The benefits of RSS feeds
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What is an RSS feed?
RSS feed is short for "Really Simple Syndication" and sometimes "Rich Site Summary", I also hear it can mean, "I'm ready for some stories". It is a format used for delivering regularly changing web content, such as a hub or a blog. When a person visits a site, if there is a orange RSS feed it will be in the right hand side of the tool bar. Your RSS feed shows your most current stories. An example of what my RSS feed looks like is http://hubpages.com/author/kmackey32/latest/?rss. To Find your RSS feed, click on your profile and the RSS feed will be located under your picture. I right click on it and scroll down to properties. Your RSS address will open.
Anyone on the internet that publishes can publish a feed and it is very easy. You do not have to install a program if you do not want to. Some of the sites I choose to submit my feed too are My Yahoo, Google Personalized Homepage, My MSN or My AOL. These sites are all free.
My Yahoo
My Yahoo is one of the worlds most used feed readers. Once you are at the site click on Add Content on the left hand side. Look to the bottom of the box, you will see an add RSS feed, click on it. I always copy and paste my RSS feed inside the box. Then click I'm done. That's it, now wasn't that easy?
Google Personalized home page
On Igoogle, scroll down the page. On the left hand site you will see a link Igoogle for feed owners. Choose your content which is RSS or Atom feed. Choose how many feeds your promoting, choose your button style and, enter your feed in the space provided and finally click on Generate HTML.
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Many other sites are offering for a publisher to submit there RSS feed. Some sites include:
http://feedsubmitter.com
www.newsisfree.com
www.syndic8.com
http://www.freelinks.com/rss.php
http://www.2rss.com/
http://www.freefeedsdirectory.com/submit.php
http://www.bloglines.com/register
http://www.feedsee.com/submit.html
http://pingomatic.com/
Enjoy! And start submitting your RSS feeds.
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Your welcome. :)
Very nice summary, I'm not quite sure how to use them as well. Guess I need to get with it!
Awesome! I think I had RSS Phobia, as I was afraid my account was going to shut down by clicking that little orange and white square:P I'll give a try.
I think I should start using RSS as well. Until now I just refused to learn much about it or to use them for my online endeavours. Thank you for publishing this summary.
I think I must be thick! you say 'To Find your RSS feed, click on your profile and the RSS feed will be located under your picture. I right click on it and scroll down to properties. Your RSS address will open.' I don't actually see it right under my pic, a little below that is a rss link, I tried right clicking it and the menu just gives me options on how to open the link but not properties. I have tried submitting the link with yahoo after clicking it yahoo says its invallid, to just copy link on the right click is the same url and not accepted by yahoo, maybe its late but I am not getting it :)
After I submitted my feed to some of these sites my traffic went up by like 75% and also I had only been getting 1 or 2 clicks a day and yesterday I got 8. Let me know how it works for everyone. Thanks. :)
Thanks for this info.
BJC
Thank you for the information. RSS is the one I always wanted to know about. I am not sure how it works. I will try as you suggested.
ok great. Let me know how it works and if you have any questions just ask..
Nice one Kirsty, you deff know more than me about that ; )
I was reading up on it is all, badcompany, anything to get traffic. LOL
Hey thanks for the link! I was getting a bit over worked last nite I think.
Its great to see so many comments made here too, you deserve em! Well now I need my first cuppa joe, ta
Success Success yahoo have accepted my rss feed! tho they did deny at first but the second go was a success, Yay!
guess some of these sites can be glitchy or something :)
Great hub! RSS is something that I have never understood and has boggled my brain so much I've just ignored it. I'm gonna try submitting my feeds right now! Thank you :)
That's a really interesting hub, thanks.
Can I ask a couple of questions?
1. Does this give backlinks to your hubs?
2. You say you "always" cut and paste your feed to yahoo. Does that mean you have to keep doing it?
Very cool.
Been putting this off until I read your forum post and then your Hub.
Just did one for now to see how it goes.
Thanks for the info!
your welcome
I really like your hub...I am a newbie..and I cannot figure out this rss feed. My feed, where to put it, help!!!
I went to RSS in my blog my rss address is and right clicked my rss address was the same as my blog address, and I do not know where to put it. http://hubpages.com/hub/workin where do I put it? It does not look like yours above.
Thank you for the information. I am very new at Hub Pages and I did not have clue what the RSS represented. I will follow you instructions and see what happens. Thank you very much for this insight!!
Much needed info... I've been a little confused on the whole RSS thing... I know I need to incorporate it to be successful with commercial blogging.
Thank you, this helped alot!
Thanks everyone. I am happy my information is useful. Sorry I have been offline awhile. I will write a hub explaining. :)
Bless your sweet heart! Thank you so much!
Great info - I've never really understood the whole RSS thing but this has helped. Thanks!
Excellent! I copied a portion of your article to review more thoroughly!
I must add this to my list soon!
Thank you very much!
Thank you very much!
Great list! I only know pingomatic before reading your hub
gwennies pen says:
3 months ago
Thanks for the info on RSS feeds. I did not know what they were not being computer literate or experienced. Your information helped me to understand it better! I will need to try it out sometime...appreciate the input! : )