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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes What is RSS? (Really Simple Syndication) RSS enables people to have the latest information delivered directly to them. This avoids having to visit sites every day looking for updates and instead allows you to see when websites have added new content that you are interested in! You can get the latest news, articles, photos, and videos all in one place and as soon as they are made available (published). RSS feeds were designed to be read by computers instead of people. So how do people read RSS feeds? By using an RSS reader. Have you ever come upon a small orange icon labeled RSS or XML? Have you tried clicking on one and ended up on a page filled with unreadable text? Well, that means you need an RSS reader! An RSS reader allows people to easily read any updates from a website that offers RSS feeds. What this means is that with your RSS reader you can subscribe to your favorite feeds and receive updates into your feed without having to visit any websites! There... 

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes When you create an RSS Feed it is recommended that you use the same search engine optimization tactics as you would with a normal html website. Here are some simple steps that you can take to help optimize an RSS Feed for the search engines: 1. The title must contain keywords relating to the content of your RSS Feed. It is important that the title is relevant to the content and does not mislead the reader. 2. Display an RSS Feed on your website. By displaying a feed on a website and providing fresh content, the search engines will spider the website regularly. The more often your website is updated with fresh content the more regularly the search engines will index your site. 3. Internal links. Within your feed make sure to always use the full path of any links. Other websites may syndicate the contents of your RSS Feed and if the links within the feed are not fully qualified then they will not work! Links should also launch a new browser thus keeping visitors...