Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For Dummies
Chapter One
Using RSS to Spread Your Blog
In This Chapter
* Understanding just what a blog is
* Creating the blog and the feed
* Using your RSS reader
* Creating a blog using HTML
* Maintaining your blog
* Publicizing your blog with RSS
What's a blog, after all? Blog, short for Web log, is just a Web site with
a series of dated entries, with the most recent entry on top. Those
entries can contain any type of content you want. Blogs typically include
links to other sites and online articles with the blogger's reactions and comments,
but many blogs simply contain the blogger's own ramblings.
Unquestionably, the popularity of blogging has fueled the expansion of RSS
feeds. According to Technorati, a company that offers a search engine for
blogs in addition to market research services, about one-third of blogs have
RSS feeds. Some people who maintain blogs are publishing an RSS feed without
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