What is RSS feed?

by Harsh Agrawal on May 22, 2009

Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.

This is the most common term which is used on Internet, If you don’t know about RSS feeds, read this :

RSS is a technology which lets you keep track of any updates from your favorite website using any feed reader.

Most common practice to keep track of any website updates by user is bookmarking them and open them every day to check for updates.

RSS feeds enables you to notify all the updates from your favorite website. You can use any feed reader that includes Google reader, feed demon , iGoogle, yahoo homepage and more.

In most of the website you will see an icon like this :

You can click on any of these icon and then subscribe to feeds.

When you subscribe to any website feeds, whenever website will write a new post, you will be notified using your RSS feed reader.

Why you should use RSS feeds?

RSS feeds helps you to save lots of time. After subscribing to RSS feeds you don’t have to open website every time to see the updates. You can simply use any feed readers to get the updates about the website.

How to subscribe to any website feeds?

If you will notice most of website you browse has a Orange icon for feeds, like shoutmeloud has on the sidebar. Click on the link and there you will have option to subscribe to feeds using your favorite service.

Foe example , when you click on Shoutmeloud feed subscription option either by clicking on the sidebar or by clicking on this link : Subscribe to shoutmeloud feeds

You will be redirected to a new page, where you can select How you can subscribe to the feeds.

If you use Yahoo homepage or igoogle as your homepage, you can click on the icon to subscribe to feeds.

I have created this video to understand how you can subscribe to any website

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1 Himanshu May 22, 2009 at 07:22

You clear all my doubts about RSS feeds, i had some confusion regarding this topic. Thats why i love Shoutmeloud, simple and best.:-)

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2 Harsh Agrawal May 22, 2009 at 11:19: Thanks for the Kind words Himanshu. I appreciate that

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3 Raju May 23, 2009 at 08:48

very informative post Harsh.

4 Curious Little Person May 23, 2009 at 17:34

nice simple post with complete information about RSS

Keep up the good work!

Cheers
Sandeep

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5 George Serradinho May 25, 2009 at 20:35

Hi Harsh,

I rather subscribe to RSS via email as it’s easier for me, but I do know a lot people who use the other way

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6 Harsh Agrawal May 25, 2009 at 21:30: Hey George
Though when you have lots of Email to follow, it always create a problem by subscribing to Email.
I will recommend have a look at My previous post on RSS feed reader : Feed demon. I’m sure you will like it
http://www.shoutmeloud.com/best-desktop-feed-reader-client-feeddemon.html

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7 Kikolani May 26, 2009 at 03:42

Explaining RSS feeds to your visitors is a great way to help others use RSS to their benefit, and gain a subscriber as well. It’s a good post to reference near areas where you ask others to subscribe.

~ Kristi

8 Harsh Agrawal May 26, 2009 at 23:54: Thanks Kikolani for commenting..
Such post actually work as backbone for further posts. I think every blog should write basic post first so that they can use it as a referrals later on, instead of sending traffic to external links.

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9 Rohit November 19, 2009 at 16:43

Nice introduction..Public need it..