Use ‘Recent Blog Column’ in forums and win a permanent link!

I noticed many bloggers use the  “recent blog area” option in some forums and others don’t. Maybe they dont have a RSS-supported blog or they don’t want to show their recent post.

In this post I will show you how to use this feature or how to use it without RSS or if you need to transform it to a permanent link.

A- – Create a file and  name it :  norss.xml

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B– Write this code in the file :

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<rss version=”2.0″
xmlns:content=”http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/”
xmlns:wfw=”http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/”
xmlns:dc=”http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/”
xmlns:atom=”http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom”
>

<channel>
<title>Site Name</title>
<atom:link href=”http://www.yoursite.com/norss.xml” rel=”self” type=”application/rss+xml” />
<link>http://www.yoursite.com</link>
<description>Site Name</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:40:38 +0000</pubDate>

<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1</generator>
<language>en</language>
<item>
<title>Your Link Name</title>
<link>http://www.yoursite.com/</link>

<pubDate>Fri, 10 July 2009 11:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>

<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

<guid isPermaLink=”false”>http://www.yoursite.com</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Site Description]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Site Description]]></content:encoded>
<wfw:commentRss>http://www.yoursite.com/norss.xml</wfw:commentRss>

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

C– Change this in the code :

a) yoursite.com >>  Your website link.

b) Site Name >> Your website name.

c) Your Link Name >>  The anchor text that you want to show in the forum.

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d) Site Description >> Write some lines about your website.

D– Upload the file norss.xml to your site.

E– Go to :

http://Forum-Link.com/profile.php?do=editoptions

and scorll down to : Blog XML Feed URL and enter the link to the file norss.xml .

F– Click SAVE CHANGES and you are done 😉