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Tips for adding RSS feeds on websites
I have looked at a bunch of nonprofit websites which currently use RSS feeds. Many of these sites do not have much explanation about the RSS feed.
For example, the link says subscribe to RSS feed. What is the content of the RSS feed?
It helps to let the readers and users of your website know what the RSS feed is about.
I have also noticed alot of websites include information about RSS. There is information about what it is and how to subscribe. This is a great thing to add since many readers and users are not familiar with RSS.
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Some sample explanations I've used
What is RSS?" on my own site.
The African American Environmentalist Association's right side bar has a pop up window on the right side bar explaining what an RSS feed reader is.
I have set up a demonstration account with the online feed reader Newsgator that anyone can use to see what a reader seeded with feeds looks like. The username is "marshalldemo" password "welcome"
See also Alexandra Samuel's RSSstocracy, a site dedicated to explaining RSS.
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I just realized my post was not clear.
The purpose of the first part was not about not knowing how to subscribe to feeds, it was about knowing how to subscribe but not sure what the content of the feed is. I will add examples of nonprofit websites at a later time that explains this better.
The second part of my post was about how nonprofits have information about how to subscribe to rss feeds. I was just showing that some nonprofits may use rss but it is not as effective as it could be, but other nonprofits are using rss effectively.
Maybe I should not have combined my two thoughts in one post.