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Speaking of RSS I want to focus on their value to generate traffic. I do not want to explain to fumble or get entangled in their specs but I will say that is a family of web feed formats that is encoded in a language called XML.
But this is not what we really want for our main objective.
The fact is that with this powerful tool you can provide to visitors who subscribe to your website through your RSS link and updated information automatically.
I’ll take the example of Google Reader, which is Google’s RSS reader, to give a clearer example of the picture. Enabling an account to access this service from Google you can subscribe to websites that offer you the possibility to subscribe via RSS and look into this account the various updates to such sites. That is, if you’re interested in site A and B, but also C, D and F, you would be a considerable loss of time to visit each of them for new publications on your areas of interest , and the “risk” of not finding new information on more than one of those sites.
So … What is the advantage it gives you the RSS?
As you can see for updates on the various sites from one place and have 1, 5, 10 or 15 sites. All in one place. Then you save an immense amount of time, especially when you go to many places.
But that is only part
What you just mentioned is the RSS from the standpoint of the average user who wants to save time, but now we see what we can do from the standpoint of content publishers, that is, from our own.
Today the concept of Web 2.0 is widely known and its technological complexity is even greater than that of the RSS, which is an element of it, so without going into detail, mention that social networks like Facebook, Twitter, among others are part of this great new world, then …