The RSS Feed – a Great Blogging Tool

As discussed in a previous blog post, RSS is a great blog tool. When you use a web reader service such as Google reader and subscribe to your favourite blogs and news websites via their RSS feeds you can save yourself a lot of time.


Once you have your reader account setup you don’t have to visit each and every one of your favourite websites to check on whether there is any new information. All you need to do is log into your reader account and all of the latest information from your favourite blogs will be there.

Blog Tip – You Can Check Your Reader Account From Anywhere

The best thing is that all of the information that you want from the internet is collected for you by your reader account and you can read the new stuff whenever it is convenient for you.


Not only that, but if you use a web-based reader service like the ones I will show you in the video below then you don’t even need to be on your own computer to get your personalized web content. You can sign into your reader account from anywhere as long as you know your username and password.

In the video below I show you what an RSS feed looks like on a website or blog.

You will also learn about 3 different types of web reader services:

I will teach you how to subscribe to an RSS feed.

To subscribe to the BloggingTimeSavers RSS feed click on the RSS guy just below or on the top left of the page

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What is RSS?

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary. But you don’t need to know what it stands for, you need to know what it does and how you can use it to save you time.

RSS is a format used for delivering regularly changing web content such as blogs, articles and news feeds.

When you use RSS feeds, you are using a really efficient method to keep up to date with all that is happening on the internet.

Before RSS

Before RSS came on the scene if you wanted to keep up with your favourite blogs and news sites you had to visit each site separately and see if any new information was available.

This was a particularly time-consuming way to check for new and current information.

The RSS feed is usually indicated on a website by a distinctive orange and white icon.

You can see the BloggingTimeSavers RSS feed icon to the left of this post. (It’s the cute little guy reading the RSS newspaper)

RSS – the perfect blog tool

Using RSS feeds, you can literally have all of the new information available from your favourite blogs and websites brought to you, all in one single place on the web.

Using RSS feeds to monitor the content that interest you, saves you time and protects your privacy.

You don’t have to visit each site separately and you don’t have to leave your email address to subscribe to an RSS feed like you do when you subscribe to a newsletter.

Using RSS as a Blog Tool

Step 1 – you need to have a home for the RSS feeds that you subscribe to. Your home for your RSS feeds is called a reader or news aggregator.
In the past there were programs that you could load onto your computer to manage your RSS subscriptions but now the most commonly used readers are web based.

The 3 most commonly used RSS readers are:
Google reader www.google.com/reader ,
My Yahoo www.myyahoo.com
Bloglines www.bloglines.com

Step 2 – set up a connection between your favourite blogs and websites. They way to do this is to subscribe to their RSS feed.

For example if you wanted to be sure that you never missed one of our BloggingTimeSavers posts then after you have registered for your reader account you can  click on the RSS guy on the top left hand corner of the blog and now you will never miss one of our posts.

Step 3 – You can use RSS feeds to gather information and keep in touch with what is new and what other people are talking about in your special area of interest or niche.

In this way you always have the latest information and you can always find inspiration for your next blog post or article.

Click on our RSS icon just below to subscribe to our RSS feed and never miss an update from the BloggingTimeSavers blog again.

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