RSS world
I had recently noticed a drop in traffic for my site per Sitemeter. May was an unusual month for me as I got instalanched, KABAlanched and Firearmnewslanched. I was averaging about 700 or so visits a day per Sitemeter now I’m at about 450 per day. This trend rather depressed me.
Then I started looking at AWStats, the stats program my wonderful hosting service Hosting Matters provides. I noticed that while hits to the actual html pages is dropping, hits to my feeds have nearly tripled, more than accounting for the drop off in traffic.
My point, if you blog, have a feed.
August 6th, 2004 at 3:17 pm
I will have to be honest here.
If your blog interests me and I cannot find a RSS feed for it, I will probably see it only when it is linked from my RSS sites.
I read some 70 blogs, day in and day out, absolutely awesome blogs like Mad Ogre take a back seat to these due to lack of a feed.
Uncle, I read every one of your posts due to your feed, keep up the great work!