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Who can benefit from RSS

The answer to this question is that RSS is for everyone. It is really very simple. To illustrate let's look at the following two scenarios.

Case 1: You have a website and you want to offer content written by industry experts. You want the articles to be "fresh". You are not interested in manually finding and linking to new articles every day. So what do you do?

Case 2: You have a website that you frequently update with "fresh" new articles and information. You want to make the articles available to other web publishers. But you are not interested in submitting articles across 10 article database sites across the Internet. Is there a better way?

Not surprisingly, the answer to both scenarios is RSS.

In the first example you would locate a website that offers an RSS feed you like, The next step is to use an RSS Reader or Aggregator to display information from your chosen "content provider". When they update their feed - your site will automatically display the new information.

In the second example you would be the one creating the RSS feed. Now other websites can display your information on their site.

Enough talk about theory and benefits - let's get to work and create our own RSS feed.

Next step: How to create a RSS feed.