How to add a RSS feed

How to add a RSS feed

To create a completely automated campaign, you could add a RSS feed data source. This could be any valid RSS feed containing the direct links to your articles.

Let's have a closer look at Google Alerts RSS feed.

How to set up Google Alerts

You should start by visiting Google Alerts page here: https://www.google.com/alerts And type a search query in the search bar.

Google Alerts Homepage

You can use any Google search query to retrieve the results as you prefer. In addition, you can use Google search operators to focus your search to a specific criteria.

By default Google delivers the feed to your Gmail inbox. In order to receive results in RSS feed, you need to click on Show options and select RSS feed option in Deliver to section.

Google Alerts as a RSS feed

After you save your Alert, you will see the RSS icon next to your saved Google Alert.

RSS icon on Google Alerts

It may take some time for Google to collect new articles within your specified search query. In depends on the search query you use.

As the result, your RSS feed will be like this:

Google Alerts RSS Feed example

How to add a new RSS source on LazySMM

Navigate to your Campaign page and scroll down to Sources section. Then click on Add a RSS source button.

Add RSS feed

Fill in the settings for and click on Add a new source button to submit.

Add RSS feed on LazySMM

Source label

Source label is an internal field just to name your source and recognize it in future.

Is useful when you have a lot of identical sources (e.g. Google Alerts)

Source label

RSS URL

The RSS URL field is a URL address of your RSS XML file.

For example, if you use Google Alerts, the URL will have the following structure: https://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/09104968907358403868/1039497309858915000

RSS URL

RSS reading

When our system reads a RSS feed, we might get a large number of the new articles. The RSS reading option allows you to control the way of reading this data.

This is quite important when the total number of incoming articles exceeds the maximal number of posts per day.

There are the following options:

Ordered: The links in RSS feed will be processed one by one, starting from the first item Random: We will shuffle the links and pick up items randomly until we reach the target number of posts.

RSS reading alrogithm

RSS filter

When our system analyzes articles from RSS feed, we take into consideration a number of factors. This includes the length of the content, author, keyword stuffing, link stuffing, images and compare to the internal stop words (keyword black list).

If you set RSS filter to Automatic, then we will process articles that match:

  • At least 900 words
  • At least 4000 content length

If you set to None, we will pass all the articles from your RSS feed directly to publishing.

RSS filtering alrogithm

Stop words in URL

Especially when you use Google Alerts as a RSS feed, you may get tons of irrelevant links for your publishing campaign.

We recommend you to use Stop words in URL field in order to exclude irrelevant links and do not process certain articles.

For example, if you add "/job" into this field:

Stop words in URL string

After you add a source, you can specify additional settings of your RSS feed

RSS feed additional settings

Content words

When our system analyses an article from a RSS feed, you may specify a specific keywords that must appear in the content. This is minimum occurrences concept.

In other words, an article will be published only if a certain it contains the required list of keywords.

In the example below, an article must contain:

  • "news" at least once
  • "freelancer" at least twice

Content words

Activate your RSS feed

When you add a new source, it is turned off by default. To turn it on, please use this switch.

Our system will use this source only if it is turned on.

Activate your source

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