Archive for the 'RSS' Category

Reasons why RSS is good for Users:
- Users benefit from better information control and efficiency.
- Permission based.
- Easy opt-in, and opt-out process.
- No inbox clutter.
- Enhances productivity.
- Enhances organization of files
- RSS is spam/virus proof.
- No more clogged email servers (or harddrives).
- No more duplicate messages (for the most part).

With the current state of what Google did to my listing in the SERPs, I am relying much more on traffic from my RSS feed, and other bloggers who link to me from within their posts to generate traffic to my blog. I’m forced to look to other ways to generate “free” website traffic, because Google has essentially been the traffic killer for all my clicksthroughs on the Google domain.

Fortunately, I’m still getting traffic from Y!, MSN, Ask, and other referrers. So, more than ever before, I’d very much appreciate subscribers to my RSS feed.

Google is also waging war on honest sites that add value to their readership by selling relevant textlinks. Google’s most recent PageRank update could also potentially decrease many advertisers natural traffic.

If you mouse over the green PR pixels, you’ll see Google says, “PageRank is Google’s view of the importance of this page”. So, all of a sudden, your network of sites drops in “importance”, then your rankings ( and traffic) will most likely drop also. This is another unnecessary Google slap at the entire Search industry.

So, if you’ve found some blogs you like to read, if only occasionally, then I encourage you to subscribe to their RSS Feed.

Some good RSS readers are:
FeedDemon
Bloglines
My Yahoo
Google Reader

So, given the state of things…I’d very much appreciate subscribers to my RSS feed.