What is RSS ?
RSS feeds
RSS – A short form for ‘Rich Site Summary’. This is used to deliver the updated contents in any website. This is used for many news websites, weblogs, blogs etc., Using this updated contents are regularly sent to the subscribers. This methodology is termed as RSS Feeds in web world. RSS, some times being termed as “Really Simple Syndication”. These RSS feeds could be read using many software like RSS reader, feed reader, aggregator. To receive updated via RSS Feeds, the user must be subscribed to feed readers. In March 1999, the first version of RSS feed was created in Netscape.com. After that, Netscape did not involve any development of RSS Feeds. These feeds are plain text in XML format.
How does RSS work?
The webmasters are maintaining the list of notifications in a standard format. These list of notifications are termed as “RSS Feeds”. Special computer programs known as “RSS aggregators” are used for accessing these RSS Feeds and arrange the results for subscribers. These Feeds and aggregators are also called as ‘RSS Channels’ and ‘RSS readers’. Many news magazine such as new york times, BBC, Reuters are using this type of RSS Feeds for their visitors who opted-in for receiving the latest headlines in the websites.
How to build a RSS feed ?
If you want to create a simple RSS feed, you need to remember the following 3 essential components.
Title, Description , Link
Example :
Title : Allofinternet – Everything about internet
Description : This websites gives the details about internet in various topics such as blogging, earn money, webmaster tips and so on…
Link : http://allofinternet.com/feed/
The following XML coding must be stored in the above url ‘http://allofinternet.com/feed/’
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″ ?>
<rss version=”2.0″>
<channel>
<title>RSS Feed example</title>
<description>This is an example of an RSS feed</description>
<link>http://www.allofinternet.com</link>
<lastBuildDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 00:01:00 +0000 </lastBuildDate>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:45:00 +0000 </pubDate>
<ttl>1800</ttl>
<item>
<title>Allofinternet – Everything about internet</title>
<description>This websites gives the details about internet in various topics such as blogging, earn money, webmaster tips and so on…</description>
<link>http://allofinternet.com/feed/</link>
<guid>unique string per item</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:45:00 +0000 </pubDate>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
Where to submit a RSS feed ?
Choose the URL of the site which is going to be submitted for RSS feeds.
For example, this blog has two URLs for RSS feed. Scroll down to bottom of this blog.
RSS feeds
Here there are two type of RSS feeds such as ‘Entries RSS’ and ‘Comments RSS’. If you hover and click the mouse over Entries RSS, you will be taken to the following URL –> http://www.allofinternet.com/feed/
Similarly if you click ‘Comments RSS’ you will be taken to ‘http://www.allofinternet.com/comments/feed/’
These are the two URLs going to be used as RSS Feed for our blog. These two URLs could be submitted to the following best RSS Feeds
(1). http://www.feedage.com/
(2). http://www.feedagg.com/
All the best !