RSS Feeds and Dynamic XML Site Maps

Live Twitter Sample

This content is dynamically generated from our Twitter RSS feed. As soon as we make a new Twitter entry, it will show up here. (It may not show up because of Twitter's server limitations. This is just an example, so we did not apply for additional bandwidth. To see a screen grab click here.)

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We do many things with RSS! We can integrate a live feed onto a site via ASP and PHP using XSL. What does this mean? Well, imagine if you have a Twitter account and you want to display your Twitter message live on your home page via their RSS feed. We can do it.

Take a look at the integrated feed on the left of this screen. We publish our del.icio.us RSS feed here. In fact, we put it through Yahoo! Pipes first in order to scrub any potential errors before it comes to our site. This allows the page to display properly if there are issues with the del.icio.us feed.

We can also create database driven RSS feeds and XML Site Maps for products or podcasts. It is incredibly helpful for search engine optimization. By publishing live feeds and submitting these feeds to Yahoo!, Google and MSN, it allows them to find pages more quickly and also helps categorize them. The feeds can also be added to feed review sites, which also helps SEO and word of mouth campaigns.