RSS Explained From Both Personal and Commercial Perspective

It is well known that RSS is just short for Really Simple Syndication, here syndication means creating content and making it more accessible in several different avenues.

Basically there are two ways to use it: push and pull(in the terminology, feeds and aggregations). Content owners push content by generating and publishing feeds, meanwhile, content consumers (readers, subscribers) pull these contents by subscribing to these feeds so as to aggregate these contents for them.

Depending on the purposes to consume the contents, Really Simple Syndication delivers contents (called feeds) to either end-users (personal usage) or content syndication sites (commercial or marketing usages).

For individual end-users, they are interested in certain websites thus subscribe to feeds in order to receive constant updates without having to go to the sites individually.

For content syndication sites, they use Really Simple Syndication to syndicate and aggregate content from other websites and, as an upgrade to target their most focused content needs, create feeds based on keywords and phrases, and then publish them again to spread the words.

Also for content syndication sites which use RSS as an internet marketing tool, it itself works as a content delivery channel thus a promotional/visibility tool: it wraps up the contents in xml format, then gets the content to feeds subscribers without fail, enabling to communicate with content providers and consumers.

In summary, the reason why RSS, Really Simple Syndication in short, is getting popular so quickly is because it satisfies both personal and commercial customers: providing a convenient avenue for end-users, and a powerful marketing tool for business users.

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