RSS Feed!!

Definition of RSS Feeds?
RSS  stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is also called web feeds. It is a content delivery vehicle. RSS is the format used when you want to syndicate news and other web content. When the content is distributed it is called a feed.

What goes in the feed?
You can either have a partial feed or a full feed. A partial weeb wil include headlines, a short summary of the content and a link back to the place where the content resides. Through a partial web you can encourage your readers to click and the read the full article. But there is also the full feed which means that the whole article comes into their newsreader and they dont have to go back to the website at all to get you content.

What can a feed do for you?
It does different things for content recipient and for a website publisher/company. For the content recipient the internet provides us with an access to information at the touch of a keyboard. However it has an awesome amount of information. The get can get updated, and they make it east to keep this flow of information.
For a website published it keeps your audience updated constantly. Feed keeps you in communication with your audience. It is the ultimate content delivery vehicle. News is the perfect content for a feed. For ages 18-54 old age year group internet is the number 1 choice news. Journalists use the internet to reasearch stories. You can update your product news regularly. If the headlines are flashy, chances are they'll quickly open it and read it.

How are feeds different from e-mail?
It is different from e-mail because it is a much secure delivery method. It has a 100% delivery rate, whereas e-mail only has 34%. Emails have heaps of spams and RSS has no spam. You can unsubscribe with a click of a button.

How do people read feeds?
To reciceve a RSS feed you need a newsreaded or content aggregator. There are Web-based readers like Bloglines and My Yahoo. Newsreaders are downloadable and you can install them easily on your desktop, an example would be the PRESSfeed reader, an easy newsreader which can be downloaded easily. Others may include NewsGator, they are avaliable free and paid. Newsreaders have a variety of special features, like combining several related feeds in to a single view, hiding items that you have already seen and categorizing.

How do you find the feeds you want to subscribe to?
They get picked up and published by other websites. Feeds are gainign the attention of the other search engines. Most of the time it come up high in a keyword search and we dont even know we are reading feed content. Feed search engines and blog search engines are everywhere on the net. As people are finding out about feeds they now often look for the little oranfe and gray icons that illustrate that the content is avaliable in a feed. Icon usually says RSS oe XML or simply web feed.