---
title: "Creating RSS feed for website"  
description: "RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or it's sometimes referred to as Rich Site Summary.  It's an XML-based content format for distributing news,"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2012-06-13  
updated: 2014-09-18  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/blog/314/creating-rss-feed-for-website  
category: "xml"  
tags: ["xml"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

---

# Creating RSS feed for website

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or it's sometimes [referred to as](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39930/at-the-turn-of-the-century-widespread-panic-occurred-that-at-midnight-all-computers-would-reset-to-zero-and-life-as-we-knew-it-would-cease-to-exist-what-was-this-doomsday-theory-commonly-referred-to-as) Rich Site Summary. It's an XML-based content format for distributing [news](https://www.mindstick.com/developersection/news), headlines, content, etc.\

Most popular sites news sites and [blogs](https://www.mindstick.com/developersection/blog) provide RSS feeds for you to subscribe to. All you need is a feed reader to view its contents. You can also create feeds for your own website so [your audience](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96461/what-s-another-way-to-show-you-pins-to-your-audience-without-always-linking-to-pinterest) can subscribe to them. If you update [your content](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/87465/how-to-enhance-your-content-visibility-10-tips) frequently and promote the feed effectively, it can help drive more steady [traffic to your](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12865/infographic-drive-traffic-to-your-site-in-2018-10-hints) website.

There is some specific format from which you can create RSS feed. Let’s take a simple example, how to create RSS feeds for website.

Here I’m just creating a dynamic RSS page for [Articles](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12872/how-to-write-articles-of-50-and-more-a-day-quick-and-easy), Blogs and Forums etc. With the help of this a user can bookmark either article sections, blogs section or forums sections.

To create a RSS feeds you start off the RSS file as follows:

```
<xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8">

<rss version="2.0">

<channel>
```

The first two lines specify the XML and RSS version as you can see. The third line opens a ‘**channel**’ tag. This is what would contain all the information for your channel or website. Add these three lines as they are.

```
<title>Title of RSS Feed</title>

<link>Web link of title</link>

<description>Description about Title</description>RSS Page format:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Title of RSS Feed</title> <link>Web link of title</link> <description>Description about Title</description><item>Here you will mention your items title, link and description etc. </item></channel></rss>
```

Now save this file .rss [extension](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/22/extension-method) and use in [your website](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12990/ssl-certificate-why-you-need-one-for-your-website) pages. This is the complete description on creating RSS feed for website. I hope this article will help you in creating your RSS feeds.

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