What are RSS Feeds?

Feeds are known as RSS which stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’.

When you subscribe for RSS feeds belonging to different websites, you will automatically get the new contents or post as soon as they are published either through email or through your feed reader, without having to visit the individual websites you have subscribed the feeds from.

How you will receive the feeds will depend on whether you have signed up for the feeds via email or in a reader format.

If you sign up for a RSS feed in a reader format, you would need a feed reader to view your feeds. A feed reader will automatically check whether any new feed is added by the website owner(s) and lets you read any new contents that have been added. Below are some of the common feed readers which you can sign up for an account:
1. My Yahoo!
2. Google Reader
3. Bloglines
4. Newsgator
5. Pageflakes
6. My AOL

Note: If you are using Mozilla Firefox browser (a feed reader), you can read your feeds that are stored in your Live Bookmarks or you can click the RSS icon on the right side of the URL address box. This is provided that you have subscribed to feeds that you intend to read in this manner. See explanation below.

How to subscribe to my feeds?
The feeds in my website is powered by FeedBurner. If you are interested to subscribe to my feeds, all you have to do is to decide on how you want to read the feeds. If you want to read the feeds through a feed reader, you have to click the orange RSS icon or text link as shown below:

Once this is done, you will then be taken to a page where you have the option to choose either:

1. the feed reader (you must have an account with them) that you want to use.

2. to view the feeds via a browser (Mozilla Firefox, Opera or Safari) by clicking the “View Feed XML” link.

Finally, if you wish to receive the feeds through email, you should click the link as shown below:

Once this is done, you will then be taken to a page where you are required to provide your email address to subscribe to the feeds:

Note: Some websites will provide a signup form for you to subscribe to their feeds instead of the above text link. See example below:

I hope this post on RSS and how to sign up and use the RSS feeds is useful.

For those of you who are new to RSS feeds, you may wish to try it out and subscribe to my feeds.

If you like this post, please consider subscribing to this site’s RSS feed. You can also subscribe by email and any new posts will be sent directly to your inbox.