web dev//SEO//RSS

An RSS or Atom feed is a structured XML file that publishes recent entries and their URLs, a list of what is new that another program can read without crawling the whole site.

An RSS or Atom feed is a structured XML file that publishes recent entries and their URLs, a list of what is new that another program can read without crawling the whole site.

A feed is discovery for the impatient: a reader, an aggregator or a crawler polls one file and learns the latest posts, with titles, dates and summaries, instead of re-fetching every page (discovery). A sitemap is the whole inventory and a feed the last delivery slip: crawlers use the first to find pages no link leads to and the second to learn what arrived since yesterday.

This site generates its feed and its sitemap at build time from the same content.

RSS predates social platforms and outlived several of them; podcasts still run entirely on RSS.