WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

RSS is one of the Web 2.0 technologies most widely used and yet, least understood. To add to confusion RSS, while providing a similar functionality can mean different things. Dan Libby developed original RSS (RDF Site Summary RSS 0.9) for Netscape and after a couple of months, produced a simpler and easier-to-use version called Rich Site Summary or RSS 0.91. Later in 2005, Microsoft developed Really Simple Syndication in relation to its Simple Sharing Extensions.

Today, RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’, and it has the following 7 existing formats or versions: 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, 2.0 and lets not forget the Atom format created to address all the short comings and incompatibilities of the multiple RSS versions. But we will make this simple…

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This is Part 2 of the short series on RSS and expands on information provided in my first post “What Is RSS And How You “Eat” It“. But this time I want to discuss details that are more relevant to bloggers and how you can use RSS technology to promote your blogs.

In this post I will cover 3 specific areas:

• Optimizing your RSS feed
• Announcing your RSS feed
• Promoting your RSS feed

So dive in for details…

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Part 3 of the mini-series of posts dedicated to RSS technology and its benefits will build upon information shared in 2 previous posts:

• What is RSS and How You “Feed” It
• What Is RSS And How You “Eat” It

… and in it I will not beat around the bush and want to concentrate directly on what is “near and dear” to every blogger - monetizing the RSS feed without loosing integrity of the blog and annoying our most precious readers - our loyal subscribers!

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DEFINITION: RSS is an XML-based vocabulary that specifies a means of describing news or other Web content that is available for “feeding” (distribution or syndication) from an online publisher to Web users.

SIMPLER DEFINITION: RSS represent one of the technologies via which websites and blogs can provide you with frequently updated content directly. Content can include but not limited to: blog entries, news, podcasts. RSS could be a full feed or just a summary and once subscribed – it is delivered directly to your Reader.

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