RSS Feeds
As we mentioned in
Introduction
Dub parking site is a content-driven one
and one of the main ways through which the content is added is
via RSS feeds.
RSS feeds are a standard file format which websites can make available
for other applications to consume and ingest the website's contents.
Though it has been around for some time, it still is one of the easiest
ways to consume contents via different tools of your choice, rather than
having to visit that website.
For this reason, many popular websites and blogs will offer their
contents through RSS feeds and before you import contents via RSS feeds
you will need to know the URL of these feeds.
RSS Manager
For each parking site, you can manage all the RSS feeds via the
RSS Feed Manager as
shown in screenshot 1.
The RSS Feed Manager will give you a quick overview of all the feeds that you have added
and provide information on how many contents were imported in total, number of pageviews
it attracted and the last time it was crawled.
Adding a RSS Feed
Click on the New Feed button
and you will see the popup shown in screenshot 2.
In the Basic tab,
you insert the RSS feed URL and also give it a name.
In the Filters tab
(shown in screenshot 3)
you specify what contents of the given RSS feed can actually be imported.
This is useful in a number of ways. For example, perhaps you want your
parking site to focus on particular keywords, but RSS feed covers far too many
topics. In addition to keyword-based filters, you also have a variety of filters
you can apply to your contents.
Filters are also handy in general when you want to control the quality of
your contents. For some, it is fine to have any contents being imported
to their parking site, as long as your parking site attracts users.
However, for those users who wish to control what type of contents are
available on your domain, though it may take a bit more time, filters
provide you an excellent way of removing and adding only the ones that
you want.
You will also find the other tabs called
Categorization
and
Tags. These are ways
for you to automatically assign the given feed's contents to a category
or tags that you wish.
Updating and removing an RSS Feed
Updating an existing RSS feed works the same way as adding a new one.
So click on an existing RSS feed and you will see a popup as shown in
screenshot 1. Deleting an RSS feed will delete all the contents that
were imported by that RSS feed and all the related data.