RSS Feeds Explained - Why They Help Your Blog
Simply put, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. The RSS document is often called feeds or web feeds and it allows people to subscribe to your blog. They will be notified whenever you write a new post in the software they choose to get their feeds. This software is often called an RSS reader, feed reader, or aggregator.
Subscribers can use various tools to see your new articles. As a publisher, you may allow your readers to get the title and the full article written or just a summary. The most important thing you need to know about RSS feeds is that they help your blog gain readership loyalty. They are going to be notified whenever you write a new article and if the title and intro interests them enough, they will go read your article.
This is another reason why it is important for your blog to have well written titles designed for not only SEO but with your subscribers in mind. I’ll write more on that later though.
As a publisher, you should be well informed about RSS and hopefully you use it yourself. It’s good for you to keep up to date with not only my blog (subscibe to blog4booty) but other blogs that are related to your blog. By subscribing to other blogs you can keep up to date with the community of bloggers which is an important community to belong to as a blog publisher. Getting involved is very important for you to create recognition for yourself and your blog, getting inbound links, and getting news that you yourself should be genuinely interested in reading.
Learn more about RSS feeds:
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August 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 am
[...] You can read a bit more from FeedBurner’s Wikipedia entry or from FeedBurner itself. For you new bloggers just getting started and are a bit lost, see my article on what RSS feeds are. [...]