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Understanding and Using RSS Feeds for your Blog

You love reading blogs but you don’t have the time to search from blog to blog finding a story that interests you. Try setting up an RSS feed to that blog instead. It’ll save you boatloads of time by making all the latest blog updates and news stories available for you right on one screen.

An RSS is basically is a set of web feed used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. It actually stands for really simple syndication and usually contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. An RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with your favorite websites in an automated manner that’s much easier than checking each website or blog manually.

One of the many positives about subscribing to RSS headlines and stories is they are immediate, and in real time. The moment a blog or news site publishes or updates their site with a feed at the source server, the next thing you know is it is on your screen. That is just one of the reasons why you need to start using RSS feeds. Here are some others:

  • News – Get the latest news on your favorite sports team, upcoming election news made by a political candidate or a feed from the local newspaper in your town.


  • Hobbies and interests – If you are interested in cooking, web design, painting, or perhaps cats, there are virtually hundreds if not thousands of conversations and bits of advice available to be fed directly to your computer screen.


  • Photos – If you’re one of those people who like to change your wallpaper daily or maybe update different pictures on your personal website, RSS feeds provide an excellent way to get the latest from photographers across the internet.


  • Catching up with friends – Maybe you have an old college roommate or a friend from high school that moved to the other side of the country and started up a blog. Now you can keep up with everything going on in their life by having all their latest entries fed directly to your screen.

Ok now that you know what makes these RSS so great and useful, here is how you can get yourself one and how they can work for you:

  • First, you choose an easy to use RSS reader. Most RSS readers are available all over the internet, free to use, and extremely easy to get the hang of.


  • Then, load up the RSS feeds into the reader you selected. You can do this any number of different ways. Depending on the blog or your own personal preference, you choices are through visiting the website feed directly, copy-pasting the special code from an email, or uploading copies from someone else’s RSS reader screen.


  • You’re all set and ready to start reading your web feed news. You only need to simply log in to your RSS reader page, or start your RSS software, and you can instantly scan all your web feeds. You can arrange and store the RSS feeds into folders, much in the same way you can with email, or you can set alerts and sounds for when a particular web feed is updated.

Understanding and Using RSS Feeds for your Blog

You love reading blogs but you don’t have the time to search from blog to blog finding a story that interests you. Try setting up an RSS feed to that blog instead. It’ll save you boatloads of time by making all the latest blog updates and news stories available for you right on one screen.

An RSS is basically is a set of web feed used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. It actually stands for really simple syndication and usually contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. An RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with your favorite websites in an automated manner that’s much easier than checking each website or blog manually.

One of the many positives about subscribing to RSS headlines and stories is they are immediate, and in real time. The moment a blog or news site publishes or updates their site with a feed at the source server, the next thing you know is it is on your screen. That is just one of the reasons why you need to start using RSS feeds. Here are some others:

  • News – Get the latest news on your favorite sports team, upcoming election news made by a political candidate or a feed from the local newspaper in your town.


  • Hobbies and interests – If you are interested in cooking, web design, painting, or perhaps cats, there are virtually hundreds if not thousands of conversations and bits of advice available to be fed directly to your computer screen.


  • Photos – If you’re one of those people who like to change your wallpaper daily or maybe update different pictures on your personal website, RSS feeds provide an excellent way to get the latest from photographers across the internet.


  • Catching up with friends – Maybe you have an old college roommate or a friend from high school that moved to the other side of the country and started up a blog. Now you can keep up with everything going on in their life by having all their latest entries fed directly to your screen.

Ok now that you know what makes these RSS so great and useful, here is how you can get yourself one and how they can work for you:

  • First, you choose an easy to use RSS reader. Most RSS readers are available all over the internet, free to use, and extremely easy to get the hang of.


  • Then, load up the RSS feeds into the reader you selected. You can do this any number of different ways. Depending on the blog or your own personal preference, you choices are through visiting the website feed directly, copy-pasting the special code from an email, or uploading copies from someone else’s RSS reader screen.


  • You’re all set and ready to start reading your web feed news. You only need to simply log in to your RSS reader page, or start your RSS software, and you can instantly scan all your web feeds. You can arrange and store the RSS feeds into folders, much in the same way you can with email, or you can set alerts and sounds for when a particular web feed is updated.

Begin Your Publishing Empire

Begin Your Publishing Empire

If you create RSS feeds you can start a publishing empire – just look at the rss feeds coming from the big media companies like the New York Times and others. Every hour they have people in-putting more news items – news, politics, feature articles, gossip and entertainment news – you could put anything in your feed?

You can have many feeds for all sorts of topics, just think of the possibilities for driving endless traffic to various pages of your web site where readers can access more information or a salespage, click on an advert like Adsense or some other product to buy – or to give their email address to sign-up for an ecourse or your email newsletter.

The possibilities for instant publishing via RSS feeds is endless, never before has it been so easy to publish anything, it has always been in the hands of the media giants – but no more – they don’t have a monopoly on the internet. The media giants are now down to your level – you are equal to them on the internet – they may well have a large following but, you can also have a large enough following for the information you put out in your RSS feed given time.

Your RSS feeds do not have to be international in nature looking for a worldwide audience – they can be localized for your town or city with local news, local politics, entertainment, sport, news, local gossip, travel – monetizing your feed by writing an article for a local business, and driving traffic to that page, you can charge good advertising dollars, with local businesses lining up for an ‘item’ spot in your feed. How many businesses could you take advertising dollars off in a week? How many feeds can you put out in a week? The possibilities are explosive in nature – yet so many web site owners struggle to gain any money at all from their offerings online – it’s a hard slog! If only they would keep up with technology – just like the media giants do.

Web 2.0 technology is here – yet I hear “What’s that anyway?” from all over the forums and blogs from people who have not caught up with it to realize the possibilities – like putting images, photo’s and even slideshows and video in RSS feeds, together with different fonts – instead of plain boring ‘courier’ – together with colored text and colored backgrounds, making the feeds more attractive to the readers – after all, a picture paints a thousand words – and certainly helps to get readers interested in your offer. See my website for “RSS Traffic Attack” my new ebook explaining it all in great detail.

Web site owners can be too bogged down in routine by rote – doing the same things day-in and day out, they need to step back and look around them at other possible ways of promotion – RSS feeds are free promotion and do drive traffic endlessly.

The technology is here – just use it.