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Thursday

Let Readers Have the Full Post

Syndicating your RSS feed to only a Sniplet may Sound like a Good Idea but it is not because you may be Missing out.This is Because Many People Who a Reading it in Something Like Google Reader Will Skip Past it because other Feeds in there Have Photos and It Happens that the Reader scrolls Past without Seeing your content.

I tried setting my Feed to Short Before and Noticed Very Low Click through as the Readers, Do not See what the Post is Really about and Unless you have a Very Good Headline your Feed will Go unnoticed. When you Use an rss feed creator like feedburner and then set it up in your blogspot blog make sure you set you feed to full because maybe people only like to Read your Blog in a Feed Reader rather than Going to your Home Page. If you are Worried about your income you have to Remember that most returning Visitors will not click it's a Fact most Earnings From Ad Networks Come from New Visitors.

The point Being that your content will go unread and you may loose subscribers as they will think maybe you are trying to trick them into Visiting which you basically are Doing. But most People will Visit your Blog anyway if the Post Looks Interesting Enough in the Rss Reader.

Labels: Blogger, Feed Readers, FeedBurner, Google, Google Reader

Sunday

Adding Interaction to your Blog

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Some of you may have noticed that I am Now using a different commenting system other than the default blogger comments. This is because of the interactivity on the site disquss is a brilliant tool for blogs. It has voting ratings and reply to comments also it must be good because sites like mashable use it.It's just a great plugin for any blog wishing to get away from the boring blogger commenting system.

And it very easy to install as they do all the work for you sing up for a Disquss account here they install the code for you you upload your template so they do the tricky bit and after they have changed your template to use disquss just copy and paste the tweaked template.

Then you have an option in the to put your comments to feed flare an optimized function in feedburner.Go to your feed burner account and select optimize feed flare places a simple footer at the bottom of your content allowing your blog to be better networked and increasing your traffic within time.

Only for I installed Disquss I would have never thought of using this as feedburner feature which I had been missing out on.the code is quite easy to install and you will get all the information you need on both sites.Giving you a more interactive and networked Blog that is better for everyone.And will really help starting your own business because of a linked and networked blog is an important part as much as business writing is.