How do I use rss in relation to my website?

Question

Please give a detailed explanation.I am in my sixties and fairly new to building a website.I need to know what it does and how it works so that I can use it.

Answer 1

If you regularly create new content for your website you can submit your RSS feeds for syndication for all to find. You can also get your site visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed and they will be able to access your content very easily on their google or yahoo home page or via a news reader.

I use RSS feeds to enhance my search engine rankings and to give my site visitors fresh relevant content. I display google and yahoo news feeds that are relevant to my pages. You can choose to only display news feeds that have specific keywords in the text to help you optimize your pages for the search engines.

I use a script that generates proper html rather than java script, this way search engines can read it. Most of the other scripts use java script so it still would be helpfull to your visitors but not to search engine.

You can get the script for free with instructions at http://www.rss2html.com

Answer 2

RSS is a technology used for syndicated content. Most commonly it is used by news sites or blogs/journals. It is provided as a service to readers that want to use news aggregators to collect new postings from several different sites into one central location. For instance, if someone read the dilbert comic everyday, checked CNN's Technology section often, and also read their horoscope from some site, they could use an RSS Feed Reader (aka aggregator) to get it all in one place instead of having to go to each website individually.

RSS is stored in XML format and can include the full text of an article or journal entry or news item, or it may be designed to only provide a summary of the news item, requiring the reader to follow a link to the full item.

RSS feeds are composed of entries each consisting of a text, title, subject, date and link (generally speaking, though there are more details that can be added). They will contain anywhere from 10-50 of the latest posts / updates.

Several sites, such as iGoogle and My Yahoo can read and display RSS feeds in their customizable pages. Other sites, like FeedBurner, are solely dedicated to this task. Both IE7 and Firefox have RSS Feed Readers built in to them.

For a good tutorial on how to use RSS Feeds, see the source link I have provided.

Answer 3

Unless you provide new content periodically (like daily or bi-daily updates) you don't need RSS.

RSS is like a super-short summary of your website that you can provide as a "channel". People who like your writing/website can "subscribe" to a "channel" you "publish" as RSS, and when you update your RSS feed, they will see the changes as soon as their RSS reader refreshes.

In general, personal websites don't need RSS as they don't update often enough. And often, it's easier to make an e-mail newsletter instead, which can be archived on the website as even MORE content.

As an example: Majorgeek.com is an index of freeware and shareware available for download. You can visit them at http://www.majorgeek.com. Or subscribe to their RSS feed at
http://www.majorgeeks.com/news.xml, which tells you their last 20 updates. Your RSS reader, with that feed, can alert you to perhaps latest update of a program you already have, programs of a particular keyword, and so on.

Answer 4

http://rss.softwaregarden.com/aboutrss.html sorry I posted wrong link before...