An RSS feed lets your readers subscribe to your website or blog so they’re notified every time you publish new content. No more hoping people remember to come back. Below, we’ll show you how to find your existing feed or create one from scratch.
✨ Looking to create a podcast RSS feed instead? Here’s our step-by-step guide to creating a podcast RSS feed with RSS.com.
What Are the Benefits of Having an RSS Feed on Your Website?
RSS stands for really simple syndication, and it refers to a script you place on your website that your readers can subscribe to. When readers subscribe to your RSS feed, your latest content shows up in their feed reader automatically.
They don’t have to remember your URL or check back manually. For you, that means more return visitors, more consistent traffic, and a direct line to the people who care about your content.
Make your RSS feed easy to find by adding an RSS icon to your website’s header or footer.
Here’s How to Find or Create Your RSS Feed
If you are using WordPress simply add /feed/ to the end of your website’s domain name. Example: https://rss.com/blog/feed/
Another way involves knowing quite a bit of code. RSS feeds are created using XML code. In the first node, you declare the channel and title of the feed, links back to the website, a description of the feed, and its language. You can also include an image (like a logo) within the XML code. This part of the code remains static.
To ensure your updates from your website are added to your feed, you’ll need to create a new node. Within that node, you’ll add a new item to the top of the list each time you update, including the title of the item, the publish date, a link to the item’s webpage, and a CDATA description.
Related RSS Resources
- How to connect your podcast’s RSS feed to YouTube.
- Add your podcast RSS feed to Apple Podcasts.
- Add your podcast RSS feed to Spotify.
- Submit your podcast to TuneIn.
- Submit your podcast to iHeartRadio.
- Submit your podcast to Pandora.
- How to start a podcast.
- What Is a Podcast RSS Feed and How Do You Get One?
- Find your podcast RSS feed
Thinking About Starting a Podcast?
Your podcast needs its own RSS feed to get listed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and every other major directory.
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The History of the RSS Feed
In this video, our resident evangelist Joe Casabona shares a little bit of the history of the RSS feed, and the podcast RSS feed:
