Looking to buy or sell a home and searching for information that can help guide you through the process? There’s no better place to search for information than by cruising the Web. But checking multiple Web sites on a daily basis can be time consuming. Wouldn’t it be great to have it done for you -- to get the latest information on the topics you’re interested in delivered directly to your computer? You can.
The technology that makes this possible is called RSS (Really Simple Syndication). It allows you to get the information you need without having to check numerous Web sites manually or clutter up your inbox with email alerts. And it really is as simple as its name implies.
RealEstate.com offers news feeds on such topics as buying a home, selling a home, new construction, home financing home and gardening tips, and more.
You can choose to either have the information delivered directly to your computer by downloading a desktop newsreader or set up an account to have it delivered to a Web-based news aggregator. Most newsreaders are available at no cost.
Then, once you’ve set up where you want your RSS feeds to go, all you have to do is subscribe to the particular feeds you want and you’ll start receiving content in your reader immediately. You can subscribe to as many feeds as you want, free of charge, and you can add, edit or delete your subscriptions at any time.
Web pages usually indicate the existence of an RSS feed by displaying an icon or button with the letters RSS or XML (the programming language used to create the feed). Other sites, RealEstate.com included, also mark their feeds with a small orange square containing a series of curved lines representative of broadcast waves.
Ready to start receiving information targeted to your specific needs? Sign up now to receive FREE RSS feeds from RealEstate.com.
Published on May 30, 2007