SiteFeeder Introduction

Geek Werkz Delivers: The SiteFeeder

An RSS Feed Builder for XSitePro Sites

and Compatible Source Files

Introduction

This was, originally, a personal script that I built to fill a gap in my XSitePro sites. I was looking at this site I built and I couldn’t find the RSS feed. I’m an RSS junkie, so a site without a feed seems deficient unless it’s one of those micro sales page sites. RSS is not only a nice feature for your more technically sophisticated visitors (and probably nearly everyone, pretty soon), it also has some nice SEM features, can get you in front of a group you may not normally access, usually increases your traffic, and generally gets the spiders around faster and more often. If you don’t know RSS marketing, you can get a nice package that will bring you up to speed at http://www.MarketingWithRSS.com/ (from me). This is quite probably one of the very best books/packages to get you up to speed – it is not one of those dumbed down things – though some of the bonus items are simplistic (if you’ve bought the SiteFeeder package from me and decide to buy the Marketing Success With RSS book/package use the special link in the readme file included with SiteFeeder – it goes to a page with a very nice customers-only price break).

Anyway, I built the first version of this program - a single script with the setup/configuration embedded in the script itself. Then I thought this could be a valuable resource for anyone using XSitePro. So I added some complexity, generalized the code, added a configuration interface, etc. Then I started thinking about other places people generate articles for their sites and realized that the scripts can handle any source file with the right formatting and that it’s easy to build source files from the snippets features of programs like Article Miner, Article Automator, etc. Plus, with a minor amount of manual work, you can create merged source files. And you can include items that point to other domains or subdomains.

You’ll have to read the manual to get the full picture, but it has turned into a more versatile and talented program than I had in mind.

LICENSING: It’s all copyrighted. It is not OpenSource, GPL, Creative Commons, or whatever. So while you can use it on as many of YOUR OWN sites as you want, you can’t give it away, donate it, sell it, include it as a freebie or smoke it. Also, you can’t put it on client sites or include it in a site being sold (unless you are transferring ALL your rights to the buyer and do not have it installed on any site of your own). If you do sell sites and would like to include SiteFeeder, please contact me to set up a mutually acceptable deal. You are getting unencrypted, unobfuscated code so that you can hack it as much as you want for your own purposes. BUT, unless you change it beyond recognition and extensively modify the functionality, the processing and add a bunch of features, please don't sell it or give it away. Boring stuff, but apparently necessary.

SUPPORT: This is not supported software. Not at this kind of price. There are no promises of any upgrades or fixes much less any absurd lifetime upgrade policy. Now, this doesn't mean I won't fix it if it's broken or send you upgrades or offer support. What it means is that I won't promise to do any of that, nor offer guarantees nor warranties of any kind.