RSS feeds poll – Korwel Photography

I was wondering already for a while about how many people are reading the blog, and how many people are subscribing to RRS feed (meaning even if they don’t regularly read, at least it lends in their Inboxes, which for me is still better then opening the web page from time to time). I am not alone there, as Brian Auer was recently pondering on full vs truncated feed in context of getting people to the page. Yes, it takes a lot of time and energy to build and improve the web page, and although I am going to continue working on it, I would prefer to have people subscribe, and this is also how I am treating my favorite blogs. They are in my RRS feeder, and unless they post a movie, I will go for years without ever going to the web page again (after initial visit to get RRS address that is :) ). And just to throw a thought on Brian’s dilemma, the blogs with truncated posts in RRS feed are quickly deleted from my reader, and unless the person tweets about every post, they are quickly forgotten.
In any case, I would be interested in how you, my reader, are reading this blog, so here is the simple poll for you.

Jessica says:

January 25, 2010 at 5:08 pm

If you haven’t already, you should check out Google analytics, it counts all the visits to your site. In addition, I subscribe to my own blog in Google Reader, and by clicking on the Details button I can see how many people are subscribing to my blog at any given time.

Izabela says:

January 25, 2010 at 5:47 pm

Thanks for the advice! I will look into it.

Regine says:

January 31, 2010 at 4:04 am

Hey Iza, not sure how this RSS thing works – but I (proudly) managed to put an email subscription link on my blog (in case people want to read the maybe monthly post…).
Anyway, I’m pretty much reading your blog on a daily to twice a week-basis, even without the RSS feed… so it’s not really that important for me.
– Regine

January 31, 2010 at 11:45 am

There are some RRS clients or programs, where you put the RSS feed address, and whenever the new post comes, it is downloaded just like an e-mail. I am using same software as for my e-mail (Thunderbird). Your blog has it, I think it comes by default, so I added it to my list of blogs right when you started. I don’t need to monitor you blog and I still know when you write something new. Like yesterday ;).