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11/30/2006 Free RSS Auto Discovery Code Generator
Increase the number of RSS subscribers by adding autodiscovery code to your website. NotePage has made a free online tool that automates the creation of the auto-discovery code for RSS feeds.

The free auto-discovery tool automatically creates the code necessary for the auto-discovery of RSS feeds on a website. Simply enter the title, and the URL of the RSS feed and A code will then be generated based on the information entered. The code can then be entered in the "header" section of an HTML web page, to assist RSS readers in automatically detecting the precense of an RSS feed for that website.

Many RSS Readers can automatically discover that an RSS feed is available for a specific website and notify the website visitor if the auto-discovery code is in place. Browsers and aggregators including FireFox, Safari and IE 7 are just a few applications that will take advanteage of the precense of RSS auto-discovery code.

The RSS auto discovery tool can be accessed by clicking the following url http://www.feedforall.com/autodiscovery.htm

11/28/2006 FeedForAll RSS Newsletter
Read the latest newsletter from FeedForAll. The latest newsletter includes information about new releases, tips for optimizing RSS feeds and information on new RSS feed directories and search engines.

11/22/2006 An RSS Quiz Test Your RSS Smarts
You think that you have mastered the art of RSS, but how much do you really know? Take the RSS quiz to test your knowledge of RSS.

RSS Quiz: Test Your RSS Smarts

11/22/2006 New Niche RSS Directories
There are 3 more niche RSS directories available at:

Government Feeds - All RSS feeds from state or government agencies. Categorized and searchable.

Political Feeds - All political feeds, navigate the directory or use keyword searches to locate feeds.

Sports Feeds - Large collection of sports feeds, grouped by sports.

11/20/2006 New RSS2SQL Script Launched
NotePage, Inc. is pleased to announce RSS2SQL, a new php script that allows users to converts RSS feeds to databases.

This new RSS2SQL script allows users to easily store information that is contained in an RSS feed into a MySQL database. When using the RSS2SQL script, the publisher can control which fields of data from the RSS feed are stored in the database, which allows the flexibility to determine what data is inserted into the database from each feed.

The script should not be confused with SQL2RSS which is a related script that converts MySQL databases to RSS feeds.

Read the complete press release on RSS2SQL.

11/13/2006 156 New RSS2HTML Templates Added
More than 150 web templates that can be used with the RSS2HTML script have been added to the RSS2HTML web template directory. The directory contains logo templates, text templates, podcast templates and templates for video casts.

The new templates were added to the text template section and they are segregated by color. The new templates are:

red rss2html templates
blue rss2html templates
green rss2html templates
purple rss2html templates
orange and brown rss2html templates
black rss2html templates

  All of the templates can be viewed in "action" simply by clicking the thumbnail image of the template like this one:

11/09/2006 Webmaster Tips
According to Matt Cutts, there are over 100 factors that affect search engine ranking. For those of you who don't know, Matt is a Google guy guru, he is employed by Google but writes an independent blog and shares information related to Google and search engine optimization. Unfortunately, of those 100 items that account for search engine ranking, there are only a few that webmasters can actually control.

Unless you are a interested in an exercise of futility, it is important to only focus on those ranking factors that you, as a webmaster, can control and influence.

Webmaster Tips

11/08/2006 New Versions Available
A new version of RSS2HTML Pro is now available.

An updated version of FeedForAll Mac is available.

A minor update to the free RSS2HTML script is also available.

For specifics please refer to the release notes in the support section.

11/02/2006 RSS Tips
By adopting good feed practices, you can reap the benefits of having an RSS feed. Following these simple RSS do's and don'ts will get you started on the path to RSS success.

RSS Tips