Matt Cutts Made Me Do It

Written on January 12, 2008 – 4:54 pm | by oldschool

I haven’t been a big fan of RSS readers and I prefer to get me feeds via email. As I did my 2008 evaluation, I decided to make sure I was subscribing to the sites that I frequent and the first one that I tried to subscribe to was my good friend Simon Heseltine at SearchEngineTigers.com. I gave him a hard time about not using email subscriptions, but now I guess the joke is on me because I am now subscribing to RSS feeds using a reader. I realized that it will make me more efficient if I bring the info to me, rather than going our to it daily. So this is another step in the right direction towards super efficient blogging in 2008.

So what does this have to do with Matt Cutts? Well I was on his blog, and at first I couldn’t find any RSS icons or widgets (Hey Matt, feedburner – now owned by Google – has some really cool RSS tools) Noticing that he was showing his stats which included lots of RSS subscriptions, I figured he had to have some way to subscribe. I found an obscure “RSS 2.0″ text link and then I was in.

To each his own, right? Bottom line is he doesn’t need me as a subscriber, but for those looking to build their blog following, I highly recommend allowing people to subscribe via email. In fact, the info will get to them much quicker, unless they tend to read their reader before their email.

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3 Responses to “Matt Cutts Made Me Do It”
By Glenn Abel on Jan 14, 2008 | Reply

I have always prefered email — into a secondary account.

That way it’s easy to read and leave in place, in case there’s an action item in there. I have email from blogs going back months, and when I have downtime I go in there and see what’s what.

The trick is to dump the subscriptions you don’t read all that much. Kill an email service every time you add one. My email get better and better that way.

As a blogger, I feel much more committed to my email audience than the faceless RSS folk. Plus, I can blast ‘em once in a while with a freebie or something.
By oldschool on Jan 15, 2008 | Reply

I hear ya Glenn. I did realize that although some people make it harder to access the information on my terms, it helps me save time from jumping to multiple blogs to use my RSS reader.