Fri 6 May 2005 - Turn on your feeds
Dear Blogger users,
I’m increasingly reading blogs through an aggregator. This is a software tool that grabs text from lots of different web pages and puts it in one place for me. It saves me time, and allows me to read more blogs in less time. More people are using them all the time.
To enable this, many blogs have site feeds, using technologies such as RSS and Atom, and provide a link somewhere that people can plug into their aggregator to read it that way. But most Blogger sites don’t have this turned on by default. If you use Blogger and haven’t already done it, make the time to switch it on — the instructions are here — it should only take a couple of minutes, and (if it’s what you want) it’ll make it easier for people to stay up to date with your blog.
May 6th, 2005 at 7:25pm
Daniel - can you redo the link to the instructions? It seems to be broken. Thanks!
May 7th, 2005 at 8:23am
Oops, thanks Niki - fixed now!
May 7th, 2005 at 11:12am
I read a lot of blogs through an aggregator. I use bloglines. I still find that I link through to a few to comment, but on the whole I just read them via the single page. It’s so much easier! And when they update, your one single page gets updated. So much time saved!!
May 7th, 2005 at 8:46pm
To me, reading blogs is a personal thing, but no matter, I will check mine to see if it is set up that way.
May 9th, 2005 at 8:55am
If you are interested in increasing your readership, RSS feeds are the way to go. Your blog, or posts from it, will show up in all manner of searches as well as direct subscriptions. Many of the blogs I now explictly have on my subscription list were found because they came up in one of the keyword searches I have set up at Bloglines.