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Dr.5z5 RSS Feed Submissions Guidelines

1. All content of web feeds must be created by you. No exceptions. If your content has been published elsewhere, make sure you still own the copyright to it.

2. Your submissions may not include or link to:

1. Pornography, adult or mature content
2. Violent content
3. Content related to racial intolerance or advocacy against any individual, group or organisation
4. Excessive profanity
5. Hacking/cracking content
6. Gambling or casino-related content
7. Illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia content
8. Sales of beer or hard alcohol
9. Sales of tobacco or tobacco-related products
10. Sales of prescription drugs
11. Sales of weapons or ammunition (e.g. firearms, firearm components, fighting knives, stun guns)
12. Sales of products that are replicas or imitations of designer goods
13. Sales or distribution of coursework or student essays
14. Any other content that is illegal, promotes illegal activity or infringes on the legal rights of others

3. The feed title, description and feed’s contents must exhibit correct grammar, sentence structure, spelling and punctuation.

Please follow these guidelines when submitting web feed ( RSS and ATOM ) to Dr. 5z5 Open Feed Directory. Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines will be declined for publication.

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Common questions about RSS, feeds, syndication, namespaces, extensions, and podcasting.

• What is a Web Feed?

I have heard the phrase web feed but I’m not really clear on what it is. Can you explain what a web feed is?

When people use the term web feed it is typically used synonymously with an RSS feed, but not always. The phrase web feeds can also refer to data feeds or XML feeds. Both data feeds and XML feeds might use a different format (tag structure) than RSS. If a website is asking you to submit your web feed it is safe to assume they will accept RSS. If a website is providing you a web feed to display content on your website it may or may not be in the RSS format.

• Is RSS Only Available Through a Computer?

No, many mobile devices all support RSS feeds.

• How Do you Monitor and Track a Feeds Popularity?

There are a number of ways to track an RSS feeds popularity. Unfortunately because of the nature of syndication the tracking is not always reliable or accurate. Use the followng to track the consumption of RSS feeds.

1. Tracking URLs
2. Transparent Gif
3. Web logs
4. The 3rd Party Services (like FeedBurner, Pheedo, FeedCraft, MeasureMap, SiteMeter, Dr.5z5)
5. Use Unique URLs

The best tracking will result when a combination of tracking methods are employed. More information on tracking RSS feeds.

• Is There any Free Way to Create RSS Feeds?

While it might be difficult to locate rss software free of charge, you can always hand create an RSS feed. There is a step by step tutorial at Make RSS Feeds that will walk you through the process of hand creating RSS feeds.

If you find the process cumbersome you may need to buy software that will handle all the encoding for you. Often the time saved by using the software, the software will quickly pay for itself.

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It depends! Some blog search engines want the URL of the html web page, while others will ask for the RSS feed. If you are manually submitting the blog/blog feed, you will just need to pay particular attention to what they are asking for. If you are given the option of providing html or rss, you will want to provide the RSS feed so that it dynamically updates as your RSS feed updates.

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Only 3 Step to Submit Your RSS or ATOM Feed to the Dr.5z5 Open Feed Directory:

1. Use the text box to Submit a New ATOM or RSS feed, You need to specify a valid and accessible URL to the ATOM or RSS feed URL.
2. Write down the Feed Title, Feed Description and select a proper category for that.
3. Click the Confirm and Submit button. Yes, It’s finished.

Get linkback from us:

• Your Feed will listed in our Directory and categorized with your selected.
• Your can get some Feed Widgets with your feed to tracking your Feed Subscribers.
• Dr.5z5 Fetcher Server will make a Daily Snapshot for your feed and cached it in our Storage Server.
• If you put the widgets code in your Web Site or Blogs, It’s should be trigger the users Subscribe, Your feed which you have submitted will list in The Feed Directory with high priority.

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RSS feeds should be segmented into categories and information sources. For example you might have an RSS feed for a forum, a blog, a newsletter, if you sell various products you might have different feeds for each product or product line. Additionally you might have support feeds or a FAQ feed for each product or product family.

Webmasters might also group feed discounts or coupon deals, offers, press releases, or job postings. Bottom line be createive use RSS feeds for all aspects of communication, but match the theme of each feed so that all the content in a feed is related.

