PeterD - 11:36 pm on May 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

Yup, just put it on your site as if it were an HTML file. Save it as

http: //www.example.com/rss.xml

(for example). Then put a link to it somewhere on your home page, using either anchor text or one of those little orange graphics. People won't actually follow the link in their browser, they'll use the link to copy the URL using the "copy link address" function of their browser so they can paste it into their RSS reader. Also, the little orange graphic notifies people that your site had a feed.

Finally, put this meta tag in the headers of on your front page:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="rss.xml">

Of course, change the href as applicable.

Finally, you can go to feed aggregation sites and submit the URL of your feed. In a couple days, they'll start requesting it (in some cases hourly).

Honestly, I wouldn't expect a huge boost in traffic immediately unless people are already clamoring for you to add a feed--but it's fairly simple to set up, and I think it's got a lot of future potential. It's a good bet that it will turn out to be worth the small amount of time and effort.