Day: June 21, 2013

Are you familiar with RSS feeds? RSS stands for Rich Site Summary, although some people refer to it as Really Simple Syndication since this is a better description of how it functions. RSS feeds aggregate constantly updating web content in a single location, using a unified format. This might sound complicated, but it is actually quite simple.

Say, for example, that you follow five blogs about parenting, but they all update at different times of the week, and different times of the day at that. Rather than having to check up on every blog daily or remember every update schedule, you can instead add them all to a parenting RSS feed that you create. Then, all you have to do is visit your RSS feed in order to see which sites have updated and when.

Free RSS feeds are easy to find, because with very few exceptions, all RSS feeds are free! Businesses and News sites benefit from them anyway since it draws people to their content. RSS feed links are often displayed on News websites, in fact, because they allow these sites to display all the most recent updates as soon as they happen, which is an important aspect of running a News website.

The most popular RSS feeds are usually those run by well known online companies, such as social media platforms. Overall though, there are RSS feeds for almost any subject you could think up. If you want to create your own RSS feed, it is fairly easy to do. If you use Chrome, for example, your Chrome RSS reader comes standard with your web browser. All you have to do is add URLs to your chrome RSS reader and you should be able to view them. Readers like the Chrome RSS reader are popular because they are easy to use.