Written on November 14th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse

Are RSS Subscribers Worthwhile if they Don’t Visit Your Blog?

Blog Promotion, Featured Posts, RSS 150 comments

“Why do bloggers put so much focus upon growing RSS subscriber numbers to their blog if most of them only ever read your content in Feed Readers and don’t visit your blog?”
This question (or variations of it) hit my inbox 3 times in 24 hours from different people so I thought I’d tackle it as [...]

Written on August 5th, 2008 at 10:08 pm by Darren Rowse

How to Get 2500 New ‘Subscribers’ to Your Blog Overnight (and Why I Don’t Really Care)

Pro Blogging News, RSS 70 comments

Every 2nd blog about blogging today seems to be writing about a video showing how to get 2500 subscribers overnight using a Netvibes accounts and an OPML file with thousands of copies of your own feed in it.

I’ve had a lot of people email me to ask what I think about the technique. My response:

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