Query re e-mail subscriptions
November 30th 2006 00:44
Hey Jon,
Was wondering -- is there any way of telling how many people have e-mail subscriptions to a blog? And if not, could there be?
I suppose I'm asking more out of curiosity than anything else. This would be another stat that could indicate over time whether the quality of a blog is maintained, but I suppose it's more suggestive than meaningful.
Was wondering -- is there any way of telling how many people have e-mail subscriptions to a blog? And if not, could there be?
I suppose I'm asking more out of curiosity than anything else. This would be another stat that could indicate over time whether the quality of a blog is maintained, but I suppose it's more suggestive than meaningful.
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This is for e-mail subscriptions. I think Ahmed is right - hits to the RSS feed would be misleading, since most news readers check the feed every five/ten minutes.
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I don't know too much about RSS (i know it stands for 'really simple syndication').
Why would one choose RSS over email subscription or vice versa?
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If you have an email subscription you will be sent an e-mail whenever a new post is created.
Similarly, you will use a news reader to check the RSS feed for multiple sites. You will be alerted whenever the feed for a site changes - ie - a new post/article is created.
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I guess you'd choose RSS if you subscribe to LOTS of Blogs and you don't want your e-mail inbox to be battered with loads of e-mail notifications. Also, some RSS feeds contain the content of the whole post, which can be viewed in your news reader...
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