RSS Feed What's up?
The main reason for using RSS is that with its help, the latest content and headlines of many different websites are directly accessible to the devices (eg laptop, PC and smartphone) of those people who have subscribed to the RSS feed in their favorite website. .
You will see the RSS feed in your favorite websites in orange color. Readers can easily subscribe by clicking on that orange color symbol or link.
If you like to read content from many websites, then you have to go to all those websites and complete your subscription by clicking on the same orange colored symbols.
Once you have subscribed, after that you can easily read the content of your chosen websites in your mail.
How to use RSS Feed?
To subscribe to RSS Feed, you will need a feed reading software, which you will have to install on your mobile phones or computer.
Feed reading software is a program that runs in the background all the time and waits for when your favorite website will post a new content.
And as soon as some new content appears in the website that you have subscribed to, then your feed reading software will immediately send that content to your mail or to the feed reader, so that you can read easily.
Many types of feed software are available for different platforms. There are two types of feed software, desktop-based and web-based. The names of desktop-based popular feed reading software are Amphetadesk, FeedReader and NewsGator.
The names of web-based popular feed reading software are My Yahoo, Bloglines and Google Reader. After installing Feed reading software in your device, you can subscribe to your favorite website and store it in your software.
Why use RSS Feeds?
There are many uses of RSS Feed which you may not know about. In such a situation, this question must have come in your mind that why use RSS Feeds in the end?
Using RSS Feed saves you a lot of time. This is because when you subscribe to the RSS Feed of a website, then all the updates of that website are easily accessible to you automatically.
Being a WordPress user, you will get the default feed feature of WordPress in it. But it is not that much user-friendly! In such a situation, you can burn your feed with the help of Feedburner and use it as an email subscription. This will really help you.
It is very important for every blogger to give RSS updates on his blog. Use the sidebar and navigation bar to add the Feed icon to your blog.
What are the benefits of using RSS Feed?
RSS removes the problems of those people who search every day on the Internet to read articles from websites and when they do not get to read something new, then they have to come back disappointed.
RSS allows them to always get information about the new and latest content of their favorite websites. RSS mails all those contents to the subscriber immediately after being published in the website so that those people can read the contents as soon as possible.
Due to this facility, their precious time is also saved because they do not have to visit different websites in search of new contents. They can comfortably read the contents of all websites from their mail.