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Finding Your Blog's Feed - RSS

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Real Estate Agent with SeattleHome.com -Coldwell Banker Danforth

Many products I've blogged about require you to have your blog's RSS feed URL.  This is just the web address that is the distribution point of your blog's data--the "outbox" for your blog posts.

With twitterfeed, feedburner, and many other syndication/RSS feed sites, you'll need to find this URL to duplicate your posts all over the web.

Here are a few quick links to help you find your feed:

For Activerain, your URL is fairly simple:

http://activerain.com/blogs/YOUR-USER-NAME-HERE/rss
Don't forget to replace YOUR-USER-NAME-HERE with your actual user name.

Others can take a bit of searching, here's a start:

For a Wordpress Blog

For a Google Blogger account

For your Twitter account

It all seems confusing at first, but when you start by syndicating one feed, you'll see how much time you can save.

Sam DeBord and Brian Wiegand
SeattleHome.com - Washington State Realty - (206) 658-3225
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Comments(21)

Elizabeth Bolton
RE/MAX Destiny Real Estate Cambridge, MA - Cambridge, MA
Cambridge MA Realtor

Hi Sam ~ This is a very helpful post. I can't tell you how many times I start to sign up for a directory or something and end up getting stymied yet again when they ask for my feed and I've forgotten it again. Think I've got it now!

Liz

Jan 13, 2010 12:28 PM
Douglas Belcher
Chateau Realty - Nanaimo, BC
RE/MAX, Nanaimo ABR ePRO SRES

When I started RSS for my blog very few sites had rss but I managed to learn how to code it from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss .

Dreamweaver is a good program to set up your template.

To test your rss feed you can go to http://validator.w3.org/feed/  .

The code is very simple once you understand the basics,

 http://www.dougbelcher.com/nanaimo-real-estate-rss-listings.xml

http://www.dougbelcher.com/newsletter-blog.xml

 

 

 

Jan 19, 2010 02:08 AM
Cliff Johnson
HomeSmart Realty - Stone Mountain, GA
Personalized Real Estate whether buying or selling

Interesting I might try this

Feb 11, 2010 10:41 AM
Cliff Johnson
HomeSmart Realty - Stone Mountain, GA
Personalized Real Estate whether buying or selling

Interesting I might try this

Feb 11, 2010 10:41 AM
Bill Jones
Discovery Real Estate Ltd. - "Homes By Jones" - Airdrie, AB
Realtor (403-701-1739) Airdrie & Calgary Area Homes and Condos

Thanks for posting this info, rss feeds can get a bit to deep sometimes, this helps to clear things up

Feb 13, 2010 02:42 PM
Israel Hunter
RE/MAX Ideal Brokers Inc. - Medford, OR

This is great information, I have not used the RSS very often but i do have an rss feed from my blog. It would be nice to start using it more so i dont need to repost my same content everywhere

Feb 14, 2010 11:49 AM
Kerry Lucasse
eXp Realty - Urban Nest Real Estate Group - Atlanta, GA
Your Urban Nest Atlanta Real Estate Consultant

Thank you thank you!  I was just signing up on a few new directories and couldn't recall what was needed for the RSS feed --- I think it was so simple, I forgot!

 

Jul 19, 2010 12:17 PM
Cheryl Ritchie
RE/MAX Leading Edge www.GoldenResults.com - Huntingtown, MD
Southern Maryland 301-980-7566

Thanks, I needed this information tonight and your blog came up. Wish I could reblog it!

Feb 28, 2011 04:16 PM
Nogui Aramburo
Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS® - Raleigh, NC
Real Estate Professional in the Raleigh Area

THANKS FOR THIS INFO!

May 14, 2011 08:10 AM
Dana Wilkinson
Connect Realty, The Woodlands, TX - The Woodlands, TX
Broker-Your TX agent for The Woodlands-Spring-Conr

I just did a search to find this info for my HAR blog, and you came up first...easy to understand and very handy to have the info so readily available.  thanks!

Jul 31, 2011 05:11 AM
Regina P. Brown
MBA Broker Consultants - Carlsbad, CA
M.B.A., Broker, Instructor

Sam:  you ROCK!  Thank you for the right info at the right time!!!

~ Regina Brown

Feb 20, 2013 10:36 AM
Michelle Wunker
Western Skies Real Estate - Billings, MT
Your Real Estate Coach

Thanks so much for the info.  

Nov 21, 2013 03:00 AM
Dana Hollish Hill
Hollish Hill Group, JPAR Stellar Living - Bethesda, MD
REALTOR * Broker * Coach

Very helpful info. Thank you so much for sharing these details. I had no idea where to begin with a syndicating tip I heard and you really helped me a lot. Thanks!

Feb 24, 2014 09:07 AM
Bahman Davani, CM at Texas Five Star Realty, Plano, TX (214) 457-7055
Texas Five Star Realty, Plano Texas - Frisco, TX
Homes for Sale in Plano, Frisco, Prosper, Allen TX

I tried twitter RSS, but I got error as follow:

 

Feb 26, 2014 06:48 AM
Cheryl Ritchie
RE/MAX Leading Edge www.GoldenResults.com - Huntingtown, MD
Southern Maryland 301-980-7566

I was just discussing this concept the other day. Thanks for the explanation.

Mar 01, 2014 08:29 AM
Stefan Winter
Real Estate in IL & NV | Owner of Real Estate Web Tech | Daily Vlogger - Las Vegas, NV
Owner - Winter Group & Real Estate Web Tech

Thanks for the info, just getting into this blogging thing and every tip helps.

Mar 02, 2014 12:05 AM
Amy Boehm
Keller Williams Realty - Boerne Hill Country - Boerne, TX
Your Realtors For Life, The Boehm Team

Is this information still good since we now have Trulia as a part of ActiveRain?

Jun 24, 2014 11:45 PM
Kaye Swain
Keller Williams Real Estate Roseville CA - Roseville, CA
Your Roseville Real Estate Agent

Thank you so much - happy to find that, as 2015 moves to 2016, this is still correct and works well. Have a great New Year! 

Dec 28, 2015 03:28 AM
Denise Copeland
Home Sales Palm Beach - Jupiter, FL
Jupiter Abacoa Sales & Beach Front Luxury Homes

Thanks for the quick and easy instructions! Set up the RSS feed to my website in less than 60 seconds!

Aug 29, 2017 04:40 PM
Carmine Rauso & Debbie Rauso
Keller Williams Main Line - Newtown Square, PA
Professional REALTORS® and Real Estate Investors

Thank you! I should have searched blog posts before contacting customer support. Got the answer I needed much more quickly this way!

Jan 30, 2023 12:56 PM