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As a matter of fact, the method I showed last week for putting other site’s
content on your site wasn’t really RSS feeds. The method I described has been
around for a long time already, and is perhaps easiest.

In my most recent research, I find there are a few places popping up that will
create a code for you to insert a RSS feed to your site, or for others to put
yours on their site. http://www.originotions.com/whyrss.php nd
http://www.originotions.com/install.php

You can even buy software that will do this for you. I saw one called nooked,
but don’t know whether to recommend it. Master Syndicator V5 and Master
Syndication Gateway V2 look better; they are by Willmaster.com

Since I haven’t prepared such content files myself yet, (aside from my blogs)
for others to use on their sites, I’m sharing links with you that will explain
this in more detail.

This link opens up an PDF book that explains how to do it create that code by
hand - which you provide to others who want to syndicate your web pages.
http://willmaster.com/master/gateway1/support/CreatingSyndicationContent_letter.
pdf

Just now there is a syndicated article with the above info condensed, on this
page; http://homebiztools.com/syndication.htm It is by Will Bontrager, the
author of the above PDF book.

So basically, you create a master content file that you’re going to update
regularly, and you give it a name with a .js ending (if using JavaScript) and a
.php ending if you are going the .php route.

Then you create the code snippet that others will need to place on their site
to show off your “content page” somewhere on one of their web pages.

There is another way. The XML page.

This is the one I’ve been using a few months. When I don’t forget, to fill in
the key data items on my xml template page, it works very simply.

1. Once I have some pages , or my blogs updated, I pull up my xml page, which
is RoseBouquet.xml
I delete the dates and titles between the < item > tags and put in a short
paragraph excerpt from that article or page to give people a clue as to what
they’d find if they click on the link.

2. Then I upload that page to my site. At the beginning I listed it on some
RSS feed agregator sites, so whenever my .xml page changes, they know about it
immediately.

3. Anyone who has that url: (http://ruthes-secretroses.com/RoseBouquet.xml)
pasted as a bookmark into their RSS feed readers, will see as soon as they
check their reader and click on my RoseBouquet title, whether I have new links
and descriptions showing there. If they are intrigued enough - they click and
go have a quick read!

This, you’ll notice, doesn’t put my content on their web site, but right on
their computer, which they can check as easily as scanning email subjects in
their email program. Rather than having to roam all over my site to FIND new
stuff, they can zero in on what appeals to them at the moment. When it is fresh.