I thought it might be time to provide an update on the progress of my lens Seven Of The Best Uses For RSS Feeds. The lens was initially created on June 26th 2008, although it took me a few days to build so the first publication was probably over a week later. Once published I added it to a few directories, bookmarking sites and blogged, with the title RSS Feeds Are The Best, on July 15th 2008 here at Squidtop.
The results are not staggering, but they are interesting. So far there have been 43 visits to Seven Of The Best Uses For RSS Feeds, 10 of them from Google (which means it must be indexed), 10 from Squidoo, 7 from Squidtop and 5 from Digg. The Digg results do seem a bit strange though, according to Digg the lens has been “Dugg” 23 times. I presume that means that people are digging without visiting the lens, how does that work?
One other point worth noting is my experience with Propeller. The admin at Propeller appear to have taken a dislike to Squidoo, their submission page would not allow my Squidoo URL to be entered and came up with some kind of “spam” warning message. To get round this problem I submitted my previous Squidtop posting, which seemed a good idea at the time. When I next tried to log in to Propeller a day or two later my account had been deleted! Seems a bit extreme, but it is their site and I guess they are entitled to do as they like.
Has anybody else had experiences of this nature?
Tags: best rss feeds, creating rss feeds, how to use rss, rss feeds
I just tried to set up a feed with feedburner, think I managed it ok, however using the feed source of my Squidoo page http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/poddys I get all updates to my lenses included.
How can I create a feed that say just includes my Song Lyrics lenses, which have “Lyrics” in the title?
I tried to search yeaterday for how to do something like this, but got totally lost.
Thanks
I don’t think this would be possible with Feedburner, you probably need some way of combining multiple feeds into one feed. Yahoo Pipes may be a way to do it. I have never tried it myself, but there are lenses that can you help on Squidoo.
An alternate approach would be to create a new Squidoo account, transfer your Lyrics lenses to the new account, then use the new lensmaster feed for submission to Feedburner. Not very elegant, but a workable solution!
Martyn
Poddys, it can be done pretty easily, stop by the squidoo chat room sometime and I’ll show ya how.
mlinekar,
RSS feeds can be awesome but remember that the way they are rendered on squidoo pages prevents the links from being indexed. It varies from site to site but if an RSS feed is pulled using java (like squidoo) than there isn’t any way for the ole google bot to see what it pulls.
I have RSS feeds for one of my blogs but haven’t done much to date.I’ve bookmarked your lens for reference.
Propeller did stop accepting Squidoo lenses. Now I just submit articles and such (which have links to some Squidoo lenses) Unfortunately, many of my Squidoo related “friends” no longer stop in.
You can get rss feeds for just about anything on squidoo from squidutils.