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Back to Basics – What is an RSS Feed Reader?

Earlier today, I posted an article about how I was selling a few of the sites I have in my inventory. Within minutes of the post being live, there were a few comments and people were already viewing the post. Several hours later, I got an email from a reader who asked:

“How Come Some People see your Posts long before others do?“

In reality, the posts only get published once! But to readers, you may or may not see it until tomorrow, depending on how you subscribe to the updates of the site! If you subscribe via RSS in your feed reader (Which is what this post is about) you will have seen the post within minutes of being published. If, on the other hand, you subscribe via email, you may never see it until tomorrow! I use FeedBurner to handle email subscriptions, and they are automatically sent out between 11am-1pm. So if I publish a post at 1:30PM, you may not see it until tomorrow if you subscribe via email.

The reason some readers see them sooner than others, is that they use an RSS reader to monitor the feed for updates, and update them as soon as new content is available.

Instead of getting all technical on it – the video below explains it best! I use the Google Reader to subscribe to rss, and have more than 65 feeds coming into it… Quick, Easy and Free!

And Now – RSS In Plain English!

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I have been doing my part to "Build the Internet" since 1994, when I built my first website! Since then, I have built hundreds of niche websites for myself and many others, focused on design, applications, ecommerce, search optimization and internet marketing. 

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  • Anand Srinivasan said:

    There used to be a time when RSS feeds were the fastest way to know about new updates on blogs. On some high traffic sites, you get to interact with the author only if you post a comment in the few minutes he is online after making the post, and RSS used to help.

    But now, I guess Twitter and the likes have made RSS seem slower. But they are still my favorite for organizing several hundred feeds that I read on a daily basis..

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    # 4 January 2010 at 11:48 pm
  • Bob said:

    I’m addicted to your site. I get the RSS feed delivered to my Google home page and and email, usually the next day. Loved the video, I’ve seen others he has done in the past, he makes it interesting.

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    # 5 January 2010 at 4:01 pm
  • Randy @ Pink Leg Warmers said:

    Thanks for providing the video on RSS. It really cleared up a lot of things of issues on RSS that before were fuzzy to me.

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    # 9 January 2010 at 9:11 pm
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