How Do RSS Feeds Work?

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RSS feeds are like beacons, displaying updates from your favorite websites via your preferred RSS feed reader and thereby saving you the effort of visiting the website!

RSS: A Beacon for Your Website

RSS feeds provide a means of communicating updates to your website content with users, without them having to open your site in their browser.
This is done by means of a feed reader (such as Google Reader), typically an email client or web service, but it can also be a dedicated aggregator app on your computer or mobile device.
The feed acts as a sort of beacon for your website – whenever your site is updated, the RSS feed will update to reflect this change.  more...