What is RSS?
Friday, February 12th, 2010What is RSS? RSS stands for more than one thing. Usually, RSS stands for “really simple syndication,” but also can mean “Rich Site Summary” or “RDF site summary” – RDF standing for “resource description framework.” This answered the question of what RSS is, but what can you do?
What is RSS in the context of really simple syndication? It is a tool that allows sites to give a quick summary of important links and descriptions in XML format. This essentially allows them to syndicate their content by allowing other blog owners and webmasters to use this summary as part of a list of summaries on a specific topic.
These Blogmasters and webmasters collect various summaries with something called a feed aggregator or feed reader. Instead of asking “What is RSS?” This tool will ask “where is RSS” – and then find it. An RSS aggregator is aggregated from certain large sites – such as Yahoo and MSN – and selected smaller sites, such as hand-picked personal blogs and news sites.
The blogmasters and webmasters then take the script generated by the aggregator and insert it into their blogs. This then creates an RSS feed that automatically extracts the news and blog posts every time they appear. Each time you update your blog or Web site address displayed the latest articles.
This is good for two reasons. If you use your own RSS feed, syndicated content can be accessed via the Internet without having to pay to send dozens of press releases and contact scores of blog owners and webmasters.
Additionally, using RSS feeds is good if you own a blog and want to add new content. This allows you to constantly put new content links and summaries on your blog without spending the time to hunt around for related information. All you have to do is select a feed aggregator and choose a channel potential of a list of news sites and blogs authority. In addition, you can enter their own selections, allowing you to create custom feeds.
So what is RSS? RSS is a simple way in which to drive traffic to your blog and to show summaries of other blogs.
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Cherie Ang
Owner and webmaster of Simple Work From Home Opportunity, running a Work From Home Internet Business Opportunity blog.
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