Feeds, also known as RSS feeds, Atom feeds, XML feeds, syndicated content, or web feeds, contain frequently updated content published by a website. They are usually used for news and blog websites, but are also used for distributing other types of digital content, including pictures, audio files, or video.

The Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox web browsers can discover and display feeds as you visit websites. You can also subscribe to feeds to automatically check for and download updates that you can view later with these web browsers or a seperate feed reader.

The most popular uses for feed readers are to subscribe to news sites such as CNN, Sun-Sentinel, or Miami Herald. Most blogs will offer a RSS or ATOM feed of their content. Some websites that change frequently will offer an RSS feed of these changes. R-World.com does this with the news section of the website.

There are many tools besides aggregators available that can utalize RSS feeds. One example is FeedBlitz which allows you to recieve RSS feed updates by email.

How does R-World.com use RSS Feeds?

This website uses RSS feeds to keep members up to date with the latest news. We scan the local, state, and national news outlets for news stories we feel are relevant to our membership. We publish this information in 3 ways, we send a weekly digest of the most important of this news, we publish it to the R-World.com homepage, and we provide an RSS Feed of what we publish to the website.

How to utilize RSS Feeds on your website

If you currently maintain a blog, you probably already offer an RSS or ATOM feed. This allows people who visit your blog to subscribe to your feed and keep current with your writings without having to come back to visit your site. Encourage your readers to do so, especially any mid to long term prospects as this will keep you and your services in the back of their mind. The best way to get people to subscribe to your feed to to write useful content for the reader.

While posting your MLS listings to a blog is not an effective way of publishing your MLS listings, as they are all on thousands of other websites on the internet, if you DO have a secondary MLS blog, format it in a way that you can have different RSS feeds for the different listing categories. This way people can subscribe to a subsection of listings that are interesting to them. As you add properties to your MLS blog, your subscribers will get updates in their feed reader.