RSS Feeds (Really Simple Syndication)

[Brent Anderson]

Hello.


Considering that 67.2% of all statistics are made up on the spot,  
about 2% of your visitors will use your feed. =)

Seriously, the number of people subscribing to your feed will vary  
directly with who your audience is. Slashdot or Engadget are going to  
have a lot more subscribers than a site that provides content to the  
more technology-illiterate. RSS, however simple, is not something  
that a typical email/browser/word-processor user is going to know  
about, let alone use. It's like asking how many people subscribe to a  
newspaper? Responsible adults that want to be informed are your  
audience, not younger children or teenagers. If you want to get a  
message out to one of these audiences, then you need to change your  
delivery medium.

That being said, it would be wise to make your RSS feeds more  
intuitive than "RSS 2.0" or "ATOM 0.3" by labeling them "Subscribe to  
our news" or "Stay up to date on our latest products" and then, for  
the more technically savvy, labeling them with the feed type.

Thanks,
Brent Anderson
Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center

On Mar 1, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Viktoras Didziulis wrote:

> does anybody know what fraction of web surfers care to subscribe to  
> rss
> feeds ?
>
> Viktoras
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