Bloggers, Are You Checking On Your RSS Feeds?
As today’s online marketers and bloggers, there’s seemed to be many tasks to manage like maintaining relationships on your subscribers list, making sure their sites are not down, or to make sure that their split-tests are working to their advantage… These are just some of the many daily task required!
But one thing that I am noticing (after I have set up GuruRSS) is that many bloggers are not maintaining their RSS feeds well, especially those feeds that are redirected to external services like e.g. FeedBurner and FeedBlitz.
What Are RSS Feeds And FeedBurner?
Based on Wikipedia, RSS is most commonly known as “Really Simple Syndication” but sometimes “Rich Site Summary” and is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works - such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. Click here to read up more on RSS.
And FeedBurner, also known as a form of RSS Reader and is one of Google’s free services that many internet marketers are currently using to direct their RSS feeds to. Another common service is FeedBlitz.
So Why Is It Important To Check On Your RSS Feeds?
In simple term, you do not wish to have your Readers missed out on your postings. Also one factor to note is that most people are using RSS feeds on their RSS Reader or through email delivery to catch up on their daily consumption of Blog Reads rather than going to individual sites to catch up.
Big Shot Blogger like John Chow and Tech Site like TechCrunch are also using their RSS feeds to monetize (Google Adsense and Private Ads) the site. This can just be another source of online income for you.
Therefore this is one good area that you do not wish to miss out on.
What Can You Do To Check On Your RSS Feed
Very simple. If you are using a RSS reader or using those email delivery services provided to read up on other Blogs, you can always subscribe to your own. You may find this uncommon or weird but the benefits are two-fold:
- You get to read up your own writing again. Check for Grammar or typo errors.
- If you are able to read through your email and your RSS reader on what you have just posted, this means that your RSS feed is still working fine.
When this area is taken care of, you will know that your Readers are always kept in the loop of whatever you have posted. No more feeling lost!
You also get to keep them close to your heart while you concentrate on other marketing efforts in bring in those revenues!
Lastly, you can always go to GuruRSS and check out if the blogs of the Gurus are still working fine… If not, why not take this chance to make a contact to these affected Gurus and give them a reminder that their feeds are not working.
And also if you feel that you are a Guru as well and would like to have your RSS feed on my site, please feel free to leave down your comments below. Keep in contact!
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