Friday, December 7, 2012

What is an RSS Feed and What Are the Benefits of RSS?


An RSS Feed stands for really simple syndication and basically they are a representation of a website in order of most recent entry first. They are commonly used by news websites to provide news headlines in a feed format so that users do not have to go to the website to find out the news every-time. It is quite simple to set up one as well as use one to help you get all the information you need quickly, without having to browse to dozens of websites everyday. Whilst they are becoming quite popular among the internet savvy crowd of today, the large majority of the online community are unaware on how to use them and how they can benefit from them. If you have the opportunity you should take the time out to sit down and take an online computer tutorial on how to use RSS feeds because they will change the way you think about many websites.

Windows Vista and the newer Windows 7 have gadgets on the desktop, if you do not know how to use gadgets yet, please take a look at the video tutorials that are available online. Once you know how to use gadgets you will find there is a RSS Feed headline gadget that will allow you to read the latest news headlines, whilst these default headlines are not relevant to you, imagine if you could get the latest headlines say, for a video game website that you like. So every time you turn your computer on, and it connects to the internet it checks the feed for the website and puts all of the headlines from each news story in order of most recent. This is a huge time saver but so very few people are yet to use this type of feature at all. Many sites now have switched over to WordPress formats and blog type formats, as the user you might not be able to notice this but it means great things in the way of RSS feeds because these content management systems (CMS) like WordPress allow for easy to access RSS feeds for your PC. Once you have a website on these formats you can provide a link to your readers to get your information in a neat readable format.

In order to get the most from RSS as a user you should make sure that you are collecting RSS feeds from all the websites that are important to you. After a few short hours of using them you will wonder why you spent all that time trolling the internet for the latest news. If you have any trouble trying to set up an RSS feed application you should consult a computer tutorial for a step by step guide on how to get the most benefits from them.

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