Imagine if there was a way to put all of your favorite news sources onto one page so that you wouldn’t have to visit each individual news source. Think of the time you would the save. What a convenience!

 Last week, I spent some time researching the capabilities of RSS, what it is and how it can help my site. I am still learning about RSS, but my understanding is that it is simply a way for web readers to subscribe to a website’s content.

Why might this be useful? Here is a perfect example. Adventures In Hosting is split into two sections, a web hosting for beginners section and a news section for the A2 Web Hosting Affiliate Program. Say you are a member of the affiliate program and you want to have the most up to date news regarding the affiliate program http://www.a2hosting.com/services/affiliate-program. Instead of sitting on this blog and all day, hitting the refresh button, you could just subscribe to Adventures In Hosting’s RSS feed. How?

I would suggest using Google Homepage. Everyone has heard of Google. But what is Google Homepage? Google Homepage is a place for you to put all of your favorite news sources (including Adventures In Hosting) into one place with the help of RSS. For example, my Google homepage has the weather forecast, local news and local sports information. I can get a wealth of information .

To subscribe to Adventures In Hosting’s RSS feed, there are 3 locations on this blog that will allow you to do so. They are the blue button in the web browser bar, as well as the orange button and Add to Google below Archives in the left-navigation bar. I would simply click the Add to Google button which will prompt you to select “Add to Google homepage”. This is where you will need to sign up for a free Google email address or sign in if you already have a Google email address.

You don’t have to use Google Homepage, Yahoo has a similar page, as well as some other similar services. I prefer Google Homepage because I feel as though Google has the best search engine and I love having all of my favorite news sources all in one place. It really saves time not having to visit each individual page.