Comments on: Using Images to Make Your RSS Feeds POP!

By: David Davis

David Davis — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:38:15 +0000

Thanks for helping us out!

By: Theresa Kruger

Theresa Kruger — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:53:06 +0000

Hey Darren, I know this is an older post but I wanted to ask you…When you change your RSS to full page instead of a summary, is there a chance that other sites can scrape your content and cause duplicate content issues in the search engines. Also is there a way to just put maybe the first paragraph with a picture or video at the top of the RSS feed post instead of the whole post?

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:06:27 +0000

Is there such thing that I can link video RSS feeds to my blog?
Right now, I’m kinda doing it manually going on youtube. Is there a way that it can automatically updates the video?

By: Ivan

Ivan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:16:08 +0000

I use images on my blog but I would really like to get videos to show up on my rss feed. Does anyone know how to embed videos on an wordpress rss feed?

By: Deepa

Deepa — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:45:05 +0000

Hi..
I am a bit of beginer here. I have a photblog where each psot post has a picture and a small decription ( english & Tamil)..
So thiis is what i would like to have..,.

The feed to display a thumbnail preview of the picture in the post and say 20-25 words from the description.
Then i would like to display the above feed in my other blogs so that my readers would know when i have a new picture at my photoblog

would this be possile? ? ?

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:13:57 +0000

I never realized that this is why my posts never showed the pictures or the video that I embeded in them till now. It is amazing what one little flag being changed on the blogger settings will do for a blog to enable full feeds.

Thanks

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By: Ashish Mohta

Ashish Mohta — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:45:16 +0000

Images can definetly help. In fact my readers increased because of them.If proper images are used they deliver the correct message in one shot.Images are mightier than pen.

Images which actually relate to post will work well or which can say yeah this post means that.But there is one problem, how one makes an image which relates to post.Only way could be looking for an image on google search but then you fall into trap if its copyrighted.

Any suggestions?

By: Jesus Guerrero

Jesus Guerrero — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:44:40 +0000

I use images in every single post in my blog. It makes my articles look more attractive.

By: snwop

snwop — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:00:13 +0000

One of the problems I found with using video in RSS feeds is that not all RSS readers can handle this. I use Mozilla Thunderbird and it does not show any flash contents, so I must go to the Web page. Let’s hope that the Mozilla guys fix this in the near future.

By: Deirdré Straughan

Deirdré Straughan — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:47:26 +0000

Because my site contains both photos and videos (as well as lots of text) of very photogenic places, it was natural to put both into my (non-full-text) feeds – but it took me until a couple of weeks ago to work out how to do this with photos. The result seems to be a jump in my (small) number of Feedburner subscribers, and traffic to the site continues to increase. Just this weekend I figured out how to kludge in YouTube videos so they show up in Google Reader; still waiting to (try to) measure the results of that.

By: Vincent Chow

Vincent Chow — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:20:22 +0000

May I know how are those images, like the red one in this post is created? Is there any template or generator, or it’s just a neat work done from scratch by using Photoshop? Thanks in advance, I’d appreciate any further clue.

By: Mike Panic

Mike Panic — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:20:21 +0000

For the blog in my name here, I use royalty free stock images whenever I feel it will help a story and is relative. I do use video clips either as an entire post or, in some cases they finish telling the story that was started by me or one of my other authors.

As a photographer, I find it really easy to put graphics together with words, however I often see writers who don’t know much about graphic design or photography choosing the wrong images, making them too large or putting them in the wrong place and it often over powers or over-runs the story, sort of getting in the way. Small, simple, to the point articles that stick to the topic. If you use a white background, try to get isolated images, they will “blend” w/ the site better. If you run a different color background, crack open Photoshop (or gimp or whatever) and change the background color or make it a transparent .gif file.

Likewise, if you can’t find a suitable image, don’t feel the story needs one or can’t get it into the layout well, don’t use it. That simple.

My general rule of thumb for image size is no larger then 150 pixels on the long side, 175 if it is a very narrow image and needs to be that big. On a rare occation, I’ll use an image as wide as 400 pixels (about as wide as I can go with my current Wordpress theme) to show a screenshot or large image that needs to be in the story, and I’ll usually put this at the bottom of the article and / or after the “read more” fold so it doesn’t clutter up the index too much.

I also see a lot of people not utilizing thumbnail sized images that are clickable to larger images – there are several ways to do this with code, simple HTML all the way through nice smooth java scripts. In any event, if you need to show large images (600 pixels on the long side or bigger), show a small thumb that is clickable. It will not only save on your bandwidth bill, it will make for a happier user.

A quick word about images – get them legally! There are plenty of free or very lost cost places you can grab them, don’t steal them from others.

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By: Larry Keiler

Larry Keiler — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:59:01 +0000

I often put images in my posts, but I’m not technically proficient, really. Any tech changes I’ve made are more of the copy from somewhere and paste variety. So I’m not exactly following this here. How do images appear in the RSS feed?

By: Jon Symons

Jon Symons — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:50:42 +0000

Favicons are another way to use images to get your feed noticed, as most readers will pick them up display them…they can make your feed stand out from the pack.

By: Evorgleb

Evorgleb — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:33:58 +0000

i often use video in my posts and have found that many feed reader do not show my videos (which i provide through various embeded players). So what I usually do is give some indication in my post that there is a video to see so people who do not see the video know that it is missing from the feed and that they can click through to the site to see it. Something as simple as “check out the video below” does the trick

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:01:35 +0000

Many RSS readers can’t display, for instance, an embedded YouTube video. They either display a giant blank space or nothing at all. Worse, it’s not immediately obvious to some people that there was content missing that they could have seen had they clicked through. Video in feeds needs a good treatment, but I suspect it’s a bit early to expect it to be widespread or useful for many people.

By: Kane

Kane — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:41:00 +0000

I’d really like to use images in my feed. But I just dont understand how to get it from my WordPress installation. Questions on the forums ends up with zero answers. A quick pointer anyone?