How To Use Earlymiser.com - Product RSS Feeds.

One of the things I am going to be doing on the blog is to provide constant tutorials on how to use the site. I realize that the whole concept of feeds, shopping by RSS, as will as the interaction with the product RSS Feeds is a little different and most people will need a little help.

Earlymiser.com is built around the idea of using RSS feeds to make your life a little bit easier. Every product at Early Miser has an RSS feed associated with it. We call that internally the product rss feed. Every product at Early Miser has one. The product RSS feed contains every matching store offer for that product. So you can subscribe to this RSS feed with your RSS reader or aggregator. I would recommend the new Google Reader - a great aggregator similar to Bloglines. Our product RSS feeds have been tested with Google Reader, Bloglines and Sharp Reader The feeds validate using Feed Validator so any RSS reader should be able to use them.

Here's an example of a product I buy a lot of for my Tibetan Mastiffs



This RSS feed is updated everytime the search result is updated at the site. Notice the most recent results that have been updated from Amazon marked in bold on the site. In the title of each entry we have the merchant name, the shopping channel (Amazon, Shopping.com, Ebay, and Yahoo) and the price for the product. Notice remarkably everyone seems to sell this at the same price $43.99 which is what I pay in Santa Fe for the same dog food. I really watch the price for this item as I might buy 5-10 bags at a time for the dogs. It's an excellent dog food especially if you have a primitive breed like I do. For those of you interested, here's the page Innova Evolutionary Diet in the 28LB bag.

I would use product RSS feeds if their is a product that you need to buy a lot of or want the very best price on it. Every product RSS feed can be added to your Yahoo page or your MSN page easily by click on the My Yahoo or My MSN buttons. This way you can get updated pricing on these items EVERY day. The feeds update when the prices change and our product feeds are updated. It's a perfect way to monitor the price of a product you are interested in - the prices are delivered to you in a format you can use in a variety of ways - not just email or the web. Next up I will explain how to use custom feeds on the site.



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