How do visitors stay informed?
If visitors to your Web site want to monitor your feed, they click on the link and add it to their Web browser, mail program or stand-alone feed reader. The method varies from one reader to the next; with some, you must copy and paste the feed link into a separate window. The feed reader will download the feed for the first time to check it works, display all the current items and add it to the visitor’s list of feeds. Once your news feed is added to a visitor’s feed reader, the reader will periodically check the feed to see if any items have been added. The frequency of checks can be set at any rate and normally happens automatically, whenever you are connected to the Internet. When you have a news feed, people do not have visit your Web site day after day to see if it has changed, their feed reader will let them know when it has been updated. If the feed reader finds new items, it will notify your customers with a chime, a task bar icon or pop-up window and flag the un-read items for
