Classified Advertising Service “Ads” Value With RSS
buysell.com has made it very easy to keep on top of new classified listings on their site, generating a lot of value for those advertise with their service. Attention of viewers=more exposure.
Here is a search for a specific type of car in HTML and in rss.
Someone interested in this particular search can subscribe to updates with a feed reader such as one built into most browsers and new updates will show up - they won’t have to consiously visit the site every few days looking for new ads.
Used Victoria also provides RSS feeds for their various categories. You can only find them via browser autodiscovery.
Canada.com classifieds would do well to add similar functionality to their service. So would mls.ca.
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