The Technology Pro – RSS is Really Simple

If you have spent any time on the web lately, I am sure that you have come across the RSS icon’s on many of your favorite blogs and websites. RSS stands for really simple syndication.

Even though RSS claims to be really simple, there are many who don’t quite understand the concept or how to use it. Once you understand how RSS will benefit you, you will see that it truly is really simple.

Syndication allows content to be pushed to a reader. Let’s say you have a blog and you are writing entries on a regular basis. It is important to you that a notification of your new entries gets sent to all you readers. Otherwise you are just posting for your mom, and she really doesn’t get it anyway.

In the early days of blogs, most bloggers would just send an email to their list announcing a new entry. With the advent of spam and spam blockers, unfortunately, many of these emails didn’t go through. RSS to the rescue.

With RSS you no longer have to send an email announcing a new post. All you have to do is get all you readers to subscribe to you RSS feed. Whenever you create a new post, your RSS file gets updated. Readers who have included your site in their news readers will automatically get a notification when the reader checks your site feed.

Most blogging programs will automatically create this RSS feed for you. As you create new posts, the feed is updated. Your new post is now ready for the readers to query.

For those of you who would like to be notified on my new posts, just use this link:

http://www.thetechnologypro.com/atom.xml

You may have to cut and paste it into your news feeder.

Let me know if it works,


Marc