Make Your Blog Easy To Subscribe To

A quick hint: if you want people to read your writings on a regular basis make the link to your RSS or Atom feed dead simple to find. Somewhere that doesn’t require the user to scroll to see, uses the well known, industry-standard RSS icon that is freely available, and has the word “feed” in the link. I run into this problem often, especially with blogs hosted on Blogger or Blogspot and overly fancy WordPress themes that emphasize good looks (and mouseover events) instead of usability. For example, I just was reading a post from a blogger who has a really nice personal website, with a blog integrated into it. There’s absolutely no link to the feed anywhere. I searched the page …

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