What is RSS?

What is RSS
RSS is a technology that is being used by millions of web users around the world to keep track of their favorite websites.

Instead of using the old way (Saving Bookmarks), RSS pulls content directly to your RSS reader from a website.

How to Use RSS

The first thing you’ll want to do if you’re getting into reading sites via RSS is to hook yourself up with an RSS Feed Reader.

There are many feed readers going around with a variety of approaches and features – however a good place to start is with a couple of free and easy to use web based ones like Google Reader and Bloglines. Either one will do if you’re starting out – as I say there are many others to choose from but to get started either of these are fairly easy to use and will help you work out the basics of RSS.

Both of these feed readers work a little like email. As you subscribe to feeds you’ll see that unread entries from the sites you’re tracking will be marked as bold. As you click on them you’ll see the latest update and can read it right there in the feed reader. You are given the option to click through to the actual site or move onto the next unread item – marking the last one as ‘read’.

The best way to see how it works is to subscribe to some RSS feeds, you can try subscribing to our RSS feed.