What Is An RSS Feed

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If you search for the term "What is an RSS Feed" or "What is RSS" using the local search engines, chances are you'll be come to web sites trying to explain the definition of "What is an RSS feed" in such a technical manner that you still won't have a clue what is RSS even after reading it.

I’ll explain what is an RSS feed in the simplest manner to you.

Take the example of a radio station. A radio station has many channels, such as jazz, pop, rock, classical and so on.

Once the radio station has created these channels, it merely broadcasts each channel out with the relevant musical content in them.

Anyone who wishes to listen to a particular type of music just needs to tune into that specific channel.

For example, if someone wants to listen to classical music, he or she tunes into the classical channel.

If there was no broadcast technology, the radio station would have to deliver a CD containing that day’s radio programs and send out to tens of thousands of people each day. Not very practical right?

Or perhaps the listener would have to go out and get the CD containing the radio station’s recorded programs for that day. Again, not very practical.

What is an RSS feed then, and how is it similar to radio station channels?

RSS feeds are like the channels of a radio station, with different types of subject contents, for example, some RSS feeds could contain contents on personal development, another RSS feed might containt jokes and another RSS feed might contain contents on marketing, investment tips, trading techniques, etc.

All that the online user needs to do to read an RSS feed or to obtain the information is to subscribe to the RSS feed, and this is similar to ‘tuning in’ to a radio station.

Once you understand what is an RSS feed, the next question might be "How do you read an RSS feed"?

RSS feeds are read using what is known as an RSS newsreader, which displays the contents in the RSS feeds in a manner that can be read and understood, very much like your local daily newspaper.

You can try a popular RSS newsreader, called Tristana Reader for free, for 14 days.

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About the author:

Brandon is the author of "Marketing Rampage with Blogs and RSS" Videos that teaches online businesses strategies to getting more free targeted leads, subscribers and traffic, turning them into highly responsive visitors and sales without additional advertising costs, as well as increasing search engine rankings and obtaining quick listings in Google, Yahoo and MSN, by using Blogs and RSS.

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