The Real Estate Tomato: What is RSS? What is Feedburner?

What is this icon? What's RSS? What is Feedburner?

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If you want a quick answer to the What is RSS question, just watch this great video below by clicking the link.

RSS Explained the In Plain English - Video

It is a direct link to FeedBurner.com's Real Estate Tomato page offering a one-click way for you to have our posts fed to your preferred blog news feed provider. I personally use iGoogle for all my post updates from dozens of blogs, but Feedburner works with all services. Add me to your feed by clicking the icon.

In English. You tell Feedburner your blog’s web address (URL) and it creates a feed for you to advertise on your site. It also allows people to subscribe to your feed, and helps you manage the way that feed is received by your subscribers.

What RSS Feed Readers Do You Recommend?

iGoogle
MyYahoo
Bloglines
MyAOL
NewsGator
NetVibes
Wizz Reader for Firefox
And many, many more…

What Happens When I Subscribe Via Email?

First,
You will need to approve the subscription to the feed by responding to the email that was just sent to your inbox.

Secondly,
You will begin to receive either:
Headlines, Excerpts, or Entire Posts in the form of a standard email.
Emails will arrive at a rate dependent on:
Frequency of blog posts and frequency of RSS delivery (normally same day).

Thirdly,
You always have the option to unsubscribe or change the subscription to a RSS News Reader so as to keep the articles out of your already cluttered inbox.

Feedburner.com explains it all right here

Why is it on the RealEstateTomato.com?
By clicking on the icon and adding this blog as one of your blog feeds, you will be able to browse through the Real Estate Tomato's headlines, ensuring you never miss an article.

The BBC clearly states this about RSS (Rich Site Summary):

RSS allows you to see when sites from all over the internet have added new content. You can get the latest headlines and articles (or even audio files, photographs or video) in one place, as soon as they are published, without having to remember to visit each site every day.

It takes the hassle out of staying up-to-date, by showing you the very latest information that you are interested in.

Feedburner makes it easy to subscribe without revealing your email address.