subject: Advantages Rss Feeds [print this page] RSS feeds is a short form of Really Simple Syndication also know as news aggregators or feed readers is an invaluable tool for today's online industry. RSS readers automatically pull the content from variety of online sources like blogs, websites, articles, forums etc to your smart phone or desktop for you. By subscribing to RSS feeds, you can limit the quality and quantity of the information you receive.
It is a tool used by many online users for saving or get updated information from the websites or blogs that you like to visit them frequently. RSS feeds utilize XML code to scan the content of certain website in search of new information on page frequently and display the information to subscribers.
In addition to that RSS feeds offer many other benefits to both users and online publishers.
*They give latest updates about anything on the web like weather, software upgrades, music, and news as soon as it is published over web.
*It gives the power of subscription to users. Users are given an opportunity to subscribe to websites for which they decided to keep updated about the information.
*As the users receive information as and when information is updated, it saves most of the surfing time. RSS feed also provides summary of the related article and at the same time the user can prioritize which article or news to read first when browsing net.
*Unlike other services, RSS does not use e-mail address and keeps you away from spam. It does not use email address to send updates thus your privacy is kept safe.
*Unlike email subscription, subscription to RSS reader is very simple. The user is not asked with any questions and information and at the same time unsubscribing is also simple. All it needs to delete the RSS feed of particular website from your aggregator.
*This tool can also be used for advertising or as a marketing tool. As the users who subscribe to news related to your products and services, advertisements can be published in the RSS feeds without sending spam email to readers. As the users subscribe to your RSS feed, the advertisements are targeted.
*It is easy to publish for publishers. To publish RSS feed, the publisher doesn't have to maintain database of subscribers to send them instead the users will access to your feed using reader.
*As it links back to your website, increase traffic towards your website.
