Customer Reviews

FeedForAll RSS Feed and Podcasting Software

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I'm not exactly a computer expert. Actually 'computer expert' and my name should probably not be used in the same sentence. When I decided I wanted to create an RSS feed for my website, I was prepared for a long and painful journey. I had seen FeedForAll mentioned in a few RSS forums, so I gave it a try. In less than one hour I had my RSS feed up and running!!!

Programs that do EXACTLY what they should, and are SIMPLE to use are sometimes hard to find. If you need an RSS feed for your website, it just doesn't get any better than FeedForAll.

I created a podcast in just a few seconds with FeedForAll. They have a great podcasting tutorial, and information support section on their website. I was even able to use the free RSS to HTML php script to display the podcast on a website. I was really impressed with the software's ease of use. Kudos to this group for a job really well done. I'm very impressed.

You've seen RSS feeds used by big commercial websites like Yahoo, CNet, NY Times, and the BBC.

If you are selling anything online, then you need to keep up with this technology. You can syndicate your feeds and get lots of publicity for your products or services.

Don't do what I did and use one of the blog packages available online. The one I tried worked fine, but it was a complicated mess with zillions of files that left my website open to hackers too.

After it crashed for the fifth time I finally took the time to learn to do it the right way.

Using FeedForAll I was so pleased to have a basic understanding of the process and created my first feed in one half hour. Now I'm kicking myself for not doing it right from the beginning.

FeedForAll is a great buy. Get it today - you won't regret it!

feedforall is the best marketing program I have ever had. This amazing product has made my life thousands of times easier and has made my businness able to communicate with my customers in a new unique sort of way of using a technology call RSS. RSS is a great technology and feedforall has made my company's communication far more efficient.

This software is very easy to use. It makes creating, editing and publishing RSS feeds very easy. I highly recommend it.

Very pleased with the detail, presentation and ease of use right out of the box. It does require somewhat of a "techie" background, but overall I like it. A little time consuming to create an initial feed, but once you're done the maintenance becomes very easy. The completed RSS feed be get published right on Yahoo!s Site Explorer. Of course there is always a wish list. At the top of the list would be 1) the ability to integrate XSL stylesheets; 2) generate a "Google-style" XML feed. Including these two items would make this a 5 star product. By the way I email'd a question to the web site and got a very helpful and prompt response.

First let me state that the Great Mind Store (who sells this product on Amazon) was great to work with. Mistakes were certainly made on their end (e.g., shipped the wrong registration name and code TWICE). After I made a heroic effort to try to get the registration process to work that first time, Great Mind admitted they sent the wrong code, resent new registration information, and refunded me $10 for my initial trouble. When I also could not get the second code to work for registering the product, I ran the software in "trial mode" because that was my only option while waiting for help with the second registration name & code error (a response to this second complaint never came).

Let me just say I had attempted to write my own code for an RSS Feed prior to purchasing this software and the only problem I kept having after I'd load my legitimate RSS file into a Feed Validator (such as [...]) was that the feed (from the handwritten code) always produced error messages in the Feed Validator. I bought the software to overcome the glitches.

The FeedforAll wizard was easy enough to navigate through but the resultant RSS file was full of more ominous errors than my handwritten version. Trying to open the RSS proved futile (it could not be opened in any browser -- only saw error messages). It didn't get a chance to submit the RSS to a Feed validator because not even FireFox could open the RSS. I wrote many emails requesting tech support and waited almost two weeks to get a reply that never came.

I say "thank you" to the Great Mind Store for addressing this negative experience in a professional manner (and for refunding me the full purchase price). Yet I'm very disappointed with the software itself since it is so glitchy and only produced "error" messages in the browser. Trying it out proved to be a huge waste of my time. I now wonder if other reviewers on here work for Notepage, Inc (the FeedForAll company) because I had relied on their positive reviews to purchase this product in the first place.

In short: the product did not do what it claimed. Tech support was not merely slow, it was nonexistent.

Haven't used like I thought I might. I do not have enough fresh everyday content to make the most use of a rss feed. But it does work well.

Having only learned what an RSS feed was a few weeks prior to using this software, I was amazed at how simple it was to add one to our website with FeedForAll. Now we can offer our photography specials through an RSS feed if our customers want it. I am amazed at how easy it was.

This software really takes the guess work out of feed creation. The software will create RSS feeds in just a few minutes. It has a built in wizard and advanced users can use extensions that support things like iTunes and MediaRSS.
I even created a podcast, and it only took a few moments.