Add "One-Click Subscription" Functionality To ANY One of Your Sites, Defeat Evil Spam Filters, and Get a Tidal Wave of Visitors Flooding Back to Your Site Every Time You Make An Update!
For your own sake, if you are a site builder, I hope you have heard about RSS -- Really Simple Syndication.
RSS sucks! (Sucks tons of recurring visitors onto your web site, that is.)
It's simply a special file you place on your web site that contains a list of all your site's recent news items: your latest press releases, latest articles, latest blog posts, latest product launches...
A visitor subscribes to that RSS file, then checks it again every day or every hour. If a new news item appears in that RSS feed, an alert box pops up on their desktop and it commands them to check out your site right away.
- With most modern browsers, people subscribe to RSS updates with one click. They don't have to type in a name and an email address like with a traditional opt-in form.
- There is zero chance that your message is unfairly blocked by filters because it doesn't go through e-mail. RSS doesn't need spam filters because the unsubscribe method is foolproof... check a box in their RSS program and it stops checking your RSS file every day!
- Other people can syndicate your RSS feed on their site. This means that when you make an update, THEIR list of your news items changes and visitors from all around the Internet know to visit you again.
Sounds great, right? There couldn't possibly anything at all wrong with Really Simple Syndication? No huge gaping flaw?
Ok, there is: RSS is only easy to use on script-powered sites like WordPress or phpBB. These sites are smart and built RSS in so that when you make a new post, your feed is updated.
What About the Rest of Us Who Don't Use That Software...
Are We Getting Left Out in the Cold?
Yep, if you want to update your RSS news items on a static site...
You're out of luck!
Unless you've got CSV to RSS!
CSV to RSS is a very simple PHP script that takes a "comma separated values" text file and outputs it as an RSS feed.
Instead of messing around with databases and trying to move a WORKING site over to a blog, all you need to do is add some stuff to a text file, like this...
Site Name,http://www.example.com,All About My Site
News Item 1,http://www.example.com/1.html,The first news item
News Item 2,http://www.example.com/second.html,Another news item
The Third Thing,http://www.example.com/third,Something else for you!!
My script does the rest. If you want to announce any changes to your site, you edit a text file and upload. It's that simple.
You Have Complete Control Over What
News Items to Show, and In What Order
You could even put this on a sales letter. Or on an affiliate page and require affilaites to subscribe to the feed... any time you've written a new solo ad or autoresponder sequence for them to promote, edit that text file and your affiliates will get notified within 24 hours.
I'm also pleased to announce that CSV to RSS is 100% compatible with Paul Myers' NewsMon script. NewsMon is a news syndicator launched several years ago before RSS was popular. Many webmasters quickly added it to their sites. If you're one of those people who still hasn't made the switch from NewsMon to RSS feeds, you no longer have to!
Just plug this script in and it will offer the best of both worlds by offering your news in BOTH NewsMon and easy-to-bookmark RSS formats.