"Making An RSS Feed" for a website

[mehul]

I have gone through the above mentioned article on searchenginewatch.com

At one place Danny have mentioned "You can have upto 15 items".

I have a question that if I remove the older items in order to maintain the 15 numbers of item, will the subscriber of feed be able to receive the older items?

One a separate note, could you suggest something that would help me understand the style sheet for XML feeds?

"Beu" have mentioned on one of the posts that:

"Your RSS feed should reside on your domain. Create a Feedburner account and provide Feedburner with your site's RSS feed. Feedburner is an aggregator but it doesn't produce an RSS feed in XML for your site alone."

What I understand by this is that the XML file for RSS should reside on the server and the link of RSS should be the one assigned by Feedburner or the one from my domain?

Correct me if I am wrong, I am new to this creating an RSS feed stuff.

[beu]

Of course Danny is correct, 15 items but older items will not show up when removed unless the user has options to cache previous feeds.

While it is possible to style xml why waste the time when you browser does it automatically? Just add the following to the HEAD your html in pages and you'll see the rss icon in the right of your address bar any modern browser appear. Clicking the icon should style the xml into a user friendly feed in the same window automatically.

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://www.yoururl.com/feed.xml" />

In terms of your Feedburner question, feel free to use both but in terms of SEO, only using Feedburner can result in missing inbound links as well as Feedfetcher ("Googlebot" for RSS) traffic to your site. Providing users with only the option to link to Feedburner doesn't result in users linking to your site.

Hope that helps better explain and best of luck to you!

:)

[Mitchelle Johnson]

I think feedburner.com is a paid website....

[beu]

I think feedburner.com is a paid website....
There are paid and free options, FeedBurner is owned by Google.:)