Video 9 - What RSS Is And Why You Need It

by Gideon Shalwick on January 23, 2008 · 17 comments

Inside this video, discover what the mysterious letters “rss” means and learn how it can make you super effective on the information highway…

Enjoy!

Gideon Shalwick

Tagged as: blog, blogger, blogging, rss, wordpress

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Megan McCarthy February 11, 2008 at 8:13 am: Thank you Yaro and Gideon for such a great site and fantastic videos. You are an inspiration! These are just what I needed, as I am still on blogger and have domains ready and waiting to go for my new wordpress blogs - but still learning and finding the best plugins, creating my own themes with some great blog design software (rapidnichewebsites), and learning my way around hosting, FTP and cPanel - eek!

So many other videos out there are too basic and don’t show the whys and ins and outs, leaving a lot to still learn.

But your site is wonderful. Easy to navigate, lovely and clean on the eye, and lots of options. The videos are great quality and full of great info - I think I will have a look at Blip.tv too now
All the best with this (I posted a comment on your Blog Traffic School Forum Yaro - in the guestbook about this - but I also want to thank Gideon too!)

Kind Regards
Megan
Adelaide, South Australia
admin February 11, 2008 at 8:15 pm: Hi Megan

Thank you for your very kind comments. I am so glad that you are finding the videos so helpful.

It’s been a great project and we hope to continue making some great and helpful videos for our viewers.

Kind regards

Gideon Shalwick
Robert Kennedy April 4, 2008 at 12:57 pm: Absolutely brilliant videos! RSS feeds are handy for keeping update on your favorite authors, bloggers, and websites. I like using them to update my websites automatically whenever I write a new post on my blog.

Dirty little secret:

You can also use RSS feeds in conjunction with Google Reader to “spy” on your competiors; Whenever they come out with a new product you will know. RSS is a great way to stay updated to news in your industry.

Thanks again Yaro,

Rob
Gideon Shalwick April 4, 2008 at 1:50 pm: Hi Robert

Thanks! We spent a crazy amount of time and money on these videos, and it’s great to hear that people are enjoying them and finding them useful.

Thanks also for the “dirty little secret”! LOL! You sure seem to know a lot about this stuff.

Keep up the good work!

Gideon Shalwick
http://GetYourVideoOnline.com
(The guy who created the videos for BecomeABlogger.com)
Sarv007 June 29, 2008 at 1:08 am: my becomeablogger classes are completed hooray!
Gideon Shalwick July 15, 2008 at 2:49 am: Hi Sarv007

Congratulations!

It’s awesome to see that you’ve made it through!

I had a quick look at your blog. Thank you very much for your kind endorsement. It’s very much appreciated!

Kind regards and all the best for your blogging efforts.

Gideon Shalwick
http://www.GetYourVideoOnline.com
Alfredas July 30, 2008 at 1:46 am: Thank you very very very much! These videos was very helpful because I am new in blogging and all terminology of the web seems as a catastrophe for me. But your videos helped to make sense of many thinks. Sorry for my bad English. The Best Regards from Lithuania!
Gideon Shalwick July 30, 2008 at 1:51 am: Hi Alfredas

You are very very very welcome
So glad the videos are helpful to you. Let me know how you get on ok?

Regards

Gideon Shalwick
irene August 10, 2008 at 2:05 am: Hi Yaro,

Thank you for your free video tutorials.

Somehow I have been watching the tutorials
for the last few days, but while I was watching,
the videos, it always tend to stop in the midst of
my watching or else it just take a long time for
me to complete watching a single video.
I have done what I was told by looking at your
“Video Not Working’.

Until now, I am still unable to enjoy your free
tutorials. Perhaps you could advise me about it.

I am really looking forward to your free tutorials.
(FYI I’m stillunable to view it in complete ).

Thank you!

Regards,
irene
Gideon Shalwick August 13, 2008 at 2:46 pm: Hi Irene

I’ve just checked the video, and I found the same problem.

Here’s how I fixed it:

1. I cleaned out my internet cache including the cookies
2. And then I refreshed the page

After I did this, the video seemed to play fine again.

I think it could have something to do with the video sharing service that we are using.

In any case, give that a go, and see if it works for you.

Let me know if you have any other problems ok?

Gideon
Daria June 27, 2009 at 2:36 pm: I sooo expected to find out how to intsall an rss feed to my blog thru this video. I didn’t. The information *in* the video is great, but I didn’t find what I needed.

Gideon Shalwick Reply:
June 28th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Hey Daria

Have you watched video 10 yet?

Cos that shows you how to install an rss feed to your blog.

I need to update the video slightly because Google has bought Feedburner, and there are a few small changes with the signup process.

But the overall principals should stay pretty much the same.

All the best!

Gideon Shalwick
Become A Blogger
Linda G. Cox September 16, 2009 at 10:51 am: I thank you so much!! You have an enjoyable voice and an easy-to-follow way of describing the process! I have so much to learn! But with your help, I feel it is all possible!
j February 25, 2010 at 10:03 pm: Hi Gideon.

Very informative video.
A little question please, how do I
unsubscribe from the RSS feed?

Thanks,

J
Joerg August 13, 2010 at 2:33 am: Hi Gideon,
I have been avoiding RSS like the plague for years. The reason being: It wasn’t obvious to me what this “new stuff” is all about and why I would want to use it.I had the sites bookmarked that I used most and that was all I needed.
With your explanation it has become a lot clearer. Thank you for producing such outstanding tutorials!
What I didn’t see mentioned is how my RSS feeds can help my website(s) get external links. Might be interesting for others too.
Thanks again and all the best!
Brenda Shaylor August 27, 2010 at 7:23 pm: Thankyou very much for this extremely easy to understand and apply video on RSS.I stumbled across it via an ad I clicked and it has answered my questions on RSS.I was wondering if i would ever find a simple explanation and I have.I am going back to look at more of your videos because you make everything very simple to follow and understand.Thankyou again.