What is RSS?
Say you browse through dealnews each day just to see what’s new. Wouldn’t you rather have the latest deals delivered? RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is used by websites to share and distribute their latest content. Websites create a list — a feed — of the contents on their site. The feed contains the latest article headlines, summaries and links back to full-text articles on their website.
Readers can subscribe to the feed, browse the headlines and summaries and determine which deals they want to read in more detail. RSS automatically tells you when something new has been posted enabling to see the latest information as it is released. Best of all, RSS subscriptions are completely anonymous.
dealnews offers a list of preconfigured RSS feeds, but you will also find RSS links throughout the site providing links to feeds for categories and to any custom alerts.
To use RSS you need to:
- Choose an RSS reader
- Subscribe to an RSS feed
- Read and enjoy!
1. Choose an RSS reader
RSS readers can either be a Standalone application or Plug-in. Standalone readers are applications that run in the background on your desktop and automatically update your subscribed feeds. Plug-in readers work within an existing application such as Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Firefox and Internet Explorer.
2. Subscribe to an RSS feed
Most RSS readers will come with a collection of RSS feeds organized by topic such as News, Health, Finance, etc. More than likely you will want to subscribe to other feeds that are of interest to you.
To know if a website or blog offers an RSS Feed, look for the RSS subscribe button or link, which can be:
- The classic RSS button:
- The XML button: XML
- A simple list of links: RSS, Atom, MyYahoo, Bloglines, etc.
- Your selected RSS Reader’s button
Most RSS readers support multiple ways to subscribe to an RSS feed:
Click to Subscribe
When you see a feed you’re interested in, simply click on the subscribe button or link and follow the prompts offered by your RSS reader to complete the subscription.Drag and Drop to Subscribe
Another simple way to subscribe is by dragging the subscribe button or link into the RSS Reader. You will be instantly subscribed to that feed.Manually Add Feeds
If you know the URL of the feed you want to subscribe to, most RSS Readers will off you the option to add it manually.
3. Read and Enjoy!
Once you have subscribed to the RSS feeds you want, your RSS reader will pull updated news spam free from the publisher. Most feed readers present you with easy-to-browse headlines and short summaries of the latest information, including links that will take you directly to the full article. You can see what’s new on dozens of sites, and read only the ones that interest you.
