October 1, 2008

Publish the RSS feed of your lenses

Today I'm going to write about a great tool provided by SquidUtils: namely an RSS feed of all your lenses sorted by lensrank. You can actually see one in use on the sidebar of this blog ("My top 5 lenses"). Here's how you can get and use yours:

  1. Visit SquidUtils.com and enter your lensmaster nickname.
  2. Click "Lensmaster RSS Feeds" and grab your feed. Personally, I use the topmost one (all lenses and groups sorted by lensrank), but you can chose whichever you want, depending on where and how it will be used.
  3. Publish the feed on your: blog, social networking profile (I show mine on Yuwie), website, or wherever you want.
The point? Free traffic, free backlinks, and your lens list will always be updated and sorted whenever lenses change in rank or when you add new ones.

Now, if you want to republish any kind of RSS feed on your website you might need an RSS parser. I've personally used lastRSS which is extremely simple and quite fast; as an alternative, you might want to try Magpie RSS or SimplePie which will also parse Atom feeds.

Labels: atom, feeds, lastrss, magpie, rss, simplepie, squidutils, yuwie

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