips within the many threads written on the Corporate Flight Attendant Community message boards at http://www.cabinmanagers.com, but to save you from culling through hundreds of threads I will highlight various standout points and include others that have been shared with me over the past several years by industry insiders:* Cold calling. Time honored and time tested this is an important method for finding work and it is also one of</div>The future of RSS Feeds and internet marketing is looking bright and promising. It would be a wise decision to get yourself up to speed on this developing content sharing technology by putting together your own news feed for your site.</p><p>In the previous article on RSS Feeds you learned some of the basic information on what an RSS feed is and what it can do for your website. Today we're going to learn to create a basic feed that you can put into use within a few minutes.</p><p>To see what RSS Feeds will look like on your site you can take a look at mine at:</p><p>http://www.cashway.com</p><p><b>Is it difficult to create the feed?</b></p><p>No not really. You do need to know how to set up and edit html code using a few symbols that I'll show you below.</p><p>Without getting into all of the technical details of whcih version or RSS specification you should use, let's just get down to the nuts n' bolts of it.</p><p>You can build an RSS file from scratch pretty easily, as long as you keep the features aligned with the material you're trying to present. You'll need to start up your favorite html editor to create the one your file (page that will contain the code and content links) for your RSS Feed.</p><p>NOTE: Once you have created this file you will need to upload it to your server to allow other web sites to display your feed on their site(s). The best part about this is that once the file is created you can easily update your channel and content by updating your file.</p><p><b>OK let's begin....</b></p><p>You must be in html format to enter the code on the page. At the top you must include the following: <XMP> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE rss> <rss version="0.91"> This lets RSS readers know that the page is set up for an RSS Feed.

    Next you will be adding the code that identifies your channel information. This tells readers about your feed.

    <channel> <title>Add Your sites's feed title here</title> <link>http://www.yoursite.com</link> <description>Describe What Your Feed Offers</description> <language>en-us</language> What's the above mean? Here's the breakdown.

    Tag definitions...

    The "title" tag tells viewers the name of your channel. The "link" tag provides a link to your web site. The "description" tag describes what your channel offers and the "language" tag indicates that you're writing in English.

    Now for those of you who want to provide an image like your logo within your feed you can add the following tags:

    <image> <title>Title For Your Image</title> <url>http://www.yoursite.com/image.gif</url> <link>Place a link here such as http://www.yoursite.com/</link> <width>88</width> <height>31</<div style="float:left;position:relative;width:200px;padding:10px;"><a href="/article/41980/advice--A-Successful-Business-Financial-Projection-Can-Be-the-Key-to-Securing-Financing.html"> A Successful Business Financial Projection Can Be the Key to Securing Financing</a><br>A business seeking capital can’t afford to underestimate the importance of business financial projections. A business financial projection is simply forecasting your sales and revenue to the lender. This information is important because it is a key indicator to your ability to repay a loan.If you are unsure about financial forecasting and how it relates to your business it is best to hire someone who does know. Most lenders will want to see a three or five year projection. There are 14 different items to include and fully support in your financial projections. With these different items it is best to give a month-by-month breakdown for the first </div>ne at:</p><p>http://www.cashway.com</p><p><b>Is it difficult to create the feed?</b></p><p>No not really. You do need to know how to set up and edit html code using a few symbols that I'll show you below.</p><p>Without getting into all of the technical details of whcih version or RSS specification you should use, let's just get down to the nuts n' bolts of it.</p><p>You can build an RSS file from scratch pretty easily, as long as you keep the features aligned with the material you're trying to present. You'll need to start up your favorite html editor to create the one your file (page that will contain the code and content links) for your RSS Feed.</p><p>NOTE: Once you have created this file you will need to upload it to your server to allow other web sites to display your feed on their site(s). The best part about this is that once the file is created you can easily update your channel and content by updating your file.</p><p><b>OK let's begin....</b></p><p>You must be in html format to enter the code on the page. At the top you must include the following: <XMP> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE rss> <rss version="0.91"> This lets RSS readers know that the page is set up for an RSS Feed.

    Next you will be adding the code that identifies your channel information. This tells readers about your feed.

    <channel> <title>Add Your sites's feed title here</title> <link>http://www.yoursite.com</link> <description>Describe What Your Feed Offers</description> <language>en-us</language> What's the above mean? Here's the breakdown.

    Tag definitions...

    The "title" tag tells viewers the name of your channel. The "link" tag provides a link to your web site. The "description" tag describes what your channel offers and the "language" tag indicates that you're writing in English.

    Now for those of you who want to provide an image like your logo within your feed you can add the following tags:

    <image> <title>Title For Your Image</title> <url>http://www.yoursite.com/image.gif</url> <link>Place a link here such as http://www.yoursite.com/</link> <width>88</width> <height>31<<div style="float:right;position:relative;width:200px;padding:10px;"><a href="/article/27755/advice--4-Ways-to-Overcome-Marketing-Challenges-Forever.html"> 4 Ways to Overcome Marketing Challenges Forever</a><br>For most small business owners, marketing is an overwhelming concept. They need marketing solutions that ensure a smooth-running, profitable business yet most don't know where to begin or how to focus their efforts.90% of small businesses don't even have a marketing plan. It's difficult to reach your destination if you don't know where you're going!If you're a small business owner looking for ease, focus and marketing success, we recommend that you focus on just 4 tactics:1. Establish a memorable and unmistakeable brand identity:The secret to business success is determined by your ability to powerfully communicate your busine</div>te the one your file (page that will contain the code and content links) for your RSS Feed.</p><p>NOTE: Once you have created this file you will need to upload it to your server to allow other web sites to display your feed on their site(s). The best part about this is that once the file is created you can easily update your channel and content by updating your file.</p><p><b>OK let's begin....</b></p><p>You must be in html format to enter the code on the page. At the top you must include the following: <XMP> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE rss> <rss version="0.91"> This lets RSS readers know that the page is set up for an RSS Feed.

