Many people have asked me how do you create a RSS feed and what is it. RSS “Really Simple Syndication or some people call it RDF Site Summary” can be used to share information about a web site, such as news, press release and articles. It can be used to market your web site and can be very successful, if done right.

When an RSS feed is created from a website, the site’s latest articles or news will be available to other websites.

Why do I have to create an RSS Feed?
Well, Maybe you want to write original articles or news for your site and want other webmasters to be able to use
this content on their own websites, or to help promote your website. Or you may want to allow your visitors
to download it to their program, so they can get easier and faster access to it.

Before we start you need to know a few things. I am only going to teach you RSS 2.0 Syntax with this
tutorial. This is only the basics and not everything you need to know to become a true pro at RSS, but it will
at least get you started in creating your own RSS feed.

Also you will need Notepad or WordPad or some
other text editor. If you know any other programming (HTML, PHP, PERL, etc.) language it will help you
understand RSS much better.

Here is what RSS looks like in coding:

The first section of the file contains the header information. This states that the file is XML and which
version it is. Also it has the title of the file just like a HTML file would have in it. You will also see the
description tag, this will tell people the content and what it is all about.

You will need to place the opening item tag at the start of all the article or news. You then place the closing
item tag at the bottom of the content. You can add as many pages of content as you want, just place the
opening item tag at the beginning and the ending item tag at the end of it.

Just like you would do in a HTML file, you must put the ending tag for the entire file. The ending RSS tag
for the entire file is , just add that to the very bottom of the file. And now your done, you have created
a RSS feed, now add it to a few RSS feeding directories, you can do this by searching with the keyword RSS
feed directory.

After your done you will need to save it with a .xml extension. To find out if you did it the correct way, you
will need to validate it. To validate your file - visit RSS Feed Validator.