What is rss?

Posted on July 18, 2008
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Rss - Internet Fast Food

Well anyone must start somewhere in life. If you do not have a business then this guy is one ahead of you

RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and it’s like buying bread at the shop – see picture.

If your website have an RSS feed feature it means your shop has a shopping counter where you can display your latest content. It is coded in a computer language that is understood by what is called RSS reader software. If you enter a website’s feed link into any RSS reader software, it will at regular times go and check the RSS link address if there any new contents listed and if it finds new content, it will pull the content for you to read.

If your website has a RSS feed, it is possible for others to very easily publish your content to their sites.

Since your RSS feed can contain information such as the “date published”, the “author” and also a link back to the post where you published it to your blog, you may want people to add your content to their blogs. That way it will start building page rank for your blog making it easier to rank in the search engines. The wordpress plugin called RSS Footer can help you do that.

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