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Managing and Updating Your Catholic RSS FeedA method for organizing and regularly updating your Catholic rss feedThe Structure of a RSS FeedA RSS Feed uses xml coding for it to be seen in the browsers. There are many versions of this RSS Feed xml coding. This web site uses version 2.0 of the RSS Feed xml coding. To see how the web site uses the xml coding for its Catholic RSS Feed, you can check the orange RSS Feed button on the right uppermost part of this web page. Clicking on the button will give you the code of version 2.0 of the RSS Feed and what xml code tags are needed to create an item in the Feed. In the RSS Feed, you can place as many items as you like. For this web site's Catholic rss feed, the goal is to update our subscribers with a maximum of ten items. The purpose of placing ten items in the rss feed is to ensure that at least one or two of the items are current and up to date. Thus, one system of updating is simply to replace one or two previously published items two current ones. The ideal would be to have five new items to be replace the five old items. How we want our Catholic rss feed to be depends on the system that we choose. What would be wise is to get ideas from how we systematize our Catholic rss feed and integrate it with whatever ideas you may deem as fit for your particular Catholic service or product. Managing and Updating the Catholic RSS Feed When managing and updating the RSS Feed, it is important that we be very careful of the xml tags and other particulars of everyone of our items - especially the pubdate details. One thing that can go wrong is when there is an important detail of the pubdate tag that is missing, especially the year. For instance, if instead of placing 2005 in the pubdate tag, 2004 was mistakenly placed, this will cause your Catholic RSS Feed to have its items outdated for a few days. Those who have subscribed will not be able to access the newly published items. Careful monitoring and more concentrated efforts with the details can prevent slipups such as these. This mistake of missing a year in the pubdate tag item can help us to see that with as many as ten items in the Catholic RSS Feed, and continually updating one to three items everytime, not all the items in the feed are affected. This way of managing and updating will ensure that the Catholic RSS Feed is always filled with updates and new information on the content of the web site. The items that one can place in one's RSS Feed are the following: newly published Catholic articles, new posts to one's blogs, advertising of Catholic-related items, any new page in the web site that can inform and give a resource to the subscriber of the web site's rss feed. How To Get More Subscribers For Your Catholic RSS Feed The more one writes articles and the more one places a subscription button for the rss feed in the pages of those articles, the more one can obtain subsribers for the feed. As each of the articles that one writes for the web site finds its way to be indexed by the search engines, the more the Catholic rss feed will have visibility among those who surf the Net and visit one's web pages. This will give an opportunity for the Catholic rss feed to be subscribed to. Generally, the use of RSS Feeds in web sites is a marketing strategy to obtain more traffic to one's web site. If you are a web site owner with a business or a non-profit venture, you may want to follow the suggestions given in this article and the manner of placing the Catholic rss feed for best exposure. This strategy will obtain, in the long run, more subscribers of your Catholic RSS Feed. With more subscriptions to one's feed, one is assured of more visits, hits and page views for one's web site. Dennis-Emmanuel Cabrera
January 7, 2005 [revised: August 10, 2006]
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