Development on the latest PlugIM feature is complete. Now you can attach an RSS feed to your user account and every item that comes through the feed will automatically be submitted as an upcoming story on PlugIM. All you need to do is login to your account (or if you don’t have an account yet, register) and go to your profile settings. There you’ll see a new section of settings for the RSS feed.
First and most importantly is the URL, make sure to include the full address to your feed. Then select the category that best describes your feed. It doesn’t need to be a perfect fit for every post, you can always individually edit posts on PlugIM after they’ve been submitted if need be. Then select how often you want your feed to be checked for new items. There are values to choose from ranging from 15 minutes up to 24 hours. Just keep in mind if you set this to 15 minutes, your feed is going to be accessed 96 times a day, however if that doesn’t bother you, that’s the best way to get your submissions posted to PlugIM as soon as they arrive on your feed. Finally you can also add tags to your feed. The tags will be applied to every PlugIM submission off your feed. Again, they don’t need to be perfect but can better narrow down the scope of your category.
The rules for adding an RSS feed to your PlugIM account are:
- You are the owner of the feed
- Internet marketing feeds only! Sure you can post off topic occasionally, but the overwhelming theme of your feed needs to be related to internet marketing in some way. SEO, SEM, blogging for dollars, Adwords, traffic generation, link baiting etc.
*Please note: feeds need to be activated by an administrator. This is to avoid getting bombarded with off topic spam. Most feeds will be approved or denied within 24 hours so please keep this in mind when activating this feature. Changing your feed URL will reset the approval process. To deactivate automatic feed submission, simply delete the URL.
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It will be interesting to see how you handle Feedburner feeds for the URL so I have added mine.
It would be good if you could collect tags from the posts themselves, although I am not sure how much data you currently allow in your database for tags. I know I have had problems adding tags for manual submissions because the data field is so small. I use lots of tagging.