Tag Archives: RSS

October 28, 2008
New Google Reader feature– also tagged ,

I just hit the “feed details” link on my Google Reader to find out about a nice little feature Google just added. It’s no big deal and won’t change your life (well maybe, so continue reading!), but it’s fairly interesting and I simply want to let you know about it.
Poster habits Vs Reader habits
When you [...]

October 19, 2008
Advertisers: wake up! The real subscriber count– also tagged , , ,

I am not going to make friends with that one for sure. As most of you know, I published an article last week about how you could artificially inflate or fake your Feedburner subscriber count and strongly advised you not to do it for obvious reasons. Now, do you think I would let you guys [...]

July 24, 2008
Can the feedburner counter be that important?– also tagged , , ,

Today, ShoeMoney published an interesting post about a recent “mistake” he made. That mistake was to remove his feedburner subscriber count from his website. He was actually annoyed of people reacting to the ups and downs of his subscribers count, so he decided to remove it and it’s understandable. Now, it seems that since he [...]

July 17, 2008
Full RSS feed: Short-term loss, long-term gains– also tagged , , ,

Do you publish summaries of posts in your RSS feed? If you do so, I’m pretty sure the reason is to monetize your blog. RSS feeds are extremely hard to monetize and limiting the size of the posts to force the user to visit your website is a common thing. Unfortunately, it’s the opposite: in [...]