It's Time for an RSS Revival [wired.com] Tired of Twitter? Facebook fatigued? It's time to head back to RSS. ... No matter what your current disposition, though, in this age of algorithmic overreach there's something deeply satisfying about finding stories beyond what your loudest Twitter follows shared, or that Facebook's News Feed optimized into your life. And lots of tools that can get you there.
bill
2:09 am on Apr 12, 2018 (gmt 0)
I still need to figure out how to market my site's RSS?
Back in the day there were a bunch of services that you could ping to tell them that your content was updated. I was looking at the Pingomatic site, which is still up, but lists a lot of services that appear outdated. It would be hard to say if any of those are still operational or relevant anymore.
Possibly the best way to advertise your feed would be to add the appropriate tags in your site header and to place RSS icons prominently in your pages.
TorontoBoy
2:29 am on Apr 12, 2018 (gmt 0)
Wordpress usually has the rss option prominently in their "meta" section.
graeme_p
11:33 am on Apr 18, 2018 (gmt 0)
Possibly the best way to advertise your feed would be to add the appropriate tags in your site header
I think browsers have reduced support for RSS, right? I remember an icon used to come up in Firefox if a site had a feed. No longer I think.
and to place RSS icons prominently in your pages.
and 99% of your audience will have no idea what the icons are.
henry0
4:08 pm on Apr 18, 2018 (gmt 0)
I will try an experiment, create a page about RSS, what does it do, usefulness, how to.. etc... and link to this page from any new content.
Harry
2:29 pm on Jun 21, 2018 (gmt 0)
RSS is essential to a viable open Internet. My site promotes the RSS feed clearly and invites visitors to subscribe to it. Our RSS feed is the most popular page beyond the homepage.
It only serves a summary of pages. There could be abuse but I haven't spotted duplicate contents stolen from us in years. I know many services use it to monitor our stuff. I have even added custom RSS feeds for specific sections of our site over the years.
Security concerns are important to me too but I do want to share and have our info easily accessible to real readers outside of the walled-gardens. RSS is how we achieve that.
tangor
11:18 am on Jun 23, 2018 (gmt 0)
I think browsers have reduced support for RSS, right? I remember an icon used to come up in Firefox if a site had a feed. No longer I think.
It's Time for an RSS Revival
