What Are Webfeeds (RSS), and Why Are They Good to Have For Your Website?

What is RSS? RSS (Known to stand for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary & Rdf Site Summary) is an XML-based format for distributing and aggregating Web content (such as news headlines). Using RSS, Web content providers can easily create and disseminate feeds of data that include, for example, news links, headlines, special offers, and summaries.

Webfeeds make it easy and efficient to keep track of the latest content published by your favorite sites. So what's a webfeed?. In a nutshell, a webfeed is a way for online venues to continuously "feed" you announcements of their latest content, with links to each new content item.

To instantly learn what's new on a site, just check its feed. When you're trying to follow developments at dozens or hundreds of sites, your time savings can be enormous. Webfeeds are an emerging communication medium, not just a technology. They offer considerable advantages to Internet users and online publishers, and they're an excellent complement to other kinds of online media.

RSS Have Many Benefits to Business Websites:

Many site owners have discovered they can easily utilize the information in RSS feeds to provide fresh web content. RSS feeds are composed in XML, which is a very simple markup language. Businesses can easily parse the RSS feed and dynamically. Site visitors can obtain these same new feeds in there favorite portals such as 'MyYahoo'. The feeds will continuously update, supplying a steady stream of automatically generated fresh content.

RSS allows website owners to:

1. Provide fresh and relevant content on their website, which encourages users to return.
2. Search engine spiders will visit your site daily for fresh rss feeds and in doing so will index your site pages more often (Very Important for a site owner, this helps with search engine ranking).
3. Automate content delivery.
4. The benefits of RSS feeds are not limited to webmasters, surfers benefit from the technology as well
5. Increase exposure in niche markets.
6. Communicate with user bases and reach potential customers via an alternate communication method.
7. Define themselves as an industry expert.
8. Automate content delivery.

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