Embed an iStockphoto RSS feed into your website using Google Feedburner
Let’s get to it. To start with, I’m an iStockphoto contributor. At the moment I contribute vector illustrations, but I’m looking to get into photography at some stage too.
Today, we’re going to find out how to:
- Find your iStock recent image RSS Feed
- Use Google Feedburner to embed the iStockphoto RSS feed into your website
- See how many people are clicking on your feed links
Please note, this method I am about to describe allows you to embed up to 10 images from your iStock recent uploads into your website. Why 10 you ask? Well that’s all that comes out of the iStock feed. Also, I am using Google Feedburner as it lets you get statistical information on click throughs etc plus it automatically updates your website with your most recent images. Feedburner will provide you with a fairly basic looking feed, but you can style it more if you know some CSS coding. If you don’t know CSS maybe find someone who does and they can style it for you.
Whilst this tutorial specifically refers to embedding an iStockphoto RSS feed into your website, you can also apply some of the methods listed here to embed any other RSS feed you may have into your website.
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