RSS feeds. What are they? Here is a definition of web feeds of Wikipedia
A web flow (or news feed) is a data format used to provide users of frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Make a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is carried out by an aggregator. A web flow is also sometimes referred to as a stream of syndication.
So if you are a blogger, you should know. If you don't know what is RSS and what are the web stream, you have to go to learning now.
So I guess that you know what is RSS (Really Simple Syndication). How it help your blog and your readers?
You update your blog on a regular or irregular basis. Whenever you make a new post, you obviously want your readers to know. You cannot email each drive on your new position. Of course, you can automate this process; and this can be done if they are willing to provide their email address.
Blog updates by e-mail is still one of the popular methods for your readers informed on your new blog.
If some of your readers are not prepared to submit their email address, you can always advise their, if you manage to get subscribers to your flow and if they are using a stream reader to read their food.
Therefore no really matter if your readers are willing to give their email for you or not, you can still update with your new blog.
1. You have burned your diet?
2. Do you make prominent and easy for your readers to subscribe to your feed?
The other may seem a no self or something trivial for a blogger. But I noticed that quite some bloggers have not burned their food.
Each blog has a stream by default; If you have a self hosted WordPress blog that your feed can be accessed with "feed" after the slash. If the power of this Web site is available at http://weblogbetter.com/feed.
If it's a blogspot blog RSS feeds are: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss, and if it is a wordpress.com blog, you can find at http://blogname.wordpress.com/feed.
There are many things you can do to spice up your RSS to their brand, to look nice and monetize while you publish your feeds. FeedBurner gives you the opportunity to do all this and much more.
Well even if you have burned your feed to Feedburner and have constituted the base set to deliver by electronic mail, which is not all. You must make it easy for your readers to subscribe.
Presented in important places these chicklets (the small orange icons that represent a power supply). Most common places include a tacky floating icon on a site, in the header, in the navigation bar on the fold the top of the sidebar and so on.
If your readers to look for more than 15 seconds find this icon, you have already lost a Subscriber.
You have simply easy, that you encourage your readers more of a place to subscribe to your feeds. If you have the icon in the navigation bar, there is no harm in asking your readers to subscribe to your feeds at the end of the post too.
More they encounter, they are more likely to subscribe.
1. Your food is your tool that tells the world that you have a new position.
2. You can provide updates to the feed also via email.
3. You can update your readers in (almost) in real-time.
4. You can use feeds to syndicate your content automatically on the blog as a Blog committed communities.
Oh the issue of $ 100 million which has different answers. Comprehensive, I would say.
Personally, I prefer that. It saves me a click sometimes. I read the full post on my google reader, and then click on only from the link if I want to leave a comment.
But it completely is to provide you with full or partial feeds (especially if you really want your readers to come to your blog to read your stuff).
If you are like me who prefers a diet full and if you use Chrome, you can use Super Google Reader to read the complete stream always.
Now tell me: are you feeding your readers?
