

Popular RSS Readersīefore you add RSS to your website, it’s a good idea to become familiar with RSS Readers, if you’re not already a user. One thing to note is that RSS is in chronological order, so when a new article is published, the list of old articles is pushed down and a new one is put at the top, making it easy to determine when a new article is published by quickly checking this XML file.

Here’s an example of how a blog post might be listed in an RSS feed:

XML works by having organized tags (for example, pubDate is the published date) with the proper content inside of them. RSS is XML (eXtensible Markup Language) formatted plain text, so it is pretty easy to understand because XML really streamlines things with its structure. Website content is always changing, so RSS (Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is the format for delivering regularly changing web content, such as blog articles. It is important to provide this option to your site users so they can regularly view your content if they choose to add it to their RSS feed. An RSS feed works by creating data that is machine readable and then it displays that data to the end user in an easy-to-consume format.
