RSS feeds allow you to share your content online for others to access

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds are a great way to keep your visitors up to date with your news and views, what’s happening on your site and in your online business - but the use of RSS shouldn’t be at the expense of a regular email newsletter.

To explain what RSS is and why it has everyone so excited, let me just start out on common ground with something we already know, a traditional website. Traditionally, a website contained whatever content may have been put on it and that content may be static or may change constantly. The problem here has always been that a user had no way of knowing when or if that content had changed other than checking back periodically or being notified by someone.

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It’s been pointed out to me recently, and rightly so, that although I’ve been telling everyone how important it is to have and promote and use RSS feeds for their sites, I haven’t stopped to explain anything about how one would actually go about doing that. Personally, I recommend the use of RSS Pixy Dust, but, if you don’t happen to have that available, it gets a little more complicated.

Companies need an effective content strategy when implementing RSS feeds onto their site

Most logically, I would have to implement some sort of RSS solution in order to track 1,711 companies. Manual entry of 1,711 feeds into a feedreader isn’t an option; I don’t have any programming skills; and I don’t have a budget to find someone to program a solution.

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The Google News RSS Feed / Google Reader Mashup

Once you learn the basic of creating and promoting an RSS feed, you will find it is as simple as creating a website. Here follows a basic step by step for creating a simple feed. Once you get the hang of RSS content and wish to work with something more advanced, a good instruction manual on Real Simple Syndication can help you achieve much more for your books, music, and products.

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You know you can attract more visitors if you could just reach them. You have a weblog attached to your site, and you write wonderful articles which receive much praise. What else is there to do?

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Using RSS To Promote Your Website

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The aggregation of RSS feeds is expanding exponentially, to the point that an estimated 75.3 million people currently use this news channeling system on a regular basis.

RSS Stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS feed is basically an XML file arranged in specific format to be read by different RSS readers around the world. Read more to know about how you can generate RSS feeds for your blogs.