I’ve always found it odd that Google Reader has no search functionality. With search being Google’s bread and butter it is beyond me why their feed reader doesn’t have even the most basic search capability.
After looking for a solution, the best I could come up with is a Greasemonkey script for Firefox. It’s options […]
Not all your visitors will be tech savvy users, and even though they might be using a feed reader regularly, it doesn’t necessarily mean they will be familiar with all the terminology.
That being the case it’s a good idea to add some chicklet buttons for the more popular RSS readers to improve your chances […]
Muhammad Saleem has written a guest post over at Copyblogger which discusses the importance of writing good headlines for both readers, search engines, and social sites.
He makes some excellent points in this article and I wanted to expand on two in particular. How headlines can affect RSS subscribers and search engines.
RSS Subscribers
Contrary to what […]
The name of this plugin speaks for itself really. It allows you to quickly and easily add a list of related posts to the bottom of your feed.
There are no options at the moment to change the way it displays the list, but the default look is clean and simple. You can see what it looks like in my […]
It takes far too long to update feeds.
On average it’s taking about 1 to 2 hours for a new post to show up in Google Reader. When I was using Netvibes it never took more than 10 minutes.
After reading some similar complaints on the Google Reader discussion forum it would appear that Google polls feeds once every […]
Using a few pieces of paper and a magic marker the guys over at Common Craft have created one of the best introductory primers on RSS and feed readers I have seen.
If you want to educate anyone on RSS and it’s benefits I suggest you have them watch this video. For something so simple it’s amazingly […]
Rick Klau, VP of Publishing Services at FeedBurner has made an interesting comment about partial feeds on the official FeedBurner blog. According to Rick there appears to be no significant difference in clickthrough rates between full and partial RSS feeds. This is particularly interesting because one of the major arguments for using a partial […]
You may not have realised this but in the 2.1+ versions of Wordpress there is a bug/feature that cuts off your posts in RSS feeds when you use the <!––more––> tag.
I generally only use it on really long posts but when I do I’d still like the full post to be displayed in my […]
I finally got around to playing with some feed readers today and I must say I’m impressed. My experience with them in the past has never been good but the fact that my daily reading list has grown so big has forced me to start looking for a more efficient and streamlined way of getting through […]
Don’t get me wrong, I think MyBlogLog is great. I’ve met some cool people on there and without their service this blog wouldn’t have hit the ground running the way it has. But there are some things that frustrate the hell out of me.
The visual design needs a makeover.MyBlogLog’s looks betray its underlying usefullness. It seems to me that […]
