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# RSS Advantages

RSS is taking off so quickly because people are liking it. RSS is easy to use and it has advantages for a publisher as well as for a subscriber. Here we have listed out few advantages of RSS for subscribers as well as for publishers.

## RSS Advantages for Subscribers:

RSS subscribers are the people who subscribe to read a published feed. Here are some of the advantages of RSS feeds for subscribers.

- All News at one Place: You can subscribe to multiple news groups and then you can customize your reader to have all news on a single page. It will save you a lot of time.

- News when you want it: Rather than waiting for an e-mail, you go to your RSS reader when you want to read a news. Furthermore, RSS feeds display more quickly than information on Web sites, and you can read them offline if you prefer.

- Get only the news you want: RSS feed comes in the form of headlines and a brief description so you can easily scan the headlines and click only those stories that interest you.

- Freedom from e-mail overload: You are not going to get any email for any news or blog update. You just go to your reader and you will find updated news or blog automatically whenever there is a change on RSS server.

- Easy republishing: You may be both a subscriber and a publisher. For example, you may have a Web site that collects news from various other sites and then republishes it. RSS allows you to easily capture that news and display it on your site.

## RSS Advantages for Publishers:

RSS publishers are the people who publish their content through RSS feed. I would suggest you to use RSS if you want to get your message out and easily and if you want people to see what you publish, and you want your news to bring people back to your site.

Here are some of the advantages of RSS if you publish on the Web:

- Easier publishing: RSS is really simple publishing. You don't have to maintain a database of subscribers to send your information to them, instead they will access your feed using a reader and will get updated content automatically.

- A simpler writing process: If you have a new content on your Web site, you need only write a RSS feed in the form of titles and short descriptions, and link back to your site.

- An improved relationship with your subscribers: Because people subscribe from their side, they don't feel as if you are pushing your content on them.

- The assurance of reaching your subscribers: RSS is not subject to spam filters, your subscribers get the feeds which they subscribe to and nothing more.

- Links back to your site: RSS feeds always include links back to a Web site. This will increase lot of traffic towards your website.

- Relevance and timeliness: Your subscribers always have the latest information from your site.

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