How To Capture Blog Readers Using RSS

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It always amazes me just how many great blogs fail when it comes to capturing readers.

As part of BubbleCow’s goal to inspire writers to write and get published we run an active Twitter stream (@bubblecow). Each day we tweet out loads of high quality links to sites and blogs that we feel will add value to writer’s lives. In order to do this we look at loads of blogs each day, hunting out the best posts to share with you.

We have found that the best way to do this is to use an RSS reader to collect all the blogs we follow (which is hundreds) into one place. The RSS reader of choice at BubbleCow is Google Reader.

So you can imagine just how frustrating it is to come across a great blog, only to find they don’t either have an RSS stream or a simple button that will allow us to add them to our reader.

No RSS = Invisible

So what is RSS?

Here is a quick video that will explain RSS…

Adding RSS to WordPress

Adding RSS to Blogger

Feedburner

Feedburner is a great tool and it highly recommended.

WordPress

Blogger

Can you suggest any ‘how to’ sites that might help readers looking to set up RSS?

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  • Anonymous

    Hi there, I’ve just added a post about ‘Feeding the RSS Monster’ to my blog today. Have a squiz – http://www.vegemitevix.com/2010/04/29/feeding-the-rss-monster/ Early feedback is that folk have found it helpful. Cheers Vix

    • garysmailes

      RSS is complicated for those new to the concept but it does help visitors keep track of your blog. I will have a look at your article. Thanks for the link.

  • http://www.AnyShinyThing.com Lynne Spreen

    Thanks so much for this!

  • vegemitevix

    Hi there, I've just added a post about 'Feeding the RSS Monster' to my blog today. Have a squiz – http://www.vegemitevix.com/2010/04/29/feeding-t… Early feedback is that folk have found it helpful. Cheers Vix

  • garysmailes

    RSS is complicated for those new to the concept but it does help visitors keep track of your blog. I will have a look at your article. Thanks for the link.

  • http://www.AnyShinyThing.com Lynne Spreen

    Thanks so much for this!

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