Is RSS Here To Stay Or Gone Tomorrow?
By Kent Thompson
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RSS is exploding! We have seen it everywhere, from basic blogsites to
major news websites. If you haven't heard of RSS before, that's okay,
because I hadn't either until a few months ago!
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, or whatever you want it to
stand for. I have seen it also stand for RDF Site Summary, but it
really doesn't matter. What's important is what it does.
Here's how RSS works:
Every site that has constantly changing content has one big problem:
How do you notify your visitors when you've posted new content without
them having to scour your entire site every 30 mins? You could send
them an email, but that has several drawbacks.
First, you might not get your messages through the spam filters.
Filters are snatching more and more messages, and just to keep up
anymore you have to run all your content through spam-rating systems
just to find the likelyhood of it getting blocked. What a pain!
Second, people can be reluctant to give out their closely guarded email
address. I just talked to a friend of mine that said she signed up for
some newsletter recently, and then started receiving all sorts of spam
from other companies. This sort of thing is very common. How can your
visitors trust you if they just clicked to your site? You could be an
underground spam operation for all they know.
This is where RSS steps in and solves all these problems!
Instead of sending an email, you can have your website generate what's
called an RSS Feed. An RSS Feed is nothing more than a webpage with a
bunch of summaries of the new content on it. Next time you see that
little orange icon with XML or RSS, click on it and you'll see what I
mean. The summaries are formatted in such a way that an RSS Reader can
sort them out and display them neatly.
There are tons of free RSS Readers now, so if you don't have one, do a
simple Google search for RSS Reader and you should have no trouble
finding one.
All the visitor has to do is copy the little orange RSS icon link and
paste it into their RSS Reader program. The RSS program will
periodically download the RSS webpage and will display the new headlines
much like your email program will display your subject lines.
If you like one of the headlines, you can click on it and it will
display a short description and a link to the entire article. If you
want to read more, click the link and it will display the actual full
article on the website.
Here's why this is so handy:
You can now be notified of the new content or headlines posted to all
your favorite websites without having to do very much work! Imagine
putting twenty RSS Feeds into your reader and having it download all the
content in a matter of seconds instead of having to surf to each site
individually!
If you ask me, RSS is here to stay. All the major sites support it like
CNN, ESPN, Yahoo and Google, so that surely is a good sign! So go on
and fire up Google and get yourself an RSS Reader. You will be glad you
did...I sure was!
Find out how you can cash in on RSS technology that is revolutionizing
the internet! Author and programmer Kent Thompson makes it easy with
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