What is RSS Feed? (with Definitions)

Beginners in blogosphere may be wondering what is this RSS feed all about? Many questions arises like is it accessed by paying or is it safe to subscribe by providing our email and so on.

RSS Feed for a blog simply means reading or accessing the new or old blog posts of the blog in a more convenient way, say using an RSS feed aggregator in a web browser, through mobile, through email subscription or through other ways. Most of the bloggers offer Free Email Subscription to the readers using this RSS Feed to update them about the latest posts.

Check out: Comparison of feed aggregators

Read some Definitions of Web Feed or RSS Feed:

“A web feed is a data format used for serving users frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users …”

“RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts…”

“Really Simple Syndication is a popular technology for notifying users of updates to content in a website, blog, or Internet TV channel…”

Benefits for Bloggers?

RSS Feeds helps the Bloggers to send their new/updated posts to the readers through e-mail and other ways mentioned above. Offering email subscription is becoming more popular since it is free, clean and significant way of informing the prospective readers about the new posts! Blogger can have an account with Google’s Feedburner to offer subscription services to the visitors. Feedburner has got multiple features like subscribers stats, feed publicizing tools and feed monetization (now integrated with Adsense).

Example of an RSS Feed by Feedburner:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheTipsBlogger

Hope beginners got what is this RSS Feed all about now!

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