RSS Beginner's Tutorial - How to Subscribe to a Blog?

### I. Purpose of Subscription?

In the Web 2.0 era, one of the biggest changes in blogs (websites) is the application of RSS technology. On one hand, authors of blogs (websites) use RSS to generate continuously updated content or summaries of their articles, presenting them to visitors in the form of an RSS address, and allowing visitors to read these resources in ways that suit them best. On the other hand, visitors to blogs (websites) can aggregate various resources from multiple blogs (websites) they like through the RSS address (a process we call "subscription") and read their updated content uniformly, no longer needing to log in to blogs (websites) every day. Clearly, the application of RSS technology saves time for visitors and enhances the stickiness of blogs (websites).

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### II. Methods of Subscription?

Generally speaking, visitors subscribe to blogs (websites) via RSS addresses in one of the following four ways:

1. Subscription through RSS subscription websites (i.e., online readers)

2. Subscription through RSS client software (i.e., offline readers)

3. Subscription through browsers that support FEED synchronization (e.g., IE 7.0, etc.)

4. Subscription through email

Among these, subscribing via websites or clients is currently the mainstream. Common RSS subscription websites include Google Reader, ZHUAXIA, Xian Guo, Bloglines, etc., while common RSS client software includes FeedDemon, Zhou Botong, Kàn Tiānxià, etc. The site owner recommends using **Google Reader** and **ZHUAXIA** to subscribe to blogs.

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### III. How to Subscribe?

Below, the site owner will introduce how to subscribe to this site using **ZHUAXIA** and **Google Reader** as examples:

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