Since they bring updates directly to the user, there is no need to go to multiple web sites, and the person can know almost the instant new information is posted. Also, the information can be tailored to the user’s likes so there is less need to wade through stuff that is not of interest. People can receive exactly what interests them from multiple websites in one convenient location.

With everything from podcasts, blogs, news, video and weather available, they can offer something for everyone and save time.

They are also a great tool for people working collaboratively on an online project. With RSS feeds, everyone can know exactly when something new is added and what each person is doing.

Feeds are easy to use and can be a great tool for most web users. However, for those who only visit a few sites regularly, like looking up sites and content or have constantly changing interests, they may not offer much value and not be worth using.

By automatically bring new content to users, RSS feeds are a convenience and time saver for most people though. They are likely to expand in use and features and become a service most all information sites will offer.

So what does that mean to you as an orthodontist? Well that means that if you put an RSS feed on your website, every time somebody comes to your website or more likely your blog and says “yeah, that RSS feed, I’ll click there, I’ll sign up for it, and I want to receive a notice every time you do something on that blog.”

No matter what it is, they’re going to get that information immediately in their reader. So, you put something on your blog, and it is updated on all of these RSS feeds.

Now, other thing that this feed does: It allows you to use and I’m going to go back to blog marketing, because it’s very easy to do with a blog a little piece of software on your blog. It’s called a plug in, but it’s an RSS feed plug in and it allows you to take your feed from your blog and let multiple different sites know whenever you do anything on your blog. It’s called a ping, and your RSS feed will ping these sites and let them know that you have made a change, or updated, or created a post, put on a video, whatever it is that you did on that site.

When that happens, you now have all of these areas that are looking at your site, and it’s all done electronically. But they’re now looking at your site to see what you’ve done and they’re saying “OK, this is a legitimate website, I’m going to back link to it.” And now you’re going to end up with all of these new back links to your website. So, RSS feeds are your friends.