Bloggers want pageviews and visitors and RSS will not give them that! Remember: Blogging is about social interaction and community! RSS is poison!ARE YOU READING THIS via AN RSS READER or GOOGLE Reader?
If you answered "yes" did you know that you are NOT seeing some possibly valuable (to you) links, comments and possibly even images.
CLICK THROUGH DIRECTLY TO MY BLOG!
Not only to MY blog, but to ANY blog you have enjoyed visiting and have listed in your reader!
WHY?
Because you can;t see AdSense and other ads that might be of interest to you, and more importantly because the blog that you thought you were supporting by signing up for an RSS feed may have suffered at the hands of the (beware of the annoying pop up before you click on the following link) "Attack of Panda"! Your ACTUAL visit to the blog counts as a legitimate visit. Your reading the blog via RSS does NOT!
YOU COULD BE KILLING THE BLOGS YOU ENJOY!
Show 'em some REAL LOVE by bookmarking, stumbling upon, digging and linking to their posts!
The OTHER Problem with RSS ::: RSS readers encourage you to oversubscribe to news. Every time you encounter an interesting new blog post, you've got an incentive to sign up to all the posts from that blog—after all, you don't want to miss anything. Eventually you find yourself subscribed to hundreds of blogs, many of which, you later notice, are completely useless. It's like having an inbox stuffed with e-mail from overactive listservs you no longer care to read.[+link: Slate]People have been talking about KILLIN RSS for years! Here's how to KILL RSS in WordPress!
PS - I know the RSS badge is still in my sidebar! I'm just sayin'...
3 comments:
new google reader look really really sucks
I couldn't disagree more. An RSS reader is the only way I can keep track of my online reading. I've tried bookmarks, but I find it's just not as easy to keep up. It's really nice going to Google Reader or Moblie RSS and only seeing new updates - I'd waste an awful lot of time if I visited 40 sites a day that haven't updated.
If I read something in my feed and feel I want to engage in conversation because I'm drawn to the topic, I will visit the page and reach out to the community.
RSS allows me to keep up on my feeds on my mobile phone which means I don't fall behind on things I want to read. Not every site renders nicely in Safari's mobile browser, but the Mobile RSS app allows me to keep current when I'm away from my home computer for days at a time.
The RSS reader saves me time and the hassle of pages displaying improperly, unncessary cookies, etc. For example, I read this originally linked from Twitter. On the mobile version of this site, it's clean and easy to read. When I visit this site in a regular browser, there's a huge infolinks animated toolbar, a connect toolbar and all sorts of stuff cluttering up and taking away from YOUR interesting content. I understand that ads allow sites like this to be made possible -but here I am, with something to say, so I'm visiting your site and engaging in dialog - even though I'm an RSS addict.
If a site doesn't have an RSS feed, I don't follow it.
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