What Is RSS and How It Works

RSS is also known as 'Really Simple Syndication'. It is one of those formats that regularly help in delivering the constant change in the web contents. Often online publishers along with many of the weblogs and sites related with news syndicate their own contents as an RSS Feed for those who want it. Coming to a basic question - What is RSS?

In simple words RSS is the most efficient and fast way to know about everything that is available on the internet. You stay tuned with the current information that has been posted recently in a particular website. Most of the websites use RSS as a tool of efficiency to help their subscribers to provide them with information they are looking for in a fast possible way. Once the subscriber subscribes to RSS, all the updated information is automatically downloaded to the subscriber's window.

You use RSS to constantly receive updates from the websites. After subscription to a particular blog or website, it enables us in keeping a good track of the recent updated information instead of wasting time in visiting the sites on regular basis. All the updated information is transferred automatically to the subscriber.

Thus, you can just visit the RSS feeds and can have all the information which he or she is longing for and which has been updated. In case of necessary or further information you can still follow the link in the RSS reader and with the click of the button can have excess to the website and gather all the necessary information you are looking for. Therefore the use of RSS reader is considered to be the safest and the fastest in order to stay tuned with the current updated information.

How RSS Works:

RSS can be considered as a best friend of the person who is a frequent user of the web. Therefore, if one enjoys the company of the internet and is a constant surfer then subscribing to RSS can prove to be very helpful for him. Without entering into the hassle of constantly visiting different sites for updated information he or she gets all the updated information quickly.

You can also skip the information you think is unnecessary and just keep what you want. Another factor that adds to its benefits is that you can also judge by just looking in one place if the required information is added to the website or no.

Once a website has provided the RSS feed, it will then display an orange and a white box right next to the URL field for website one is visiting. Clicking this button, you can easily subscribe to the RSS feed. Once subscription starts it will ask you about the location where the feed is to be sent. You can choose from few different locations such as yahoo or Google. If you choose Google then Google automatically sets a homepage for the subscribed RSS feed, which makes it simple and even faster without any hassle. Once the Google page is visited you will be able to see all the updated information in a matter of seconds.