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1. Vito Botta
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   Hi all,
   I just created an account while looking for something similar to Feedburner's headline animator.
   It looks nice, but when would you use this widget?
   Do you use it only with your own sites' feeds, so to promote your own sites by placing the same widget on all of them?
   Or do you also enable feeds for third party websites? If so, doesn't this mean that the widget may take users away from your own site?

   I do like the widget but am not sure on when it's a good idea to use it.

   Thanks in advance
   Vito

   Posted 13 years ago #

2. martin fish
   Member

   Hi Vito,

   Seems to be a way to syndicate feeds on your own blog. Think fresh content.

   Posted 13 years ago #

3. Peter Jamieson
   Member

   Similar multi feed posting can be done via Ping.FM

   Posted 13 years ago #

4. James Chase
   Member

   Vitto, the idea of the widget is exposing your users to other material they may be interested in. It's truly a great way to put potentially relevant, timely information in front of them. It's a great way to lower bounce rates, and when used on external websites, a great form of advertisement.

   Goldenroot is also correct, Ping.FM is very useful as well, especially for updating business Twitter of Facebook accounts. Such tasks, by hand, could take several minutes per post. If you have a fanbase on Twitter or Facebook, Ping.FM is definitely the way to go.

   Posted 13 years ago #

5. jamie2
   Member

   Where can I find out where instructions are to make a widget?

   Posted 13 years ago #

6. Aliice99
   Member

   Did you look over here: http://feed.informer.com/docs/

   Posted 13 years ago #

7. George Weston
   Member

   I agree, Ping fm is very useful

   Posted 13 years ago #

8. Raging Diva
   Member

   It would be great. It will be very useful to your site.

   Posted 13 years ago #

9. Janet12
   Member

   Just as hypman said, Pinging is beneficial. :-) I use it all the time.

   Posted 13 years ago #

10. ellis contura
    Member

    Thanks for all the comments. It is a big help for me.

    Posted 13 years ago #

11. Kate Hill
    Member

    When is it wise to have have RSS external feeds on a blog? reason I ask wouldn't RSS take visitors away from your blog or site?

    Posted 13 years ago #

12. jessa
    Member

    Goldenroot says it is like pinging. Does one benefit from having both, or is it overkill?

    Posted 13 years ago #

13. monica Belle
    Member

    i dont think it is

    Posted 13 years ago #

14. allomada1
    Member

    I think you can find it in the docs/FAQ. Hope that helps

    Posted 13 years ago #

15. Crispin DelMorte
    Member

    @KateHill:

    You can customize your RSS feed to only show part of your content.
    That way, they can subscribe to your feed and know when you update (instead of checking your page every day), but they will have to click through and visit the actual site to see all of the new content.

    Posted 13 years ago #

16. mark hall
    Member

    @KateHill:

    Its an easy way to get some auto content on your blog and you can also use a script to change any word in the rss feed to a different word automatically ,or have a word automatically with a link ,to say a sales page of offer of some sort - so use the rss feed to your advantage

    Posted 13 years ago #

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