What Is An RSS Feed and How do you Use them?

What is a Feed?


RSS Feeds are used by large and small websites (especially blogs) to distribute their content effectively to their users even if the user is not on the site itself. Feeds lets users to subscribe to periodic updates that are provided automatically via a web portal or news reader. 


The updates of tbe site's contents is presented on widgets, gadgets and mobile devices and allow them to display blogs, podcasts, and news headlines from around the world. RSS is also known to give precise summary to the readers perspective in a Real Simple Syndication. 


It is used by webmasters to deliver content effectively and productively. Each feeds or item contains a title, article summary and a link to the article online to give a boost to the main site's traffic.






How can I publish a Feed?


-Blogging - You can easily publish feeds by blogging, all of the popular blogging platform like Blogger, Wordpress and TypePad automatically publish your contents feed.
-RSS Services - Web apps such as feedburner.com gives you the power to syndicate all of your content's updates.


Why people subscribe to RSS Feeds?


Most people subscribe to RSS feeds from news websites so that they are automatically updated when a news flash comes out. Some of the types of information that can be provided in RSS feeds include blog feeds, article feeds, forum feeds, news feeds and discounts feeds. It is also be used for distributing news about new jobs, new homes for sale, entertainment, calendar events, law enforcement, auction items and a whole host of other news-related topics. RSS feeds can also be viewed in a news reader, which continuously updates and shows unread feeds. 

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