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Web Feed is beneficial to both publishers and website visitors. To keep things simple I have listed just a few of the benefits for both publishers and website visitors.

Web Feed benefits for publishers:

1. Reaching new audiences through syndication
2. Improved search engine optimization
3. Easier and less expensive vehicle for communication than email.
4. Additional way to communicate with customers or potential customers.

Web Feed benefits for website visitors:

1. Website visitors do not have to release personal information in order to subscribe to an Web Feed.
2. 100% opt-in, users control the content they wish to receive.
3. Faster method for scanning content (saves time)

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Website users can read RSS feeds using a desktop RSS reader or newsaggregator. There are even mobile applications that will allow you to view the contents of your RSS feed on a cell phone. Additional details on exactly how to view an RSS feed can be found in the article Selecting an RSS Reader.

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There are a number of ways to track an RSS feeds popularity. Unfortunately because of the nature of syndication the tracking is not always reliable or accurate. Use the followng to track the consumption of RSS feeds.

1. Tracking URLs
2. Transparent Gif
3. Web logs
4. The 3rd Party Services (like FeedBurner, Pheedo, FeedCraft, MeasureMap, SiteMeter, Dr.5z5)
5. Use Unique URLs

The best tracking will result when a combination of tracking methods are employed. More information on tracking RSS feeds.

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When people use the term web feed it is typically used synonymously with an RSS feed, but not always. The phrase web feeds can also refer to data feeds or XML feeds. Both data feeds and XML feeds might use a different format (tag structure) than RSS. If a website is asking you to submit your web feed it is safe to assume they will accept RSS. If a website is providing you a web feed to display content on your website it may or may not be in the RSS format.

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OPML

OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is an XML format for outlines. Originally developed by Radio UserLand as a native file format for an outliner application, it has since been adopted for other uses, the most common being to exchange lists of web feeds between web feed aggregators.

The OPML specification defines an outline as a hierarchical, ordered list of arbitrary elements. The specification is fairly open which makes it suitable for many types of list data.

XML format

The XML elements in an OPML document are:

This is the root element. It must contain the version attribute and one head and one body element.

Contains metadata. May include any of these optional elements: title, dateCreated, dateModified, ownerName, ownerEmail, expansionState, vertScrollState, windowTop, windowLeft, windowBottom, windowRight. Each element is a simple text element. dateCreated and dateModified contents conform to the date-time format specified in RFC 822. expansionState contains a comma-separated list of line numbers that should be expanded on display. The windowXXX elements define the position and size of the display window. An OPML processor may ignore all the head sub-elements. If the outline is opened inside another outline then the processor must ignore the window elements. Contains the content of the outline. Must have at least one outline element.

Represents a line in the outline. May contain any number of arbitrary attributes. Common attributes include text and type. The outline element may contain any number of outline sub-elements.

Shortcomings of OPML

1. The RFC 822 date format is considered obsolete, and amongst other things permits the representation of years as two digits. (RFC 822 has been superseded by RFC 2822.) In general, date and time formats should be represented according to RFC 3339.
2. Because “expansionState” is recorded independently of the outline elements:
   • The expansion state of the children of collapsed nodes cannot be stored
   • When an outline element is expanded, collapsed, added, deleted or moved, the expansion state of all elements below it must be recalculated
3. Due to the arbitrary nature of the “type” attribute, and the acceptance of arbitrary attributes on “outline” elements, interoperability of OPML documents relies almost entirely on the undocumented conventions of content producers.
4. MIME types aren’t clear; text/xml usually merely identifies the document as having XML content, while text/x-opml does not specify that the document is XML since it lacks the +xml suffix (see XML and MIME).

Validating OPML

Dave Winer has made a request for comments on a proposal for validating OPML and released a beta OPML validator.

Katy Ginger from DLESE has published an XML Schema Document for validating OPML 2.0. There is also a DTD available for OPML 1.0.

Alternative specifications

Alternative specifications have been proposed, notably these include OML, XOXO and XBEL.

OPML documents for

• * Play list
• * Specification
• * Presentation
• * Directory
• * XML feed list (e.g. blogroll)

Example of an OPML

Dr. 5z5 Open Feed Directory OPML

Technorati : Feed, OPML, RSS, Web Feed

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