Christopher:

This is great, I have many lenses already, though they need updating! This is a great way to bring fresh content to my lens so it does not get stagnant.

Thanks again, keep up the great work!

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The goodness never stops !
Thanks for this additional source of exposure.

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The article RSS feed is a great facility. Squidoo Lensmasters should make sure they hit the PUBLISH button in the lens Workshop whenever there is a change to the feed, e.g a new article or post (otherwise the lens will not show as updated). The same principle applies to changing tags – the new tag will appear on the lens when saved but the lens will not be shown as updated unless the PUBLISH button is used. I have RSS feeds going to multiple lenses and it is only when I started to use the PUBLISH button for new articles/posts that the lenses gained improved lensrank from the RSS feed. Despite this, the RSS feed is a great source of traffic back to your articles/blog posts because it will appear automatically on your lens.

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I added this to my ‘75′ Squidoo lenses and it really is an asset to each lens.

75, eek! What was I thinking I know.. lol.

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Thank you for this. I am always looking for other ways to improve my lens and provide as much content to other users.

I will be adding this to my squidoo lens today!

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Excellent idea, well presented and explained. Will try it.

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Good looking video Chris.

Thanks for the easy to follow instruction you give. Always great to keep content fresh and even better when you make it this easy.

Thanks for one more EzineArticles GIVE

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You cheeky so and so’s – you add rel=”nofollow” to links withing articles and then expect a heap of squid do follw links back

your days are numbered ezinearticles

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I love it. I just went to test this and I am on a MAC not pc. Can anyone please remind me of how to RIGHT CLICK with a Mac Desktop? My mouse is not the same as the Pc’s and I know there is a way to right click, i just can’t remember for the life of me! ha!

thank you!
Cynthia

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Great video! Thanks for sharing =)

This is a wonderful way to give your EzineArticles more exposure.

Just a note tho: using the RSS module on a Squidoo lens does nothing for your lens ranking or EzineArticles ranking in Google. Google cannot read the content from an RSS feed inside one of these modules because it does not render fast enough.

In short, this RSS feed technique will not give back links to your articles, nor will it give “fresh content” to your lenses for Google.

BUT, it is WONDERFUL for the experience of your lens readers and great extra exposure for your articles.

All the best!

Jennifer
~PotPieGirl

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Great idea!

How ironic though that you are in effect promoting Squidoo which allows lens masters to promote any product or service yet you are so touchy when it comes to doing the same with our Ezine articles.

Maybe you are becoming as relaxed about promotions as is Squidoo?

If that might be the case I shall start publishing Ezine articles again.

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Jennifer,

Good thing… because this recommendation has *nothing to do* with enhancing your SEO, our SEO or Squidoo’s SEO.

Robert,

We’re not becoming relaxed about promotions provided they stay in the Resource Box and not the article body.

Cynthia,

Ironically, a “Mac guy” on our team did this video. I’ll let him comment on how to fix.

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“Jennifer,

Good thing… because this recommendation has *nothing to do* with enhancing your SEO, our SEO or Squidoo’s SEO. ”

Good! I just didn’t want anyone to think this was another one of those supposed magic bullet Squidoo tricks.

This is a solid way to exposure your articles to PEOPLE…and it is PEOPLE that read articles, right? haha!

Have a great day!

Jennifer
~PotPieGirl

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Cynthia,

I’ll happily take Chris’ hand-off and give you some Mac advice… since I understand Chris’ PC locked up shortly after typing his last reply. ;-)

On a Mac, just hold down the [Control] key when you click to perform the equivalent of a ‘right click’. The other option is to buy a 2-button mouse. They’ve been supported on Macs for quite some time.

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Hi Chris:

I wanted to add a squidoo to get more traffic to my articles. I can’t find the squidoo lens after finding my expert author page. I don’t even know what squidoo or rss feed is. I looked at the video. I’m a novice at this;-) Please help

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Suzanne,

Squidoo is a online service that allows users to create 1-page websites called “Lenses”. Go to http://www.squidoo.com/squidoo to learn more.

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Tried it, and it worked fine. Great idea, thanks.

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Hi … I just had to say a big thank you ezinearticle team your last email that led me to this video … the timing was perfect as I was about to start off on a new article campaign though with this info you have shared here …. will makes the difference now I know this way of getting more bang for the? … effort!
Cheers

All my best to you and yours
Phillip Skinner

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This was a great video will truly change the system and the way things NEED to be done to get the right traffic

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Is there a way to get the rss for a specific ezine article so you can get feeds if someone comments on it – not that it happens often?

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Rob,

Yes, of course there is. :]

Just go to the “COMMENT VIEW” of the article you want the RSS feed for and click the red RSS icon.

Example:

For this article’s Comment View:
http://ezinearticles.com/comment.php?Essential-HTML-Skills-For-Article-Authors—7-Tips&id=7185

Here is the RSS feed for future comments on that article specifically:
http://ezinearticles.com/rss/comments/7185.xml

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Thanks Chris,

Of course – being stupid.

If I wanted to back my Ezine up however say through Feedage how would I change:

http://ezinearticles.com/?Hydroxycut-Side-Effects-For-Women—Muscle-Techs-Latest-Weight-Loss-Supplement-&id=1964365

into an rss. When I right copy rss it gives me:

http://ezinearticles.com/rss/Health-and-Fitness-Supplements.xml

As opposed to a direct link to the specific article.

And I know this is off topic – but I take it you can’t backlink ezine articles with other ezine articles? i.e anchor text link keywords on ezines to another ezine in resource.

Thanks.

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“Back my Ezine up” ?

Sorry, I’m not clear on what you’re talking about.

There is no RSS feed for a specific article.

There never will be.

We will never publish what’s known as an RSS/XML “Full Feed”.

We don’t want you back linking EzineArticles with other EzineArticles.

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Hi Chris,

Excellent post. I haven’t had time but I think this is great. I only did one Lens just to give it a try but reading this post, I can’t wait to put together a few lenses with some articles I just wrote.

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The steps are very straightforward, thanks a lot! I have never thought of this!

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