Blogger.com's RSS and Atom Feed

RSS and Arom Feed are XML files that has the list of your published blog posts. In Blogger.com, your blog feeds both RSS and Atom are updated automatically when you post an article. Here is Wikipedia's description of the RSS and Atom feeds:

RSS (formally "RDF Site Summary", known colloquially as "Really Simple Syndication") is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. An RSS document, which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel", contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that's easier than checking them manually.

RSS content can be read using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader" or an "aggregator". The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed's link into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new content, downloading any updates that it finds.

For details visit Wikepedia - RSS.

The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards. The Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds, while the Atom Publishing Protocol (referred to as AtomPub for short) is a simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web resources.

Web feeds allow software programs to check for updates published on a web site. To provide a web feed, a site owner may use specialized software (such as a content management system) that publishes a list (or "feed") of recent articles or content in a standardized, machine-readable format. The feed can then be downloaded by web sites that syndicate content from the feed, or by feed reader programs that allow Internet users to subscribe to feeds and view their content.

A feed contains entries, which may be headlines, full-text articles, excerpts, summaries, and/or links to content on a web site, along with various metadata.

For details, visit Wikipedia-Atom.

Blogger.com has its own RSS and Atom feeds

• Blogger.com RSS feed: http://[blogname].blogspot.com/rss.xml
  (example: http://blogging-startup-make-money.blogspot.com/rss.xml - this is the RSS feed of this blog)
  
• Blogger.com Atom feed: http://[blogname].blogspot.com/atom.xml (example: http://blogging-startup-make-money.blogspot.com/atom.xml - this is the Atom feed of this blog)
  

Why are Blogger.com RSS feed and Atom feed are important?

As Wikepedia said, RSS is a "real simple syndication". Meaning, we can use this web feed to get reader to subscribe to your blog. In my future articles, I will discussed simple ways to go about it. So stick with me as I try to tackle them in details and comprehensible. If you are a beginner, you will surely learn something from here. Otherwise, you might also get an idea or two so once I get my Feedburner account running, you better subscribe with my blog.

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