An Outsider Look at hiveRSS.com

The Outsider Guide to HIVE provides a daily review for web sites that interface with the HIVE blockchain. Today's Review looks at hiveRSS.com .

As the name implies, hiveRSS.com produces RSS Feeds for accounts on the HIVE blockchain. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a web specification first released in 1999 to aide in the aggregation of web content. The feeds includes the author, publication date and introduction to articles on the web.

To view the RSS feed for a site, simply append the account username after the hiverss.com/@ . URL below shows the URL for the @irivers account.

hiverss.com/@irivers?interface=peakd

Adding the attribute ?interface=peakd tells the program to use peakd.com as the base URL for the feed.

The feed itself is hard to read. RSS feeds presents the data in a format optimized for RSS aggregators.

Some webfans use RSS aggregators so that they can follow several blogs at once without having to load each web site. There numerous computer programs the load and aggregate blog posts for a variety of purposes.

From its inception, RSS has been a primary way to publicize blog posts. To be honest, I was surprised the SteemIt.com (now HIVE) did not include an RSS feed in its product.

The Reason for the Outsider Guide

A final note, the reason that I created a site review program was so that my site would have an RSS feed. RSS Feeds bring traffic to a web site.

This is the RSS feed I created for irivers.com

irivers.com/rss.php

In the early days of the Internet, RSS was an extremely important tool for building traffic to a web site. I would go as far as to say that many blogs were started specifically to get web sites noticed by RSS aggregators.

Back in the day, the simple existence of an RSS feed brought several hundred readers to irivers.com a day.

My reviews are not particularly insightful. The RSS feed will bring some web traffic to all of the sites in the HIVE ecosystem; so the reviews are doing some good.

I am not sure to the extent that RSS affects web traffic today. They had a positive effect in the past.

Things haven't changed that much. I believe that HIVE users can improve traffic through their blog by promoting their RSS feed on hiveRSS. RSS is one of of the ways around the filters imposed by Google and big tech.

Of course RSS aggregators tend to have their own filters. I don't mind the use of filters. Problems arise when a few filters controlled by the elite determines what gets read.