RSS Feed Software

 A selection of professional RSS software programs to help you benefit from adding RSS feeds to your website.

What Is RSS?

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a way that you can take data from one source, for example a news site, and add the content to your site.

What are the benefits of RSS? 

The are many reasons why you may want to add an RSS feed to your site but for starters, consider the following:

	Your visitors experience is greatly enhanced by fresh, relevant content
	The maintenance burden of updating your site is greatly reduced
	Your site may benefit from a great prominence in the search engines
	It adds to the overall professionalism of your site

RSS Software

Obviously there are many tools out there to help with RSS reading and syndication. The software I've listed below is aimed at affiliates and anyone with an interesting in marketing their website.

RSS2Blog is a server based application that can be configured to automatically post RSS feeds or news items directly to your blog. More than that though, you can add text items, for example, Articles, and it will post them to a schedule that you set. It's fantastic! You install it once on your server but it can be configured to work with any number of your blogs. If blogging is a key part of your marketing strategy, then this be one of the first weapons in your arsenal.

RSS Content Builder is from the same development team as RSS2Blog and, not unsurprisingly, it shares the same clean interface and is very easy to use. To get the maximum benefit, I use a PHP include snippet of code with ensures it is search engine friendly.

Associate Feed Generator is a truly awesome application for Amazon Affiliates. This program is installed on your computer and allows you to generate keyword targeted RSS feeds from the Amazon marketplace. Used in conjunction with RSS Content Builder (above), you can quickly and easily add any product from Amazon to any web page using the keywords you choose.

PowerRSS is a great piece of kit. As well as the usual benefits of using RSS feeds it also has an automated archive system. In simple terms, each day's news page is stored on your site with a site map built/updated without you lifting a finger. The feed is keyword targeted so your site grows naturally with pages full of news items related to your niche. You can even specify keywords that link back to any page on your site so building your own internal link structure... again, naturally and automatically. Very good!

RSS Books

If you want to want to gain greater knowledge of RSS and the benefits it can bring you, I can definitely recommend RSS Made Easy by a fantastic guy called Adrian Ling.