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How to Make an RSS Feed of all Your RSS Feeds - The Feed of Feeds

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By Paul Edmondson


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Making the Feed of Feeds

If you publish on multiple places like HubPages, YouTube, Twitter, and other blogs and wish you had one RSS feed that aggregated all your RSS feeds into one single feed, here is a simple way to do it.

Step 1. Go to each site you publish on and copy the URL to your RSS feed. To find the URL to the feed, you can click on the little RSS icon in most browsers in the URL bar and then copy the URL. Here is an example of three places I place content.

http://hubpages.com/author/Paul+Edmondson/latest/?rss

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/TrainThoughts

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/paultedmondson/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile

Step 2. Go to Friendfeed.com and open an account. Once you have an account you can add/edit services. Add the RSS service for each one of your feeds.

Step 3. After all feeds have been added, click the "Me" link on the right hand side of the page. Then go to the URL bar and click the RSS Icon. Copy that RSS Feed and you will have your feed of feeds.

Why would you want a feed of feeds? Well, for one you can create a widget on widgetbox with your feed and then post your widget on your blog or other places. Second, if your feed is all personal stuff, you can give it to family members, and then they can easily see all your blog posts, pictures and videos and don't have to remember all the places you post stuff.

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Sybille Yates profile image

Sybille Yates  says:
8 months ago

If there is a hub of the year, this should be nominated, excellent little advice, simple but elegant, thanks! SY

Jennifer Bhala profile image

Jennifer Bhala  says:
8 months ago

This is exactly what I need. I have been putting off learning about the RSS thingy not really knowing what to do to set it up or how to use it after I set up. So thanks, I'll be referring to this hub again.

ocbill profile image

ocbill  says:
8 months ago

it just gets better and better each year doesn't it//..free tech stuff.. rssmix and yahoo pipes have something similar.

Paul Edmondson profile image

Paul Edmondson  says:
8 months ago

Yes, you can do it with Yahoo Pipes as well, although I think friendfeed is easier.

SEM Pro profile image

SEM Pro  says:
8 months ago

Thank you Paul! I too have been procrastinating the rss feed learning curve. It is time - - - thanks to you :)

Nancy's Niche profile image

Nancy's Niche  says:
8 months ago

Thanks Paul for simplifying the RSS uncertainty. I have been lost within the entire techie lingo and afraid to try it...Now, I will venture out…

JamaGenee profile image

JamaGenee  says:
8 months ago

Y'all are bound and determined to drag me into the 21st centrury, aren't you?  ;} 

Seriously, this sounds easy enough for me to use.  Thanks, Paul!

yokalyan  says:
8 months ago

This is definetely new to me. Thank you for it.

Frieda Babbley profile image

Frieda Babbley  says:
8 months ago

This really does sound easy. I'm going to have to check this out. Thanks.

bdizzle99 profile image

bdizzle99  says:
8 months ago

I love friendfeed, I was glad to see you giving them a little shoutout here. If you read techcrunch, you'll see that they just called it "the best unused tool on the web", or something to that affect. Twitter is great, but Friendfeed is like twitter on steriods.

RKHenry profile image

RKHenry  says:
8 months ago

Thanks for the tip. I'd never heard of friendfeed. Ever most excellent. You've just saved me hours of online hunting and searching.

B. Panciera profile image

B. Panciera  says:
8 months ago

Wow you rock with data!

Which4u profile image

Which4u  says:
8 months ago

Nice advice, I will be checking out Friendfeed.com now :)

Cheri Schultz profile image

Cheri Schultz  says:
3 months ago

Thank you I just did exactly what his hub said and it worked just fine!!

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