What is RSS?
Real Simple Syndication (RSS) is a FREE way for us to send you information and advice, (such as Brian’s weekly Property Market Blog) straight to your computer. Simply, it lets you know we have added new content to the website .
Rather than browse or search www.PropertyProfit.co.nz for new content related to a specific topic or region, you can subscribe to the related RSS feed and we will send the news to you!
When content on www.PropertyProfit.co.nz is updated, it will be sent straight to your RSS reader and available for you to view at your leisure. RSS feeds contain a headline, summary and a link back to the full story on the website.
RSS is simple, free and only takes a few minutes to set up.
You can get an RSS feed of your favourite content wherever you see the orange RSS icon light up on your browser if you have a reader installed.
How do I use RSS?
It's easy.
The first thing you need is an RSS reader. This is software that checks your feeds and lets you read new content as its added. There are some good RSS readers available and they do not take long to access.
Generally, RSS readers come in two kinds;
1, You can download a dedicated desktop reader. This allows you to store it on your main computer. Or,
2, You can set up a browser-based news reader. This allows you to catch up with your feeds from any computer, and it does not need a software download.
If you would like more information, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia, has links to more than a hundred different RSS readers in its list of news aggregators. All you have to do is go to an RSS reader and follow the instructions on set-up.
Below are the names of some of the more common RSS readers.
Common web-based readers include:
Bloglines
My Yahoo!
Google Reader
Rojo
Newsgator (Web-based package)
Common readers based on a software download include:
Newsgator (Software-based package)
FeedReader
FeedDemon
RSSBandit
NewzCrawler
NetNewsWire
How do I get a PropertyProfit RSS feed?
Once you have a reader, you can start deciding what PropertyProfot content you want to receive. For instance, you may want to receive a specific region’s PropertyProfit news and opinion. There are many RSS feeds of PropertyProfit content you can decide to receive.
There are several easy ways you can set up your PropertyProfit RSS feed.
One way is to go to a page you like and look for the orange RSS icon.
Click on it. If you have Internet Explorer 7.0 or Firefox 1.0 and above, it will automatically add the feed to your reader.
If you have an earlier version of Internet Explorer, you will be taken to a new page. Cut and paste the url of that page into your feed reader. Your reader will tell you how to save it. You are now enabled for that feed.
There is another way to access our RSS feeds. Look for the link 'View RSS feeds'. It takes you to a page with all the different feeds you can receive. Click on which feed you want, or copy the address into your RSS reader.
Once enabled, you will start being sent any new content from that feed.
