What is RSS feed?how it works and how to add RSS feeds to your site

 

What is RSS?

RSS commonly known as Really Simple Syndication(or Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. 

 

 

Why RSS? Benefits and Reasons for using RSS?

 

RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually. You ensure your privacy, by not needing to join each site's email newsletter. 

How to find feed URL and add RSS feed to your site?

After configuring the settings of your site feed, your blog is now ready to be syndicated to the world! Simply enter one of the following URLs into your favorite feed reader, where your blog's content will be delivered and updated automatically.

 

Be sure to substitute in the correct blog address for blogname and the label you're interested in for labelname. Site feeds do not work with private or FTP-hosted blogs.

 

According to Google / Blogger, here are the special addresses they’ve provided for blog users.

Full site feed:

• Atom 1.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
• RSS 2.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Comments-only feed:

• Atom 1.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default
• RSS 2.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss

Label-specific site feed:

• Atom 1.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default/-/labelname
• RSS 2.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss/-/labelname

Individual post comment feed:

• Atom 1.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/postId/comments/default
• RSS 2.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/postId/comments/default?alt=rss

RSS feeds from Blogger seem to provide clean code. This is a good thing too because I don’t know of any clean RSS widget for Blogger.