To my subscribers

The one i'm going to write is more like a letter than a post. So the title should be like 'letter to my subscribers'. But I skipped that because it'd make the post more formal. Now there's something I want to say if you are subscribing to my blog through RSS feeds or email.

By default blogger publishes two feeds, one is atom (http://rajputro.blogspot.com/atom.xml) and the other is rss (http://rajputro.blogspot.com/rss.xml). According to functionality both feeds works the same. I'vent find any special advantage in any of them over the other. But a few days ago I discovered feedburner which burns an existing feed (i.e. subscribes the content of that feed), gives the feed a new name and adds some functionality to that feed. And for the added functionalities I decided to switch to feedburner. Now the new feed of this blog is (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Rajputro). The old one's will also be here since blogger will publish them automatically, but I'll use this one as the main feed. So if you are an existing rss/atom subscriber of this blog I request you to switch my feed to this one. If you are using bloglines to track feeds then sit back and relax, it's taken care of. So you may ask how you'll be benefited by subscribing to this new feed? Let me tell you them.

First, If I ever decide to switch blogs or switch to my own domain, there will be new feeds but you don't need to switch again because I'll burn that feed through this one. So you'll get the content without switching.

Secondly, If you are fond of social bookmarking, with this new feed you can directly digg, add to delicious, see the posts importance from technorati linkings and mail the post to someone else if you like the content.

Finally, Please do switch 'cause there are lot more features to come.

Now if you switch how will I be benefited? Let's see:

1. I'll get the statistics of visitors.

2. I can use the statistics to show off. Not only show off but also if someone stumbles upon this blog through search engine or some other way s/he can see how many people are subscribed to it.

3. If you socially bookmark any content that will surely give this blog some visibility on the blogosphere.

4. I don't need to use another service for email subscribtion, feedburner handles email subscription pretty well.

So if you are an email subscriber, you need to update too. Previously I've been using zookoda. But they've problems sending mails to hotmail. But feedburner works quite well with all the big names like yahoo, hotmail, gmail. So what you've to do is to look for the subscribtion form on the right sidebar and re-enter your email adress there and subscribe. You too will get the benefits like the feed subscribers.

If you have any problem understading, then comment here or mail me.


Sorry for the pain. And thanks a lot for staying with me and my blog.

Chao.

Filed Under : Feed, Bloglines, Feedburner.