What is Blog Feed?

Feed or in general term called as RSS feed had being used by bloggers in order to get popular in the net. More popular you are in the net, more traffic you have in your blog. It's make sense, isn't it? Here I try to bring you about feed definitions that I find from the net. I hope this is useful for you and bring to you the benefit of using feed.

These are some definitions about feed and RSS:

"A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an Internet aggregator. A web feed is also sometimes referred to as a syndicated feed."
[source & read more here: wikipedia.org]

"RSS (formally "RDF Site Summary", known colloquially as "Really Simple Syndication") is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. An RSS document, which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel", contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that's easier than checking them manually."
[source & read more here: wikipedia.org]

"RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication and Rich Site Summary. RSS is an XML-based format for content distribution. Webmasters create an RSS file containing headlines and descriptions of specific information. While the majority of RSS feeds currently contain news headlines or breaking information the long term uses of RSS are broad."
[source & read more here: rss-specification.com]

After we read about feed definition above, It is important for us to update our blog everyday, poorly at least once a week. How we build our blog feed so the others can read our updated blog? For this question, I suggest you to use FeedBurner as I write in my previous post. Why? Because It is easy to be done and it has many features that useful for publishing our blog. One of those features is we can build "Headline Animator" as that appear on top of this blog. It is interesting, isn't it?

Here is the snapshot of my "Headline Animator":

More than that, you can place it ("Headline Animator") to your personal profile in MySpace.com, Friendster.com, Facebook.com, Perfspot.com and others.

Boost Your Blog Traffic with FeedBurner

What is FeedBurner? Why should we use FeedBurner?

Before we talk about FeedBurner, it's good idea if we talk first about what can we do with FeedBurner?

With FeedBurner, as a blogger we can promote our blog contents, build & measure audience and make money finally.

This is what FeedBurner say about their service:

"FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. Our Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web."

"FeedBurner also offers the largest feed and blog advertising network that brings together an unprecedented caliber of content aggregated from the world’s most recognized media companies (e.g. Wall Street Journal Online, Wired News, Ziff Davis), A-list bloggers and blog networks and individual publishers from around the world."

This is a sketch how FeedBurner works:

and These are some facts of FeedBurner from their "Fast Fact and Stats":

• According to Nielsen/NetRatings, FeedBurner is growing faster than MySpace and Digg with 385% traffic growth.
• Total feeds: 1,209,996
• Number of publishers: 681,932
• Number of podcast and videocast feeds: 168,966
• Number of subscribers across all FeedBurner feeds: Too many to fit on this page. Email us for the most recent stats and pretty graphs.
• Percent of FeedBurner employees using Macs: 39%, PCs: 58%, Other: 3%.
• Number of made-up words on this site: 4

It's undoubtedly that FeedBurner become new trend for blogger to be popular. Get more understanding and benefit about FeedBurner by Register to FeedBurner for FREE.

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