What is an RSS feed and What Can it Do for My Blog?

An RSS feed is identified by that little orange square RSS feed icon with a white dot in the corner and two curving white lines above it that youve probably seen on blogs all over the Internet. An acronym for Real Simple Syndication, RSS feeds are XML documents that are used to automatically publish frequently updated web content such as blogs and podcasts. RSS feeds effectively syndicate or push your content out to users who subscribe to your feed, which is simply the text of your recently published content.