Making my site show up in news aggregators

Question

I keep running into posts about creating a news aggregator, but how do I make my site (a blog/news site) compatible with one? My office received an email about making our site "Feedly-friendly," but I'm trying to figure out if there is a generic way of making it work across many different aggregators (Google News, etc..) Is it just RSS? Do people even still use RSS for this stuff? I have no idea where to start.

Answer 1

Of course it's RSS... and yes, RSS is the way to go. It's the only format that is both consumed by a lot of different readers: Google News, Flipboard, Feedly, Newsblur... and hundreds of others, as well as published by pretty much any kind of website.

Now, based on your CMS, it's very likely that there are already RSS feeds generated either "natively" or using a plugin.