Monday, October 5, 2009

Putting Blogger’s RSS Feed into Your Webpage in 3 Steps

Did you know that your Blogger blog already has an RSS feed upon creation? Not many people know, and if they are aware, most don’t have the first clue how to put it into their webpage. Well, that problem is about to be resolved.

RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and was designed to provide a family of formats to publish frequently updated social media content (i.e. Blog, Audio, and Video) to a RSS Reader. Since RSS uses XML 1.0, most new browsers like Internet Explorer 8 already have a RSS Reader built into the web browser, making subscribing to RSS Feeds even easier than it has ever been.

Now, if you want to make a custom RSS feed yourself, you can find many sites like Harvard Law’s RSS 2.0 Specification Website that will guide you through the process of creating your own feed. However, if you have created a blog through Google’s Blogger, and want to see it in a RSS feed on your website in a matter of minutes, then read on, and learn for yourself, as I did, how not scary, and relatively easy it can be.