I’m getting something like 40% of my traffic from feeds now. I don’t mean referrers from people like Sammy and Elder (though I am very grateful to them both). I mean from people getting my posts via their newsreaders.
That makes sense. I get the blogs I don’t have the desire to go to physically anymore via feed. And if there’s a post I like over at Omri’s (which is, dammit, almost every one), then I’ll go check in on his blog and read more than the summary that his annoying feed now sends (SOME of us send the WHOLE post via our RSS feed, hint, hint, hint).
You’ll have to remind me of this the next time I gripe that my readership is down.
And thanks for putting the WHOLE post in the feed. It’s a little annoying to have to go to the site each time to complete the reading, especially when there a lot of blogs made. With the whole post I only have to go to the site to make a comment, like now.
I thought you were only complaining about the lack of comments, not readership. Like with print magazines, the feeds are the subscriptions and the site is the newstand. The newstand is just the icing on the cake, the subscriptions are the known commodity.
feeds? are they low calorie good for your health or oh so sinfully rich yummy chocolate good for your soul?
Actually they’re RSS’s for your inner geek.
RSS… random sustainable sublimations ?
or refractive sequential symmetry
oops …sorry, in a goofy mood…
my inner geek needs some led zepplin and chamucos
“the blogs I don’t have the desire to go to physically…”
I’ve never gone to a blog _physically_. I don’t think it’s possible.
I know, just careless use of a word that sort-of-means something like what you meant when it is hard to think of a correct word. But still I pick the nit.
Ok, I left the comfortable confines of Google Reader. Happy now?
Keep on blogging even if people don’t visit your site, please. :)