Quick Tip For Creating Custom RSS Feed URLs

I’m sure almost everyone knows this already, but if you’re one of those who have yet to encounter this one, let me spare you some pain. Our basic understanding of RSS feeds is that these are bits of posts or news that can easily be syndicated.

More often than not we look at feeds as a very static thing; i.e. if you want to be constantly updated with the latest gadgets, for example, you subscribe to Engadget’s or Gizmodo’s feed. But what if you want to specifically subscribe to the latest update on the Apple iPhone for example? It’s going to be a hit and miss if you continue to do what you’re currently doing.

Good thing we can now create our own RSS feed URL’s based on keywords. Yep any keyword at all.
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For the latest news there are a lot of sources. But for this article, let’s just focus on Yahoo! and Google.

With Google creating your keyword based RSS feed is relatively easy. You just have to choose where you’re going to source it; from their Google Blogsearch or Google News. So the choice is just with blogsearch.google.com and news.google.com. To create your keyword based RSS feed, let’s say ‘Apple iPhone’ for example, you just type those words on the search bar. If you want those two words to be beside each other, place those words inside “quotation marks“. When you click on search blogs or search news buttons, there automatically comes up a sidebar in the left of the screen. Just look for the RSS link and click it. The URL that shows up in the address bar is your RSS feed. Pretty nifty isn’t it?

Unfortunately, this is not the case for Yahoo! But fortunately some really cool dude, Jeremy Zawodny, created a little something so we can still come up with a keyword based RSS feed from Yahoo! News. The link to his little creation is here–> Yahoo! News Search RSS URL Generator.

And how is this going to rock your boat again? Auto blog content man, laser-targeted auto blog content.

That’s it. Hope that was helpful.

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