Comments on: Increase RSS Feed Subscribers – Part I of Fine Tuning Your Blog

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By: Ben Yoskovitz

Ben Yoskovitz — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:16:04 +0000

Hey Leah - thanks for the feedback.

I didn't use the FeedBurner Replacement Plugin but what I did do was change all the feeds to the Feedburner one, so even when my feed is auto-discovered it goes there.

That makes me think maybe I should just take out the chicklets altogether.

I'm not sure I can install the FeedBurner Replacement plugin now without mucking something up...and I'm not sure it's necessary anyway (but for new blogs I setup I do use it!)

By: Ben Yoskovitz

Ben Yoskovitz — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:16:04 +0000

Hey Leah – thanks for the feedback.

I didn’t use the FeedBurner Replacement Plugin but what I did do was change all the feeds to the Feedburner one, so even when my feed is auto-discovered it goes there.

That makes me think maybe I should just take out the chicklets altogether.

I’m not sure I can install the FeedBurner Replacement plugin now without mucking something up…and I’m not sure it’s necessary anyway (but for new blogs I setup I do use it!)

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Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:48:23 +0000

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By: Leah Maclean

Leah Maclean — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:20:23 +0000

I've gone down the path of getting rid of all the chicklets and using just the regular "subscribe to RSS" type button. I use this along with Feedburner's Smart Feed function that will recognise most people's feed reader and deliver it in a fashion that works for that reader. When I subscribe to someone's feed that uses Smart Feed it automatically recognises that I use FeedDemon/NewsGator and opens the subscription in that.

My thoughts are the people that know about RSS will sort it out no matter what. THe ones that have no idea about RSS probably also have no idea what reader they are using and which chicklet to click as well. So in my book simple is best.

And if all else fails they can subscribe to an emailed version of the post/feed.

IMHO - I strongly dislike (read can't stand) all those chicklets ... looks messy.

By: Leah Maclean

Leah Maclean — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:20:23 +0000

I’ve gone down the path of getting rid of all the chicklets and using just the regular “subscribe to RSS” type button. I use this along with Feedburner’s Smart Feed function that will recognise most people’s feed reader and deliver it in a fashion that works for that reader. When I subscribe to someone’s feed that uses Smart Feed it automatically recognises that I use FeedDemon/NewsGator and opens the subscription in that.

My thoughts are the people that know about RSS will sort it out no matter what. THe ones that have no idea about RSS probably also have no idea what reader they are using and which chicklet to click as well. So in my book simple is best.

And if all else fails they can subscribe to an emailed version of the post/feed.

IMHO – I strongly dislike (read can’t stand) all those chicklets … looks messy.

By: Andrew Flusche

Andrew Flusche — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:41:01 +0000

Ben,

I really think you're onto something about overwhelming new readers with too many options. If you're really new to RSS, you'll probably end up using a mainstream aggregator. Thus, perhaps you could just provide the top 3 aggregators as options.

Such dilemmas...