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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
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Where do I start?
It's simple, just create your first RSS feed using the
RSS CREATOR form.
Why is my RSS good only for 15 minutes?
Your newly created RSS feed is valid forever. It just disappears from
our servers 15 minutes after creation. We need to keep the space clean
and available for others.
How many items do I have to have in my RSS feed?
It's really up to you. From one to anything, however, most RSS
feeds have anywhere between 10 to 15 items. Our tools do limit the
number of items per RSS feed to 15. It is really controlled by the
RSS EDITOR form.
How do I create those cool looking RSS items with thumbnail images
like Yahoo does?
First, create a small RSS feed using RSS
CREATOR, for example with
only one item in it. This way it won't take too long to do it.
Then use our RSS EDITOR to add a new
RSS item with a thumbnail image in it. You need to have a suitable
image on your webserver somewhere on the Internet. Please, be sure
the images are sized right, e.g. that they are really thumbnail images
of small pixel and byte sizes.
How do I know RSS XML file is valid?
Use our RSS VALIDATOR form to find out.
The other way is, of course, our RSS VIEWER.
It will display a correctly formatted RSS feed of your choice as
a web page. It even remembers some of the RSS feeds you viewed
previously, so you
don't have to look for them.
What can I do with RSS?
You can share it with others so that they know about your
web pages even before going to your website. Almost every larger
and many smaller web sites offer RSS. It's used for marketing of
your content website and many other things. There are many search
engines that allow people to find RSS feeds from other websites.
RSS is read through RSS readers that exists on the web like our
RSS VIEWER or
MyYahoo! or as
a program that can be installed on your PC.
My Blog provider only offers Atom feeds
Atom is another feed format, similar to RSS, but not quite
the same. RSS is much broadly used on Internet by large
media companies, so it does make sense to provide your feed in
RSS rather than Atom format. It is easy to convert Atom to RSS
with our Atom-to-RSS converter.
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