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RSS isn't dead. Smart bloggers will always expose an RSS feed, because readers following your RSS feed are more likely to read your blog than traffic from othe
by bad_user 7y ago
RSS isn't dead.
Smart bloggers will always expose an RSS feed, because readers following your RSS feed are more likely to read your blog than traffic from other sources. Having an RSS feed is the slightly weaker version of the mailing lists. Mail which is also going strong — and the easiest way to build a mailing list btw, is to connect your RSS feed to Mailchimp.
And RSS feeds are mandatory for podcasts too.
Some blogs choose not to expose RSS feeds of course, but they do so at their own loss. This is because some people are not interested in expanding their audience, they just want to publish some stuff from time to time. And that's totally fine.
> Plus it's difficult to monetize an RSS feed.
An RSS feed can include just summaries that redirect users to your website. And I actually prefer summaries because I don't want to mess with CSS stuff.
Of course you can monetize it, from where did you get the impression that you can't?
- novok 7y agoRe: monetizing: Probably means you cant execute random JavaScript in an rss reader? I might be wrong on that.
- waterhouse 7y agoAt least the Vienna RSS reader (open-source for Mac), which I use, carries a full-fledged browser, and I think it displays full HTML—images and such. I'm not sure if I see any entries that execute serious Javascript, but I imagine it would work.
- lbatista 7y agoRSS died when Google Reader died.
- jkmcf 7y agoA summary of the article would be nice, but most of the time it is an information-less lead to get you to click.
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- Fogest 7y agoAnd even if the RSS feeds are not used a lot by the majority of the audience, I wouldn't be surprised if it helped bring in other audiences. I feel like RSS users are more likely power users and may be more a bit more interested in the site than most users. I personally know that a lot of the RSS feeds I am subscribed to I also end up sharing articles with friends. I see these articles early and quick and help create early discussion about them and comment early on them often first. I feel like overall RSS feed users may not directly look hugely beneficial to a site, but can have other impacts hard to track.
- ukyrgf 7y ago> And RSS feeds are mandatory for podcasts too. Tell that to Stitcher. They have paid Stitcher Premium podcasts that you can only play in their (terrible) app. A third party developer ended up creating "Unofficial RSS Feeds" for them, but who knows how long that will last.