What RSS Is? How to Create RSS Feeds for My Website?
Really Simple Syndication in short RSS feeds will be extremely useful and the actual purpose of RSS is to receive regular updates of your hobby/interests (a particular website) directly to your screen i.e., your inbox.
Ex: To track DVD prices at Amazon, tech news, news headlines, podcasts, latest audio songs etc…There are so many interesting things you can do with RSS.
What is RSS? It is simply a method that allows a webmaster or a publisher to set up certain feeds (let it be photos, stories, news headlines, podcasts) such that anyone using a RSS reader (a stand alone application or using an email service) can subscribe to that feed and automatically pull down the syndicated information.
Set Up RSS Feed for your Website:
You need to create and publish a RSS XML file (the “feed”) in order to to set up an RSS feed on your website. It just looks similar to an URL – www.techzene.org/feed/rss/. The users or readers can then use that link to subscribe to your rss feeds using a mail id to receive alerts in their inboxes. You can also use the RSS URL into the RSS Reader program which automatically updates the latest information.
Each component of an RSS entry has mainly three parts – title, summary, and body. You add the title, summary, and entry date directly into the XML file, while the body portion is just a URL that points to the full entry posting. Your reader program will check the RSS feed regularly and pull down any new entries that have been added. You can really increase traffic to your blog by enabling RSS. With all the millions of blogs out there, you are lucky to get someone to visit your site and then remember to bookmark it and visit again. By making an RSS feed available and prominent on your homepage, readers can quickly and easily add a subscription to your RSS feed if they like your content — and once in their RSS subscription list, they will see your updated postings and headlines each time they check their RSS readers.
Most sites add the little “XML” button on their sites to indicate an RSS feed is available, or you’ll see the little +MY YAHOO button which allows you to add the content to your Yahoo page. And unlike email mailing lists that are often deleted and require personal information from users to sign up (at a minimum, their email address), using RSS to keep in touch with your visitors is much simpler and easier to do — no emails, no spam, just automatic headlines delivered to those who request them, with sign up and unsubscribe functions all handled by the user and his/her RSS reader. As a webmaster, you can use tools like SilverPop.com’s RSSDirect to design and build your XML pages and track user visits and results of your marketing efforts.
The Best RSS Readers and News Aggregators:
There are a lot of third party RSS readers out there that you can use to grab your favorite RSS feeds and display them on your desktop. If using Windows OS, you can try Netnewswire, NewsGator, RSS Bandit, Google Reader, Sharpreader, FeedReader, Feeddemon, and Mozilla Thunderbird. If you’re using the Mac, check out FeedTicker, FireAnt, MiNews, NetNewsWire, or Pulpfiction. Instead of manually visiting a dozen sites each day, now they visit you, or at least their feeds visit your reader. In one quick glance, you can see all that is new and decide if there is something you want to visit and dig deeper into. Isn’t it wonderful.
Watch the Video on How to Make an RSS Feed [Credits to Tinkernut]
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