    Next you will be adding the code that identifies your channel information. This tells readers about your feed.

    <channel> <title>Add Your sites's feed title here</title> <link>http://www.yoursite.com</link> <description>Describe What Your Feed Offers</description> <language>en-us</language> What's the above mean? Here's the breakdown.

    Tag definitions...

    The "title" tag tells viewers the name of your channel. The "link" tag provides a link to your web site. The "description" tag describes what your channel offers and the "language" tag indicates that you're writing in English.

    Now for those of you who want to provide an image like your logo within your feed you can add the following tags:

    <image> <title>Title For Your Image</title> <url>http://www.yoursite.com/image.gif</url> <link>Place a link here such as http://www.yoursite.com/</link> <width>88</width> <height>31<<div style="float:left;position:relative;width:200px;padding:10px;"><a href="/article/28962/advice--Marketing-a-Private-Practice--Mistake--1--Trying-to-Be-All-Things-To-All-People.html"> Marketing a Private Practice: Mistake #1: Trying to Be All Things To All People</a><br>When healing professionals market their practice, they often attempt to cover all bases by trying to appeal to all types of people with all sorts of problems. Often this stems from a fear that if you don’t attract everyone you won’t fill your private practice.While there are successful generalists out there, in the current competitive market it is wise to target your marketing efforts to a specific population(s) you want to work with.Why is this the case? In the first place, people like to hire those who they view as being experts because there is an expectation that they will then get the best service possible. Think of what you do when h</div> <XMP> <!DOCTYPE rss> <rss version="0.91"> This lets RSS readers know that the page is set up for an RSS Feed.

    Next you will be adding the code that identifies your channel information. This tells readers about your feed.

    <channel> <title>Add Your sites's feed title here</title> <link>http://www.yoursite.com</link> <description>Describe What Your Feed Offers</description> <language>en-us</language> What's the above mean? Here's the breakdown.

    Tag definitions...

    The "title" tag tells viewers the name of your channel. The "link" tag provides a link to your web site. The "description" tag describes what your channel offers and the "language" tag indicates that you're writing in English.

    Now for those of you who want to provide an image like your logo within your feed you can add the following tags:

    <image> <title>Title For Your Image</title> <url>http://www.yoursite.com/image.gif</url> <link>Place a link here such as http://www.yoursite.com/</link> <width>88</width> <height>31<<div style="float:left;position:relative;width:200px;padding:10px;"><a href="/article/17506/advice--Buy-Business-Mailing-Lists.html"> Making Money - Is $100,000 Enough? - 5 Tips On Money Making - $250,000+</a><br>There used to be a day that making money over $100,000 was a great income. Yea sure, only 5% of people in North America make that kind of money individually, but I know a few &quot;broke&quot; people making over $100,000 per year (in most cases they do not realize how broke they are) as they are two months from the street without their income. Sound familiar? It is NOT enough if you want to sustain a lifestyle that gets better over time!Feel you can do better in the money making game?To live a lifestyle worth bragging about, you need to be earning at least $250,000 per year and in many cases much more than that.If you are reading th</div>efinitions...</b></p><p>The "title" tag tells viewers the name of your channel. The "link" tag provides a link to your web site. The "description" tag describes what your channel offers and the "language" tag indicates that you're writing in English.</p><p>Now for those of you who want to provide an image like your logo within your feed you can add the following tags: <XMP> <image> <title>Title For Your Image</title> <url>http://www.yoursite.com/image.gif</url> <link>Place a link here such as http://www.yoursite.com/</link> <width>88</width> <height>31</height> <description>Describe What Your Site Offers</description> </image> OK - now that we have all of the business side of the feed out of the way we can get on to the code that will allow you to display your content. For each item you want to allow others to see you need to add the following code. <item> <title>My First Article, etc</title> <link>http://www.yoursite.com/myfirstarticle.htm</link> <description>Provide the headline or short description here</description> </item> For every new item you add you will need to follow this same format. Pretty simple, huh!

    Now lets close up your feed. To do this add the following code after the last item you want to display.

    </channel> </rss> There, you're done. Now save your page with a .rss extension and upload it to your website. It doesn't matter where you save it to, it can be in your root directory or in a separate folder.

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    Now that you've created your feed you'll want to share it with others on your website and maybe even syndicate it on other sites.In order to view your new feed on any of your webpages or let others display it on their's you need to do one or two more things.

    You can....

    1 - Convert your RSS Feed URL to a java script code that you can add to any webpage on your's or others sites. To do that you'll need an RSS to javascript converter. Not to worry because they're Free online services that you can use to do this very quickly.

    My favorite one is...

    http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/lite/

    Here's another...

    http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/

    You can also look for news aggregators and reader directories that you can submit your feed to for more exposure.

    Now, with an RSS feed you have an efficient way of sending your content directly to the vie

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