Posts Tagged: Feeds

Spread Your Feed

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The Power of Feeds

I can’t say that I am an expert on getting subscribers. I only have about 160. But I will cross that bridge when I come to it. But I do know a little about feeds. I know that feeds can be useful to a site if you don’t get one subscriber.

Just looking at this chart on Wired will give you an idea of how far a feed can travel. The more distance you get out of your feeds, the bigger the payoff in traffic and backlinks. A link to your site is one thing. A feed provides a new distinct link to your site each time you post. Multiply this by the amount of sites republishing your feed.  Read more... (1540 words, 3 images, estimated 6:10 mins reading time)

Creating a Feed Reading Matrix

Posted by & filed under Blogging, Firefox, Google Custom Search Engines.

How you view your feeds depends on what you want them to do for you. I have used so many feed readers that did not agree with me. The first one I stuck with for a little while was Rojo, because at the time it was the only one that would sort feed items by date. Other feed readers would sort specific feeds by date, but I wanted the newest post out of all the feeds to float to the top and then on to the next newest item. I have about 600 feeds I subscribe to and no time to click each feed to find out if there were new posts.  Read more... (615 words, estimated 2:28 mins reading time)

Netvibes ecosystem

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Netvibes ecosystem – Customize and share your netvibes experience

I had no idea netvibes had become so complex. Might have to give it a try again. I want to find some site like Rojo that could work like a feed mixer, sorting all of my feeds by newness of each seperate entry, but that loads quickly, unlike Rojo. I would be great if I could give priority to certain feeds, so that over time, I could tweak these feeds to rank higher in the mix than their newness qualifies them for.  Read more... (157 words, estimated 38 secs reading time)