Definition
So you've heard the term RSS feed but you have no idea what it is, right? Well here is a simple definition: RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication (or Rich Site Summary, depending on who you ask), and describes a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works -- such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video -- in a standardized format. If you've seen the little orange and white logo on many websites, you'll now know what that means.
The user subscribes to a feed by clicking on the RSS icon in a web browser that starts the subscription process. The RSS reader then checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new content, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds.
So What?
Well, this is great news for sites like the Association of Work at Home Women, The Work at Home Woman, freelancemom.com, and WAHM.com because it allows them to syndicate content automatically to their subscribers. It also benefits readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from their favorite websites -- or to aggregate feeds from many preferred sites into one place that they can view easily, without having to visit the sites over and over for updates. So in other words, the news comes to you; instead of you going after the news. And that is a huge time-saver, especially if you are looking for information from a variety of sources.
Can You Please Give Me an Example?
Okay, I will. Let's say you are a work-at-home Mom that is looking for additional income streams to supplement your finances. You visit the Association of Work at Home Women site, freelancemom.com, and your favorite USA Today blog throughout the day looking for new updates. This gets old after a while; because sometimes you find something added that you haven't read and other times you do not. So you see the RSS logo and decide to click on it to see what it is. You subscribe to those sites and then something amazing happens: the updates come to you automatically! You don't have to keep going back to the sites hour after hour to see if there is new information that is helpful to your situation. Now you have the Work at Home Women RSS feed, the freelance.com RSS feed, and the USA Today RSS feed coming to you instead of vice versa.
What Now?
The first thing you'll want to do is figure out which sites you want to receive updates from on a regular basis. Then you'll need an RSS reader -- like the free Google Reader -- to read your updates. Then it's a matter of watching your reader to see all of the new information you have so desperately wanted to see as quickly as possible. You have just saved time out of your busy day and hopefully found the additional income that you were looking for on your favorite websites. Now aren't you glad you asked all of those questions?
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