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Yahoo and RSS Gnomedex 4. Scott Gatz. Y! News first to publish RSS. First feeds - Aug 03 Began with broad sectional feeds (Top Stories, World, etc.) Evolved to aggregated “topical” feeds (Elections, Middle East, Personal Tech, etc.) 75+ feeds today Promotion: First from a “feeds” page
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Yahoo and RSS Gnomedex 4 Scott Gatz
Y! News first to publish RSS • First feeds - Aug 03 • Began with broad sectional feeds (Top Stories, World, etc.) • Evolved to aggregated “topical” feeds (Elections, Middle East, Personal Tech, etc.) • 75+ feeds today • Promotion: • First from a “feeds” page • Now: most pages by loose relevance
Now Yahoo! publishes tons of feeds Over ½ million RSS feeds published
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Demo More info at: http://my.yahoo.com/s/about/new_migrate.html The All-New My Yahoo!
Our users (and Y!) will thank you if you… • Title your feeds well • Make your channel description…descriptive • Make item titles descriptive • And include a description/summary • Provide pubDate for each item • Use technology to make things easier on us • Language field should not be “Windows” or “%bloglanguage%” • We check “last mod date” help us not fetch unnecessarily • Ping us when you update • Use Add to My Yahoo! buttons
URLs to check out • FAQ for Publishers of RSS • http://my.yahoo.com/s/faq/rss/publishers.html • Add Attendee’s Blogs to My Yahoo! • http://my.yahoo.com/s/gnomedex.html • Info on the new My Yahoo! • http://my.yahoo.com/s/about/
Inbound – Political Blog Roundup • Launched 8/26; needed as part of broad based Election coverage • Plan is increase level of promotion as Election season crescendos.