What is RSS?
When I first started to write my blog posts I never had any idea of RSS. But soon I came across this term and I tried to find out what RSS means and what it can do to my blog posts or websites.
I will try to explain ‘What is RSS’ in this blog post, and hope that the readers will be benefitted by the knowledge.
If you want to keep a track of my latest blog posts in http://2work-from-home.blogspot.com , you can do it in many ways :
What internet users did in the older times ?
Earlier internet users used to ‘bookmark’ websites and blog sites in the browser and returned to them regularly to find out the latest development in the sites.
But this method of bookmarking had many minus points, such as:
1. You will have to do the work manually again and again.
2. You will miss the latest developments if you forget to check the bookmarks.
3. If there is no new development in the bookmarked site, you will see the same information again and again.
4. If you are tracking many sites, it may get a little complicated at times.
Now, the most popular way of doing so, is using RSS feed. But what is RSS ?
What is RSS?
What are the benefits of using RSS?
RSS is the technical method used by millions of internet users throughout the globe to keep track of their favorite websites or blog sites.
RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’.
Now you can tell a website to let you know every time that they update their website or blog site. That is the thing what RSS does for you. The technique of RSS lets you save all the latest activity of your favorite site and you can read it in your own suitable time. The process saves you time and labor.
It is like subscribing to a news channel or magazine where the new issues are delivered to your email box at regular intervals. But here, the latest publishing’s are delivered to your RSS reader, every time they publish any new material in their website.
You must understand the advantage of RSS and how to use it. At first, you may find it a bit difficult to understand, but once you get along, you will not be able to go without this useful technique.
How to Use RSS
1. The first step : If you want to read the latest publishing’s of your favorite sites via RSS, you must first get a RSS Feed Reader.
If you search the net you will find innumerable feed readers with variety of features in them. But I would suggest a free and easy to use feed reader like Google Reader or Bloglines. These sites are very easy to use. You will find that both these works like your Email. After you subscribe to the feeds your unread entries will be shown as bold ones. You will be able to read it directly from the feed reader. After you read the entry it will be shown as ‘read’. You will also have the option of going right into the original website.
Have some practical knowledge about RSS feed reader. Subscribe to some feeds and you will be able to know more.
Where to find the feeds to subscribe to :
1. In your Browser :
It is probable that you will be able to locate the RSS Feed in your internet browser itself. Most of the internet browsers have it inbuilt in them.
2. On the site itself :
If you notice websites and blog sites, you will notice many links in the form of buttons in it. Among them you will find links called RSS, Atom, XML, Subscribe with Bloglines, and others. They will come in many colors, shapes and sizes.
This will mean that, you can subscribe to this website. You will be able to subscribe by clicking on the link and by following the instructions that usually follows.
To acquire more knowledge read the following: Click on the links below.
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Ideas On Adding Subscribers to Your Blogs RSS Feed.
Ideas On Adding Subscribers to Your Blogs RSS Feed.
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