Create an RSS Feed

By creating an RSS feed to your blog you can essentially syndicate
your blog, much like comics and television shows syndicate their
content.

What is an RSS feed? RSS stands for “Rich Site Summary” or “Really
Simple Syndication” or “RDF Site Summary” depending on the version
that is being used. RSS is essentially a way to stream up to the
minute news and updates on your blog around the world via the
internet.


Readers of RSS streams use a content reader program called a feed
reader or aggregator. These can be downloaded free of charge online
with the most popular ones being News Gator or Bloglines.


The feed reader, or aggregator, checks websites where the user has
subscribed to see if there is any new and updated information and if
the site has been updated then the feed reader will copy that new
information so that the reader can read it. The purpose of the
aggregators is so that the reader does not have to keep checking a
site to see if it has been updated, the reader, via the RSS feed, does it
for them.


Adding RSS feeds to a Blogger blog is a very simple thing to do.
Simply go to the Blogger Dashboard, then to Settings -> Site Feed and
enter in whether you want full post syndication or only a short bit of
your post to syndicate. You can then add a syndication button to the
front page of your blog and that is all you have to do. By doing these
simple steps your visitors can subscribe to your RSS feed and will
know when your page has been updated!


For a monetized blog it is best to leave the syndication to the short
syndication option. This shows your readers that your site is updated,
but they will still have to visit your site to read your entire messages.

This insures that they will be seeing your Google AdSense ads and
possibly clicking on them. You want to tease them with the RSS feed
information to ensure they come to your blog and read the rest of the
message.