What I don’t know about the syndication of content could fill something, but just what I also don’t know because that’s one of those unknown unknowns. Recently I have been talking with a friend about certain statistics that might help guide her in making her blog better serve its purpose. I find I’m always a touch reluctant to venture outside my comfort zone. Nonetheless I set out this morning to explore one of the options available, namely FeedBurner, which is now well within the Google family.
I have now burned my feeds for the two blogs that I use. You can see a new “Subscribe in a reader” link at the top of this blog. That takes you to the FeedBurner feed. If you are a regular reader of this blog (I’m sure I have at least two – thanks, Mom!) I would encourage you to update the feed now.
As I understand it, the old feed continues to work but the new feed will provide me with much more statistical goodness. Eventually this may lead to such developments as search engine optimization which I’m sure has much to recommend it. Or at least a few more blog posts on technical topics I am struggling single-handedly (but with the aid of a well-optimized search engine) to learn.
Since I am unlikely to ever write anything here that would set the world on fire, I very much doubt I would need the above information to aid monetization (dread word!) of this content. But maybe my friend will become a prolific and well-read blogger. In which case I would at least like to be able to advise her soundly (even if that advice were to find a more competent adviser).