What Is RSS?
Written by PLRMan on November 7, 2008 – 2:24 pm -Do You Understand What RSS Is?
RSS stands for more than one thing. RSS usually stands for “really simple syndication” but it also can be “rich site summary” or “RDF site summary”.
The meaning behind, ’RDF’ is resource description framework. That answers the question of what is RSS, but not what it can do.
Exactly what is RSS in the realm 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.
Blogmasters and webmasters collect these various summaries with something called a feed aggregator or a feed reader. Rather than asking, “what is RSS”, this tool will ask “where is RSS” and then find it.
The aggregator tool will locate RSS feeds and collect them from various sites such as, Yahoo and MSN, and will select smaller sites like a personal blog or a news sites.
The blogmasters and webmasters then take the script generated from the aggregator and insert it into their blogs. The RSS feed is then created in this way and will automatically start pulling news items and blog posts each time they come up. In addition, each time the site page or blog is refreshed, all the latest information collected will be displayed.
Taking advantage of this tool is good for two reasons. By using your own RSS feed, you will be able to have your content distributed across the internet without having to pay each time you submit a press release, or contact other blog owners and webmasters.
Additionally, using RSS feeds is good if you own a blog and want to add fresh content. This will allow you to constantly put new content links and summaries on your blog without spending the time to hunt around for related information. You just need to choose a feed aggregator to select the potential feeds you can use and these can be found on a list of news sites and authority blogs. Additionally, you will be able to input your own selections, allowing you to create custom feeds.
So what is RSS? Simply put, using RSS is a very easy way to generate traffic to your blog and to display additional summaries you find on other blogs.
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