A1OnlineMall - Feeds and Feed Readers. What can they do for You?

For now, we offer two RSS feeds: One for the Discount coupons and special deals department and other for the Online Shopping Blog. Feel free to add either one or both to your feed reader. To add our feeds to your reader, just click on your reader name under that feed below. If you never heard about feeds or feed readers, don't worry, you are not alone! It's relatively new and emerging technology. Just scroll down to learn more.

Feed for Discount Coupons and Specials
Google Reader
My Yahoo!
NewsGator
NewsBurst
Bloglines
Pluck
Rojo
My AOL

Feed for Online Shopping Blog
Google Reader
My Yahoo!
NewsGator
NewsBurst
Bloglines
Pluck
Rojo
My AOL

If your reader is not listed above, use the following feed url in your reader and you should be OK.
To subscribe to our Discount Coupons and Specials dept use the feed url:
http://www.a1onlinemall.com/coupons_rebates_newsletter/atom.xml

To subscribe to Online Shopping Blog use the feed url:
http://www.a1onlinemall.com/online_shopping_blog/atom.xml

What are Feeds, Feed Readers and What can they do for You?
Feeds and Feed readers are a relatively new phenomenon and they are becoming very popular. They are becoming popular as they help you to keep up to date on the web content you care about. This is best explained by a simple example:
Let us say that you want to know whenever we add a new discount coupon or deal to our Online Discount Coupons and Special Deals department which we do almost everyday and sometimes several times a day. Let us also say that you have a favorite Online Newspaper which you read to keep yourself up to date on news, and you also regularly visit a jokes site to get a chuckle, and another web site for whatever interests you and on and on whatever your interests may be.
Now you could keep track of the above web sites the old fashion way - book mark them and visit them! But that is very tedious and time consuming. And you may still miss the latest content as the sites might have added new content after your visit. The Feed Readers come to the rescue!
With feeds and feed reader, you don't need to visit every web site you want yourself updated about, the feeds and feed readers do it for you. How do feeds and feed reader do that? We won't get into the technical details as you don't need to worry about that (let the techies worry about that) just like when you drive a car you don't need to worry as to how a car is manufactured or how it actually works. All you need to know is how to drive a car and you can use the car (if you have a valid license, of course!). So we will show you how to use feeds with a feed reader. And the good news is that most of the feed readers are free and you don't need a license to use one (Ha, Ha, Ha).
There are many feed readers available on the Internet. We have listed many above and most of them are free though some charge a small fee. Google Reader and My Yahoo are definitely free, so for this example we will use Google Reader though you may choose whichever suits your interests.
To use a Google reader you will need a Google account. You already have a Google account if you use Gmail, Google groups or any other of their services. In this case, you don't need to do anything else, you are set to use the Google reader. But if don't have an account with them, you can create one for free. Once you have an account, log in to the reader and add the feeds of the sites you want to keep track of. As soon as you add sites feeds to the reader, it will start showing recent headlines and a small detail for each headline from that site. And then the reader keeps visiting those sites gathering the updates. The process is almost real time.

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Thus you can glance at all the up to date headlines in your reader without the need to personally visit the sites. If a headline interests you and you want to know more details, you just click on the headline and the website page opens for you to read all the details. Thus a feed reader is a tool that helps you to stay up to date about the web sites you want to keep yourself up to date about without the need for you to actually visit each site thereby saving you your precious time.
Of course, a feed reader can only help you keep informed about a site if that site offers a feed. Most sites, including ours, offer feeds and many others are joining in. Again, you don't need to worry about how the site feeds are actually generated, let the techies worry about that. You just need to know how to add a site feed to your feed reader.
So to get started with feed readers, here is a step by step procedure. The procedure is valid for any feed but for this example we are assuming that you want to add our Discount Coupons and Special Deals feed to the Google Reader (because you will be taken away from this page when you follow the following procedure, you may want to copy the procedure to a text editor like Notepad):

1. Near the top of this page, click on Google Reader under the Feed for Discount Coupons and Specials heading.
2. As soon as you click, you will be taken to Google Reader page where it will show our Feed title and its description and you will have the option to log in to the Google reader or sign up. Actually, the Google site gives you two choices: to log into Google Desktop or Google Reader. For the purpose of this procedure, just ignore that desktop thing. At this stage it will be a good idea to book mark the Google Reader page for easy login in future.
3. If you have any Google account already, use that user name and password to login and if you don't have any account, just sign up and log in.
4. As soon as you log in, you will be asked if you want to add our Discount Coupons and Specials feed to your reader. Click yes and you are done! Almost immediately you will see the latest headlines from our Discount Coupons and Specials dept in your reader.
5. Use the procedure above to add any other feed you are interested in.
6. From now on, whenever you are logged in to the Google Reader, you will see the latest headlines from the feeds that you have added to the reader.
7. And if a headline interests you, you can click on "Show Original Content" on Google reader to read the full details about that headline.
8. Enjoy your feeds and feed reader!

RSS Feeds and Feed Readers