Create Your Own Real Estate Listings RSS Feed
RSS (really simple syndication) is a feed that allows your subscribers to receive your "feed" automatically through a feed reader or email. RSS feeds can also be displayed as dynamic content in web pages. A feed will generally consist of a short summary which when clicked will bring you to the full article or detail page.
You can use an RSS feed for any area of your web site that you would update frequently: new real estate listings, price changes, open house schedule, mortgage rates, community news, real estate market statistics and so forth. The feed will allow people to subscribe to your latest updates and can also keep your latest updates posted on your web site and perhaps even posted on other web sites and blogs.
To easily create and publish your RSS feed use a desktop application that provides a wizard to help guide you through the process. I recommend FeedForAll:
Now that you have your RSS feed published (uploaded to your web server) you will want to include links so visitors can subscribe to your feed. You may also want to display your feed content as HTML on a web page or blog and of course you will want to submit your feed to RSS directories and search engines.
A very simple way to get started with displaying, publishing and promoting your feed is to sign-up for a free FeedBurner account.
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That’s pretty neat – I thought you’d have this long detailed instructions when I saw the title of the post…but it’s nice having someone else do the work too