5 Exotic Uses of an RSS Feed to Your Blog

 The web is always evolving by the exotic way we use it to dig content from blogs, websites etc. RSS (Real Simple Syndication) is one of the greatest tools ever in invented in content curation, content marketing or mining. One may ask “What is this RSS am seeing on every Blog and what is it used for?” The answer will be; An RSS feed is a collection of web formats that are used to syndicate updated content inform of blog entries, articles, news etc.

RSS feed is a must important feature of the blog not for formality but one simple technique to publish content to blog followers. Here I explain the 5 exotic uses of the RSS feed to your web log and why it’s such an important feature.

1)    Subscribe to the Latest Post

RSS feeds are used on blogs so that blog followers can subscribe for latest updates via email using Google Feed Burner or that browser technique… Now blog posts will be syndicated into emails dropped into the followers’ (subscribers) inbox or the browser technique…

2)   Recent Posts

The recent posts plug-in or widget on blogs use the RSS feed technology. Recent posts are such an important feature on the blog because they notify visitors with what’s new in terms of blog posts. RSS feeds help the blogger to syndicate most recent post in such an exotic way by providing link post titles for new blog entries to followers and readers.

3)   Notify about Latest Post, News, Articles

This more less the same as number one (1). This is one significant reason as to why I call the RSS feed the exotic technique of finding content on the web. RSS feeds are use to help in alerting and informing you or any blog follower about either latest posts or news or articles of your favorite blog through emails and feed readers. It will be a disaster if your content is killer yet you luck the RSS feed button for visitors to subscribe to your blog updates published rather than visiting your blog regularly.

4)   Following Blog Comments

If any one of you has heard of something like Comment RSS or Subscribe to Comment via RSS. The power of the RSS feed takes the advantage of comments that also play an important role on your web logs. Comment RSS feeds help you to know who is commenting on which post and on what blog. It helps to show you whose comments are more vibrant than others.

5)   Extract and Curate Content

RSS feed are if much importance to the blog because the blog followers can use the RSS feed url or link to systematically pull out content and distribute it on other several web platforms, websites and social networks. If your blog influences a certain niche industry, one can extract the RSS feed URL and use it to share content through things like auto tweeted posts.

RSS (feed) play an important role on your blog and it shouldn’t be taken for granted. Its usage on your blog will help bind to bind your web log with followers through RSS subscriptions, notifications, of new content, recent posts etc. That’s it for now, feel free to Add-on, comment and criticize where possible. Thank You.