Comments on: Visiting your website: With RSS, I don’t need to!

By: Vanina

Vanina — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:45:22 +0000

I also use RSS a lot. Once I find a blog interesting it goes on my Netvibes page. When I review my feeds and that I find an interesting article to read I however then go on the site because I find it more convivial:)

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By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:43:47 +0000

Tiffany, thank you for your comment. I used to be a Bloglines user, but switched to Google Reader last summer and haven’t looked back! The ability to easily share and tag posts is excellent, as are the shortcut keys for powering through unread feeds.

You’re quite right that RSS presents a challenge for site owners, particularly for those who sell ad space based on eyeballs. I nearly made a note about that very point in this post. What many companies do — and what I hope you won’t do — is set their RSS feeds to only show part of the message. The reader then has to click through to the original site to see the rest of the post.

And as for you? Maybe you need to consider other metrics for measuring success. You’re using Feedburner for your feeds, so what about keeping track of how many people are subscribing. Is that number growing? And if you insist on advertising, Feedburner should give you the option to insert small ads into the feed itself. Options to consider, right?

By: Tiffany Monhollon

Tiffany Monhollon — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:13:44 +0000

I think I need a new reader, because Bloglines seems to be getting slower and slower every day. Perhaps that’s because I use it to store a lot of posts I want to revisit. I’ve been trying out stumbling as a better way to keep track of things I like, so perhaps that will help out a bit.

It’s interesting, because as useful as RSS is to a user, it presents a bit of an issue for the owner, who’s losing a valuable metric if people stop clicking over to sites, and perhaps a valuable revenue stream as well.