These lists may include different topics for an extensive website, or list feeds from many websites that cover a similar topic. If you don't see the RSS icon or link, examine the page source of the web page.
Here's how to view the page source in Chrome and get an RSS link. Open a web browser and go to a web page. Right-click on the web page and choose View page source. Type RSS and press Enter. The instances of RSS are highlighted in the page source. Think of an RSS reader like your email inbox. Use the RSS reader to view the content, or to go to the website.
As you read each piece of new content, the RSS reader marks that content as read. There are a variety of RSS readers. If you prefer to read blog and news posts in a web browser, choose a free online RSS reader. A popular RSS reader is Feedly. It also works with third-party apps. Getting started with Feedly is easy. To subscribe to an RSS feed in Feedly on a desktop:. Select Follow. Select New Feed. Enter a descriptive name for the feed.
The popularity of RSS feeds has encouraged companies that offer personal home pages, such as Yahoo! If you have a MyYahoo! Whether you read at home or at work, you'll be receiving the same information. Most personal start pages offer only a limited number of viewable items per feed, though you may have the option to see more.
More than likely, these personalized pages will also group your feeds together by site. If you would prefer your feeds mixed together, for example with the newest items from all feeds on top, you will want to consider sites that serve as feed aggregators, such as Bloglines, Google Reader or Rojo.
These sites will also give you the option to group feeds together. If you want your national news in one folder and your gardening blogs in a separate folder, you can do that.
Of course, if it's features you want, you can use a software feed reader that will give you even more options. You can save some items for later, read articles offline, synchronize between different computers, the list goes on.
There are drawbacks: It's not as convenient as reading feeds right in your browser, and there may be a cost involved. But if you like the special features and you read a lot of RSS feeds, it may be worth looking into.
Do you have a Web site? It's easy to put a feed on the Web. On the next page, we'll take a look at what you'll need if you want to start publishing your own RSS feed. The content you can get via RSS feeds isn't just text: Depending on the kind of feed it is, you might get images, audio and video. When you subscribe to a podcast in iTunes, you're subscribing to a feed -- you're just doing it in a different environment.
And some Web-based e-mail readers will let you subscribe to a feed to get your mail. RSS isn't really that different from a normal Web site. In fact, they're the same in one respect: Both are simple text files on Web servers.
Unlike writing computer-programming code, most writing in a markup language like RDF involves putting tags around existing copy. For example, to make text bold in HTML, you would just enclose your sentence in a pair of tags: and.
The Web browser on your computer knows how to interpret these tags, because they're based on a set of industry-accepted standards. Since RSS is based on XML, however, the document contains information that tells the aggregator where to look for the standard upon which it's based. It's an extra step that happens on the back end and is invisible to you as you view an RSS feed. RSS tags tell your aggregator how to display the feed on your screen.
Internet Explorer is as easy as Firefox. If you want to add an RSS feed through Safari, by default it will open up your email client, e. Microsoft Outlook. This means that new content, such as blog posts, will appear in your inbox like a new email.
Of course when it comes to tablets and phones, there are dozens of options on multiple different operating systems. The ones below work well, but there are plenty of good alternatives. I love this app as it sends my phone a notification - like getting a text message - every time a news story is published. If you type its name into the App Store search engine, you can install it from there.
There's no corresponding blog post, podcast, or YouTube channel to follow in Feedly; the only way to get the content is to subscribe to the newsletter. The solution to this issue: Kill the Newsletter free. Kill the Newsletter generates an email address that you can use to subscribe to newsletters you want to receive.
Any newsletters that are sent to that email address are converted into an XML feed. To see those newsletters, just add the provided feed link to your RSS reader. After that, you'll be able to view the newsletters you want to read alongside the other content you follow in your RSS reader, and you don't have to worry about newsletters clogging up your email inbox. You can make as many feeds as you want using this method, but they'll only work for one account at a time.
Another option is to create a more advanced social media RSS feed using Zapier. Some employers post their open roles on Glassdoor, some post on Indeed, some use niche sites, and some only post jobs to their websites.
This makes looking for a new job a long process of navigating to multiple websites to look for new postings you might want to apply to. Some job search sites, like We Work Remotely , offer RSS feeds for each of their categories of jobs that you can subscribe to for updates.
Others, like Indeed and Glassdoor, let you subscribe to job alerts via email—but you don't necessarily have to use your personal email address. Instead, sign up for alerts using a Kill the Newsletter email address to get those email alerts in your RSS reader. You can create a feed for each of the sources you look at frequently to see new jobs that have been posted in your RSS reader.
Or, if you want all new jobs in a single feed, you can create an RSS superfeed using Zapier that combines multiple feeds together and delivers new job posts to you in one big feed. Take this even farther with our tutorial on how to automatically track job listings from multiple sources, like email, social media, team chat apps, and website. RSS is a great way to keep track of the content your favorite publishers are posting, but it also works well from the other side of the fence, too.
If you're a publisher, you can use an RSS feed for your blog, podcast, YouTube channel, social media profile, etc. For example, if your email newsletter is a list of your most recently published posts with titles, links, and brief descriptions, you can push those details via RSS to your email newsletter tool so you don't have to copy and paste those details in manually.
Then, you go in, add a subject line, select a list, and click Send to streamline your newsletter creation process. But even if your preferred email newsletter app doesn't offer this feature, you can build a Zap automated workflow by Zapier that connects your email tool to RSS by Zapier to automate the process.
Here's an example Zap for SendGrid :. Another way publishers can automate some of their work is by using RSS feed updates to automatically post new content to their social media profiles. With RSS by Zapier, you can connect your RSS feed to your social media profiles to automatically publish posts for your new content on your business or personal social media profiles:.
Maybe you frequently share industry articles with your coworkers or manage a social media account where you want to share interesting content from elsewhere. Try these workflows, which will automatically share what you're reading without needing to copy and paste. Add a digest step —available on our paid plans —to create and send out a digest of your favorite articles at a predetermined time.
You could pay a monthly subscription fee for a brand monitoring tool to track mentions of your brand across the web, or you can do the same thing using RSS feeds and a reader for free. When setting up your alert, select RSS feed in the Deliver to field. Once the alert is set up, you can grab the link you need to subscribe to the feed in your RSS reader.
Then, you can use Zapier to monitor brand mentions on several social media sites:. If you want a single source where you can see everything your competitors are doing, an RSS reader is a great option. Using the methods described above, you can subscribe to your competitors' blogs and email newsletters, see all of their social media posts, and even get Google Alerts for online mentions of their brands—and see each of these pieces of data inside of your RSS reader.
Sometimes we read for pleasure, and other times we pick up useful insights we may want to try later, like a new recipe or a productivity tip suggested in an article. Try these Zaps to turn those updates into tasks to accomplish later. New to Zapier? It's a tool that helps anyone connect apps and automate workflows—without any complicated code.
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