RSS, subscriptions and feed readers
RSS is a standard protocol to publish the content of a blog. By consuming RSS you can keep track of several blogs without having to visit their web pages frequently.
For consuming RSS feeds there are both applications to run locally on your computer and services that run in your browser.
The most known web based feed readers are:
You can find a lot of programs on the Internet to download and read RSS feeds on your computer. Those I have tried are:
… but I got hooked on Bloglines since it allows me to read my feeds everywhere.
If you are a blogger RSS can help you retain your readers even if you post infrequently since they don’t have to visit your site to get your new content.
If you get many feed subscriber it can be a good idea to use Feedburner. It is a service, recently bought by Google, that publishes your feed from their servers. That way you don’t have to pay for the traffic. Feedburner also offers a way to monetize your feed and some statistics about your readers and their behavior.
If you are using Wordpress; here is an instruction about how to enable the Fedburner redirection.
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[...] Feed readers can check your site quite often so to save some bandwidth and get some nice statistics go to Feedburner and create an account. Feedburner has an excellent article on how to get the Feedburner plugin to work. [...]
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