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Tuesday, February 13

Feeding Your Blog

Blogging is all about sharing; and sharing requires distribution, and this is where feeds come in! Feeds are publishing formats that allow viewers to receive the latest updates from their favourite blogs, websites or online publishers. Generally, they display a headline, short description and links to an article/content.

The two most common feed types are Atom and RSS. For those that like to know all the technical elements, and understand the details behind the process, then check out Answers or Wikipedia for more information about these feed formats. Simply, they are the best way in which to make your blog content available to a wide audience, who will be able to view your updates as, and when, they are made!

If you're blogging from Blogger, MySpace, Facebook or many of the other free blogging sites out there, then feeding your blog is usually done automatically, as these sites provide either / both RSS and Atom feeds with your blog. Find out how feeding your blog works in the FAQ, or the Help section at your preferred blogging site.

Here are a few symbols synonymous with website or blog feeds - you can even create your own!

Common RSS Feed chicklets

Find out everything you still want to know about RSS feeds, applications, XML and readers from RSS Specifications.
Once you have set-up your blog and your feed use Easy Blog Ping to keep the most popular blog search engines up to date with your musings! Finally, grab yourself a free FeedReader from the wide selection available online and start discovering feeds for yourself!
With feeding and Easy Blog Ping - keeping up with the online world, and your competition, has never been easier.