How Do You Read Your Favorite Blogs?
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I have a confession to make: I am a hypocrite. On numerous places on my blog I ask readers to subscribe to my feed. But do I subscribe to the blogs that I visit on a regular basis? As of today, the answer would be NO. Although I am a loyal reader to over 60 blogs, I bookmark them instead of subscribing to them. I really can’t explain why I don’t like browsing blogs in a reader, as they are a more efficient way to view new posts. Perhaps it is that I like to observe changes in sidebar ads, themes, and other design features. No matter what is causing my brain to avoid blog readers, I am not doing a major disservice to these blogs.
Subscribing to a blog helps that blog in many ways:
1. Helps attract more readers. When I first visit a blog and notice that it has a large number of subscribers, I am much more likely to explore the blog to see what has made it so popular.
2. Increases advertising rates. If you enjoy a blog, why not help it make money and increase the chances it will remain active.
3. Gives the blog credibility. Subscribing to a blog is like giving them your seal of approval and yields credibility. For instance, if a blogger uncovered some kind of scandal or broke a major story, but only had 22 subscribers, it would be viewed with much more skepticism than if the blog had 2000 subscribers.
So, after I finish submitting this post to a couple of social bookmarking sites, I plan to subscribe to all the blogs that I read regularly. Atlhough, I will still visit them via my bookmarks, I will be “casting my vote” that their blog is worthy of being read and I might even be motivating them to continue blogging.
How do you visit your favorite blogs? Leave a comment to let me know as I am very interested in the results.
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Google Reader is excellent.
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I have a blogroll and visit each blog at lease once per week. I only subscribe to a few blogs, since i like visiting the blog and seeing the pic’s and other items.
I’ve had my read Swingline ever since I began my own business….I can always find it on my messy desk!
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As for subscription management, well, it isn’t intended to manage your subscriptions really. You can add or delete a subscription wherever you see a post from it or from any website with a feed, so it is easy to decide to stop rovr from fetching a feed you’ve gotten tired of.
Rovr isn’t a feed reader like google reader. It is very lightweight to have feeds fetched from, and change ones mind when one doesn’t care for the content anymore.
Thanks!
I bookmark the sites and read them regularly :p
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I was skeptical about rss readers at first, but as i started to visit and read more blogs, i needed something to save me from painful work. I had problems at beginning with some bad readers and i almost quit until i tried google’s reader. It really helps a lot, and i would recommend rss readers to everyone. Just choice the one that suits you most.
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I made a page which includes business feeds I like. Otherwise, I just go to the sites I like from memory.
I use FeedDemon 2.7 RSS reader to read my subs. I find it easier to navigate than a standard web browser. It still allows me to drop and EntreCard, leave comments or click on interesting advertisements if I want.
Great responses. I have now subscribed to over 75 blogs and am using Google.
I will have to check out Feed Demon 2.7 though. . .
I just can’t vibe out eith RSS readers. I tried both blogslines and google reader and just don’t like them - I guess I am web 1.0 hehe.
I’ll often subscribe by email though
I tend to do one of two things: either bookmark and visit often or I subscribe to feeds using MyYahoo! I will say that most of the time I rely on my bookmarks but every now and then I will use MyYahoo and it is so easy to see what is new and what I should check out. I need to find a better way to read RSS feeds.
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I have to say that I am just as bad about subscribing. I like to see the pages also and not just the posts. I know I should because of the efficiency and every other reason you gave above but I haven’t done it yet. I suppose it would be time to start doing it and seeing if it works well for me. Thanks for the info.
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What I do is make a list of all the blogs I like. When I find an interesting blog, I add it to the list. Then, I will occasionally pick out a blog from the list and go through the archives for that blog. While doing that, I will put my favorite posts from that blog in a Google Docs document.
Getting people to add your blog feed is very important…I use Google Reader, but I never actually *read* the blog posts within the Reader interface. I just use it to scan headlines quickly and then I go to those that look interesting
i think Google reader more preferable, here you nicely describe benefits, but most reader like us they daily visits but not subscribe , and some of those subscribe but not reads, only one way or might possibility to supply something unique or interesting stuff to attract people.