RSS Schedule

The RSS tool takes content from your blog (or any RSS feed) and sends it as a message to your subscribers automatically. The RSS driven campaign will check daily to see if anything has been added to your RSS feed in the past 24 hours. If there's new content, the message will be automatically created and sent out.

Create an RSS Template

You can customize your message template for the RSS Schedule using RSS feed Merge Tags:

Merge Tag	Definition
<!-- cirssstart -->	Start the loop of the RSS feed
<!-- cirsstitle -->	Subject of an entry in each loop
<!-- cirsscontent -->	Content of an entry in each loop
<!-- cirssrsslink -->	Link of an entry in each loop
<!-- cirssimageurl -->	The thumbnail image of an entry in each loop
<!-- cirssend -->	End the loop of the RSS feed

Please click here to see the full list of RSS feed merge tags.

Examples

Basic RSS Feed Loop

This will loop through the RSS feed and display the articles

RSS HTML Code Snipit

<!-- cirssstart -->
<h1><a href="<!-- cirssrsslink -->"><!-- cirsstitle --></a></h1>
<p>
    <!-- cirsscontent --><br />
    <a href="<!-- cirssrsslink -->"><img src="<!-- cirssimageurl -->"
 style="border:0; line-height:100%; max-width:612px; outline:none; 
text-decoration:none; vertical-align:bottom" width="175"></a>
    <a title="<!-- cirsstitle -->" href="<!-- cirssrsslink -->">Read More &raquo;</a>
</p>
<br />
<!-- cirssend -->

Basic RSS Feed Loop with Table of Contents

This example will loop through the RSS feed twice: first for a table of contents, and then for the RSS articles

RSS HTML Code Snipit

<ul>
	<!-- cirssstart -->
	<li><a href="#<!-- cirssentrynumber -->"><!-- cirsstitle --></a></li>
	<!-- cirssend -->
</ul>

<table>
	<tbody>
		<!-- cirssstart -->
		<tr>
			<td>
				<p><a name="<!-- cirssentrynumber -->"></a><a href="<!-- cirssrsslink -->"><!-- cirsstitle --></a></p>
				<p>Published: <!-- cirsspublisheddate --> <!-- cirsspublisheddatetime --> <!-- cirsstimezone --></p>
				<p><!-- cirsscontent --></p>
			</td>
		</tr>
		<!-- cirssend -->
	</tbody>
</table>

Insert Advertisements Between RSS Articles

This example will insert different advertisements into the loop, after the 4th and after the 8th article.

RSS HTML Code Snipit

<table>
	<tbody>
		<!-- cirssstart -->
		<tr>
			<td>
				<p><a name="<!-- cirssentrynumber -->"></a><a href="<!-- cirssrsslink -->"><!-- cirsstitle --></a></p>
				<p>Published: <!-- cirsspublisheddate --> <!-- cirsspublisheddatetime --> <!-- cirsstimezone --></p>
				<p><!-- cirsscontent --></p>
			</td>
		</tr>
		<!-- cirssinsertstart 4 -->
			<tr><td>Ad 1</td></tr>
		<!-- cirssinsertend -->
		<!-- cirssinsertstart 8 -->
			<tr><td>Ad 2</td></tr>
		<!-- cirssinsertend -->
	<!-- cirssend -->
	</tbody>
</table>

Customize Each Article Layout

You have the ability to customize how each RSS article looks. For example, you could show images with the first couple of main articles, but have the rest show as a list of links. The example below will display entries 1 through 4 with thumbnail images and text, but articles 5 through 8 will be a simple list with no images.

RSS HTML Code Snipit

<table>
	<tbody>
		<!-- cirssstart 1 4 -->
		<tr>
			<td>
				<img src="<!-- cirssimageurl -->" alt="<!-- cirsstitle -->" height="100" width="100">
			</td>
			<td>
				<p><a name="<!-- cirssentrynumber -->"></a><a href="<!-- cirssrsslink -->"><!-- cirsstitle --></a></p>
				<p>Published: <!-- cirsspublisheddate --> <!-- cirsspublisheddatetime --> <!-- cirsstimezone --></p>
				<p><!-- cirsscontent --></p>
			</td>
		</tr>
		<!-- cirssend -->
		<!-- cirssstart 5 8 -->
		<tr>
			<td>
			</td>
			<td>
				<p><a name="<!-- cirssentrynumber -->"></a><a href="<!-- cirssrsslink -->"><!-- cirsstitle --></a></p>
				<p>Published: <!-- cirsspublisheddate --> <!-- cirsspublisheddatetime --> <!-- cirsstimezone --></p>
			</td>
		</tr>
		<!-- cirssend -->
	</tbody>
</table>

Create an RSS Schedule

After creating the RSS message template, you can select this message in the RSS Schedule setup screen.

Open the Tools folder in the left menu, then click RSS Schedule (Note: if you do not see the RSS Schedule option and would like to use it, please contact your account administrator)
Click Create
In the RSS schedule setup, select the RSS message you created with the RSS template code above
Add the message details like subject and from address
Select a list to send the RSS messages
Enter the full URL for the RSS feed URL (including the http://)
Select the max number of entries to include in each message sent out
Click Preview to view the message that will be created from the RSS feed
Select the send frequency (daily/weekly/monthly) and time of day to send the message
Once everything is set up, change the status to Active. This will make the RSS Schedule live.