Organizing RSS Feeds

When talking about organizing RSS feeds there are two ways we can look at it. First is organizing the RSS feeds you subscribe to and second is organizing the RSS feeds you generate.

Organizing your subscriptions is actually pretty much a non-issues since almost all subscribers use some kind of RSS readers anyway. These RSS readers usually have some method of organization that its users can utilize so that organizing is not a problem.

The second issue, which is organizing the RSS feeds you generate, is the one we will be discussing. When you have a website you are not limited to a single RSS feed for that site. In fact it is pretty common to have several RSS feeds for a single website. Why is this?

Remember that RSS feeds are usually themed so that items within a single feed are pretty much related to each other if not in content at least in function. For example blogs have entries or posts, which the blog author writes, and comments, wherein visitors get to air their views about the content of the post. What is usually done is that and RSS feed is set up for the entries and another RSS feed set up for the comments. This way people can subscribe to your blog and get the content of entries alone, or comments alone, or even both. This way subscribers get to choose what is relevant to them and you get to organize your feeds by function.