Setting up RSS feeds from your site

In our last class, the question came up about how to set up others to subscribe to an RSS feed from your site. I have prepared a short presentation that outlines a few steps for enabling someone to establish your feed on three different portal pages, MyYahoo, Google and Start. Click on the title link above to go to the presentation (a PDF file, which may load slowly!)

This presentation does not address how to create the feed, which is covered elsewhere in our class materials, but assumes that you are starting with some kind of blogging software that sets up the feed for you automatically.

Here is a link to the Yahoo instructions for setting up the feed on someon's MyYahoo page, which they will have to have created prior to using this process. In similar fashion, Google instructions will enable someone to pull your feed into their Google Portal page.

Other portals will have similar arrangements that you should be able to find by going to those sites and searching them for something like "add to ...", where they will show you the setup like this.

These instructions all presume that the persons pulling in the feeds will have established the pages that they want to pull the feed to in advance of utilizing these buttons. That will require (in the case of Yahoo or Google) setting up accounts with them first, but those are free accounts.

For a presentation on how to set up the RSS feed from your site (not from your blog, which will have its own process built-in to the blogging software, we have a class presentation (another PDF file) on "Setting up an RSS Feed".