http://www.writingcave.com Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:17:49 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.writingcave.com/what-are-rss-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-32450 Are the RSS feeds really beneficial? | Content Writing and CopyWriting Blog Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:22:47 +0000 http://www.writingcave.com/what-are-rss-feeds/#comment-32450 [...] Yesterday I was writing a small page on RSS feeds to tell my non-technical readers what RSS feeds are, how they can subscribe to them, and what are the benefits of subscribing to RSS feeds. It’s been just recently that I’ve started getting some decent traffic (more than a thousand visitors per day) at Writing Cave and it’s exciting/disturbing to see the RSS feed subscribers counter going up, all of a sudden, and plunging down, the very next day. So I was just wondering, is all this getting worked up about my RSS feed subscribers worth it? It seems completely a different world when I see the counts on other websites, take for instance, Problogger.net, that boast of more than 25,000 RSS feed subscribers. But what’s the use of stopping these 25,000, highly interested readers from coming to your blog because they can read your complete posts through their RSS feed readers? We try to write engaging posts regularly so that people come to our blogs to read them. From the readers’ point of view the RSS feeds make perfect sense, but of what benefit are they to the publishers, the bloggers? I did some research and found the following benefits of encouraging your visitors to subscribe to your RSS feeds: [...] [...] Yesterday I was writing a small page on RSS feeds to tell my non-technical readers what RSS feeds are, how they can subscribe to them, and what are the benefits of subscribing to RSS feeds. It’s been just recently that I’ve started getting some decent traffic (more than a thousand visitors per day) at Writing Cave and it’s exciting/disturbing to see the RSS feed subscribers counter going up, all of a sudden, and plunging down, the very next day. So I was just wondering, is all this getting worked up about my RSS feed subscribers worth it? It seems completely a different world when I see the counts on other websites, take for instance, Problogger.net, that boast of more than 25,000 RSS feed subscribers. But what’s the use of stopping these 25,000, highly interested readers from coming to your blog because they can read your complete posts through their RSS feed readers? We try to write engaging posts regularly so that people come to our blogs to read them. From the readers’ point of view the RSS feeds make perfect sense, but of what benefit are they to the publishers, the bloggers? I did some research and found the following benefits of encouraging your visitors to subscribe to your RSS feeds: [...]

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