RSS - Fresh content on my site

I spent a few hours yesterday researching how to put content via RSS feeds onto my website.

It is a great way to have up to date information that is about your subject always updating on your site.

I looked at a few applications, such as CARP (which I had tried before), Power RSS, RSS Wrapper, RSS FeedMaster, and a few hosted applications such as FeedDigest and RSS FeedConverter.

The hosted applications were easy to use, but do not provide much flexibility. I think there would be more options, but you need to sign up with a monthly account, and I didn't want to pay monthly.

CARP I had used before - it is a free application that now has a couple upgrades to paid levels. I had found it not very user friendly, and did not have all the functions I wanted in a RSS feed converter.

I have a copy of RSS Wrapper. It is a simple tool to put RSS on your site, wrapped by your own content. Not alot of features.

So I was down to Power RSS and RSS FeedMaster.

RSS FeedMaster was created by the same person who made RSS Wrapper. I know he has excellent customer service, and really tries to over deliver on his products. I took a good hard look at everything that RSS FeedMaster could do - and I was quite impressed.

RSS FeedMaster allows you to do about anything you want with your RSS feed - from simple white hat techniques, to sophisticated Black Hat strategies (like removing any trace of ownership and links to an RSS Feed - ok if you own the feed - but a big no-no if you don't). RSS FeedMaster also allows you to use keywords to find the right content for your site. And it allows you to format the RSS feed in any way you need to make it look good on your site. Needless to say, since Richard ( the owner and developer of RSS FeedMaster) gave me a previous customer discount - I snapped it up. I will write a more indepth review once I get it up and running.

Power RSS looked like an excellent tools as well. It did many of the same things as RSS FeedMaster, although could not quite be as flexible with the look and ability to modify the feed for your site. One thing that Power RSS could do that I really liked is create an daily archive of your page with the feed on it. In this way, you could build your website a page a day over time using RSS feeds. I would really like to try out this feature, so I may pick up Power RSS as well and try it out.

I hope that gives you a little idea of the available feed converters that are available. I am sure there are others, and if you find a good one, let me know.
Thanks
Jack

P.S. - you can go to Power RSS to get your copy.