What is RSS And Why You Should Be Using It Today.
Someone email me awhile back asking what is RSS?
It seems like not a lot of people know this but (RSS) doesn’t just stand for just one thing. RSS usually stands for “really simply syndication,” but it can also mean “rich site summary,” or “RDF site summary” — RDF standing for “resource description framework.” That answers the question of what is RSS, but a lot of people still don’t have clue what it does?
What is RSS in the context of really simple syndication? Ok, stop pulling your hair out I’ll explain.
You see RSS is kind of like a tool that allows sites to give a quick summary of important links and descriptions in XML format.
XML = (Extensible Markup Language), this essentially allows them to syndicate their content by allowing other blog owners and webmasters to use this summary as part of a list of summaries on a specific topic.
Bloggers and webmasters collect these various summaries with something called a feed aggregator or a feed reader. You can one such tool a feed reader at Feed Reader. Rather than asking “what is RSS?” this tool will ask “where is the RSS” — and then find it. An aggregator finds RSS feeds to aggregate from any website that has RSS enable, some of the larger sites – such as Amazon, Google, Yahoo and MSN are all RSS compliant.
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One thing you have to remember is that a feed reader and an aggregator are two different type of tools. Most webmaster use an aggregator to pull ready made content from other sources like Amazon, Google, Yahoo and MSN. The script that is generated from the aggregator can be inserted into your blogs. This then creates an RSS feed that automatically pulls news items and blog posts whenever they appear. Whenever the blog or site page is refreshed, it will display the latest items.
This is good for two reasons. If you use your own RSS feed, you can get your content syndicated across the Internet without actually paying to submit dozens of press releases and contact dozens of blog owners and webmasters.
Additionally, using RSS feeds is good if you own a blog and want to add fresh content. This will allow you to constantly put new content links and summaries on your blog without spending the time to hunt around for related information. All you will have to do is select a feed aggregator and select a potential feeds from a list of news sites and authority blogs. Additionally, you will be able to input your own selections, allowing you to create custom feeds.
A feed reader is a tool that sits on your desktop and monitor your website or other peoples website or blog and whenever the content changes you feed reader pops up with a message letting you know that the website or blog have just been updated with new content. Here is an excellent feed reader tool to use this is the one I use myself everyday. Feed Reader
So what is RSS? RSS is a simple way in which to drive traffic to your blog and to display summaries of other blogs as well as keep you up to date of the latest thing going on in your niche. Blog Rush Traffic
I would love to here what you think about RSS and this article so leave your comments.
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David Thompson
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