Sorry, I am new to blogging, but I have a very stupid question.
What is RSS and what does it do?
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what RSS is
Not a stupid question. It's a great question. I wish more people were asking.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, which is a file format used by website/weblog publishers to easily syndicate blogs or other online content. RSS is sometimes used to refer to the syndication technology in general, but "feeds" or "web feeds" is starting to be used more often. The reason for the distinction is that there are actually other syndication formats, including Atom and RDF.
One important point is that RSS is not synonmyous with weblogs. Blogs just happen to be a great application of content syndication. Web feeds make it easy for readers to subscribe to a blog.
If you have any other questions about RSS or content syndication, please do feel free to ask.
For me, RSS is content
Basically, RSS helps other applications or websites get the actual content of blogs without having to search and peck through the blog's pages. I like to subscribe to lots of different blogs and put them all in one website (like BlogLines) that I read several times during the day. I don't have to worry about visiting each and every one of those websites to check for new content. RSS has helped make reading and subscribing to content on the web much easier and efficient.
RSS for search engines or people.
Howdy, Really simple syndication is great! There are three ways that I know of to place it on your blog.
The 1st way is script, thats the easiest. But the robots don't see it. That means it doesn't get listed. HTML and PHP are great, they both can be searched by the engines.
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