Comments on: RSS Buttons for Your Blog

By: Mika

Mika — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:41:47 +0000

Hello there, how did you get that button so big button, I would like one for myself also ? Mine one is so small…..

Regards,

By: Michael Brito

Michael Brito — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:37:26 +0000

“far more likely to subscribe to a blog if they say a familiar graphic for their favorite RSS reader”

Lee – I totally agree with you. Ever since I started using your drop-down RSS tool, I have seen a nice uplift in my sibscribers. It went from 0 to like 6. lol.

Michael

By: Brian Zimmerman

Brian Zimmerman — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:08:29 +0000

Lee — good point you made about the various feed readers out there. Here’s FeedBurners input on web-based feed readers, “FeedBurner’s View of the Feed Market” (Feb ‘07) http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/02/feedburners_view_of_the_feed_m.php

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:14:00 +0000

We’ve been creating the separate page of RSS readers manually. One of the important benefits of our RSS button maker is that it doesn’t send readers to a third party web site.

By: Solomon Rothman

Solomon Rothman — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:40:04 +0000

Excellent! I been using that plug-in in all my latest wordpress installs. Congrats to you and Thomas McMahon for making them available. I hope you’ve attracted a fair amount of links for that effort.

If I was going to request something though, it would be to add a “more link” of some type which would go a page or perhaps an ajax popup that contained a huge list of all the feedreader buttons, but I don’t want the links to count as outbound on each page (like a drop down menu does) or have to use rel=”nofollow” incorrectly. I’m probably going to have to manually create this unless someone knows of an automated solution that DOESN’T run through a third party website (I’ve seen a few of those running around)

By: Chris Dohman

Chris Dohman — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:38:33 +0000

I think you are making a good point here Lee. I always look in the address/url bar for the dandy orange rss feed graphic to see if a feed is available but it makes sense that not all people look there. A well placed rss graphic or 2 with a “subscribe to this feed” link can only help.

Looks like I should make my rss links more prominent. Thanks for the tip!

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:14:52 +0000

Solomon, the Chicklet Creator and the RSS Button tool are pretty much the same thing. Both were made by TopRank’s Thomas McMahon.

By: Solomon Rothman

Solomon Rothman — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:28:13 +0000

If you’re using wordpress I really like the Chicklet Creator Plug-in http://www.twistermc.com/shake/RSS-index.php
it automatically gives you a choice of rss feed buttons and individual reader buttons, although since each one is a link out I would limit how many you turn on. As an alternative to creating a page with a list of feedreader subscribe buttons, I like to pick a few important ones (google, yahoo, bloglines etc) to display below a subscribe heading the side bar. Maybe I’ll also add a more link that includes a giant list of feed readers, actually I ust put that on my to do list this weekend.

As an aside, did you get a chance to check out my exchange with famous marketer Seth Godin? I think you’ll find it interesting. He gave some bad SEO advice in his blog, I wrote about it (got published on webpronews) and he responded. I need to write a follow-up because that post sparked a bunch of responses including one from Mike Levin of HitTail, who also published some things I need to address.

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:36:05 +0000

Awesome tool, it is true that many blogs don’t have the RSS feed buttons in places that are easy to find.