If you the blogger, then are almost for certain familiar with the principles of work of RSS technology which is called still fidy (from English feed – power, delivery, the channel). And, undoubtedly, for a long time understood what benefit is brought by this technology to you personally. The number of subscribers on the Feedburner counter quite often is considered a key indicator of popularity and a uvazhayemost of the blog. If you the reader (or future blogger) are also not familiar with the mentioned technology yet – that, perhaps, it will be interesting to you to learn about its primary benefits and conveniences.
What can the RSS technology be useful?
Remember several favourite sites or blogs which you regularly visit. The reasons for that can be a little. The websites of news offer timely, and, above all – readily available information on what is created in the world. Professional logs and blogs acquaint with special content. Diaries of friends tell about events from their life.
How does process of search of new information on the favourite websites happen? You should load each of them and to look at headings to define whether new information appeared on them. At the same time, if the website for the last day was not updated – you will just waste time for its loading. Besides you should spend time also for the organization of bookmarks of the browser or (that it is even worse) to keep the addresses of all favourite websites in memory. In fact, you perform mechanical work.
The RSS technology allows to change radically approach to receiving the updated content. Applying it, you will not worry surfing any more, loading additional windows in the browser and making sure that nothing new appeared. But you will receive all new articles on the special website (or the program) called the reader (from English read – to read).
Once having subscribed to a RSS tape, you will direct a flow of upgrading just to your house. From now on not you will look for new articles, and they will find you. And instead of visiting dozens of the sites and blogs, you will need to download the uniform website or the program and to receive all updates which appeared during your absence.
Besides, using a subscription to RSS, you obtain only useful information. You do not need to load to yourself on the computer of all website, so:
- you save traffic;
- you do not see annoying banners, pop-up windows and other advertizing stuff.
There is more. Thanks to RSS technology you see at once what articles are already read and what are not browsed yet and also see how many unread articles at you remained. All this is impossible if to use a usual method of loading of pages.
How to subscribe to RSS
To sign to RSS at first you will need to select the convenient reader. Alternatives there is a set. But the main difference is in whether the reader online or through separately installed local program works. In online readers the known services belong: Google Reader, Bloglines, My Yahoo, Yandex. Tape, RSS.I.UA other. Mozilla Thunderbird, FeedDemon, News Fire, etc. belongs to local programs which you can install on own computer, for example. It is also worth noting that all modern browsers are able to work with RSS flows actually today: Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Maxton and others.
After you register in the online reader or you will configure the local program of RSS syndication – you can pass to the second step. Namely – adding of the favourite websites and blogs to your reader. Having come on any blog, you almost for certain will see the orange RSS logo there. Click on it – and you will appear on the page of a subscription. There the most widespread ways of a subscription to RSS are specified. Select that reader in whom you registered earlier and the subscription is complete.
If among options there is no reader selected by you or the page of a subscription was displayed incorrectly (before your eyes – some unclear code), then just copy the address of this page and insert it to the reader manually. Repeat operation for all websites and blogs which content you want to trace.
Registration is finished. You can enjoy advantages of RSS syndication