web dev//SEO//RSS

Structured feeds (RSS or Atom, both XML) that publish recent entries and their URLs. A list of what is new that another program can read without crawling the whole site.

Structured feeds (RSS or Atom, both XML) that publish 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).

Against the sitemap: the sitemap lists everything that exists, the feed lists what changed recently. This site generates both at build time from the same content.

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