What is an RSS Feeds?
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RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary, and is a very cost effective method to bring your information to your clients and potential clients.

RSS is a simple yet very effective way to save time by having access to all the information in one place. By using RSS you significantly increase your productivity and efficiency by not having to navigate over tens if not hundreds of websites to access the fresh content.

By providing content that is interesting, and then allowing your visitor to opt in to an RSS feed you are allowing them to be in control building potential repeat traffic. One of the most important things you can do when it comes to getting traffic is to concentrate on getting repeat traffic.

By utilizing this type of software any information you require regarding where you have subscribed to will be available to you at just a click of your mouse. You can easily go to the Google reader page for example to get your reader. Then just follow the instructions. From there you just need to bookmark this page where your feed reader is on.

With the growth of RSS technology, you can read a number of websites into your website. When these blogs are updated, those changes will all be reproduced in your site. A great, simple method of uploading new content with little effort

If you want to see an example of a rss feed, just go to feedburner, this is a Google site and it is used to track and promote your RSS feeds. Just type "Feed Burner" into Google and it will be the first link. You can search others RSS Feeds Here and see what "exactly" an RSS feed is.

RSS feeds are composed in XML, which is a very simple markup language. Similar to HTML, XML uses tags to identify fields. Webmasters can easily parse the RSS feed and dynamically create web pages that contain headlines and summaries. The feeds will continuously update, supplying a steady stream of automatically generated fresh content.

Save Time

For the content reader, an RSS feed saves valuable time. Instead of constantly calling up a favorite site and scrolling through information, the article addition is submitted straight to the feed. Then, it is only a matter of going to the reader and seeing what has been posted on the site since the last visit.

Content published in an RSS feed is typically set up to send out notifications whenever new material is available. This makes the new content immediately available to feed readers and RSS search engines. Contrast this with ordinary web pages, which are essentially passive and generally aren't accessible to most of us until search engine crawlers find and index them.

RSS feeds are a great example of how far internet technology has come today. By enabling people to receive updates at a fast rate and in one location, these feeds are not only saving user's time, but enabling a wealth of information to spread throughout the internet like never experienced before.

RSS Feeds Display is the input side of RSS from the point of view of your site. Essentially you are bringing in RSS feeds and displaying items from those as content on your site. That's the RSS feed as content Input.

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