What is RSS?
Basically, you use RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to subscribe to a “feed” for a website, blog or almost any media content online (not just articles, it can be music, video or almost any digital media). By subscribing to the feed you do not have to visit a website to read the latest and greatest content. Instead you use your preferred feed reading software or a website to read the latest articles, content, videos, etc. I like to use Google Reader but there are a wide number of different RSS readers available.
The greatest benefit to using RSS is that instead of going to each of your favorite web sites individually you can collect all the feeds of these sites (provided they make them available, not all site owners do) in one place and view them quickly.
Subscribing to SingleServeCoffeeReviews.com
When you subscribe to SingleServeCoffeeReeviews.com, the RSS of this blog., at the top right corner you will see an orange RSS link button. To subscribe to my feed all you do is copy and paste that link into feed reading software or a web based reader like Bloglines or Google Reader as I recommended above. If you use MyYahoo, you can also setup your feed.
The RSS feed link for this site looks like this - http://www.singleservecoffeereviews.com/journal/rss.xml - and if you click it you will get the XML output of this blog. You don’t have to be concerned with the output, just what to do with the link. The reader does the rest for you!
Note: I use a special third party service called FeedBurner that adds extra features to my feed output and most importantly it provides me with statistics on how many people subscribe to my blog.
All blogs will have a link which you can subscribe to. It might be called Atom, or RSS, or simply Syndicate, but they all do the same thing.
