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Using RSS Feeds at Squidoo For Newbies

By: Gary Harvey

How do you add an RSS feed to your Squidoo lens?

And why would you definitely want to do that anyway?

Firstly... WHAT IS RSS? - A simple intro.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and you use it to add content from other websites to your lens, just by copying a single line of code.

If you can copy and paste, you can do this, okay?

From the lensmaster's point of view... The best thing about RSS is that the content from the other site is automatically updated on your lens whenever it changes at the other site. Talk about nifty.

WHY USE RSS FEEDS?

1. Fresh content is fed into your lens frequently, without you doing a thing. Nice eh?

2. Squidoo won't even list your lens until you have at least 4 modules. That is, 4 blocks of information on your page. Writing several articles is a great way to help achieve that. Adding an RSS feed is easier still.

WHERE DO YOU GET RSS FEEDS FROM?

Today almost every blog (and tons of websites too) provides a feed so you can publish their content on your site. You would have seen those orange XML rectangles and the square orange RSS logos. The links under those symbols are RSS feeds.

If you're stuck and all you want is something relevant to your lens, then here is the code for a Yahoo News feed about Seth Godin, the creator of Squidoo:

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ynews-search-rss.php?q=seth+godin&go=go

Just change [seth+godin] to [your+three+keywords] or [keyword]. Without the brackets, of course.

In "Using RSS Feeds at Squidoo – A Simple Explanation, Part 2", we cover the steps to add this RSS feed to your Squidoo lens. Dead easy, and I will show you how.

More articles in this Success with Squidoo series: http://HomeBusinessWinners.com/Squidoo-success

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About the Author:
Article written by Gary Harvey. Gary recommends http://www.ProfessorCheap.com for Cheap eBooks, Cheap Software, Cheap Resale Rights and Cheap Master Resale Rights and http://www.squidoo.com/Unstoppable-Markets

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