Email and RSS Subscribing: Pitfalls for Bloggers and Readers

While we need to give readers as many ways to access our content as possible (including RSS) there are a few issues worth considering as a blogger and reader.

My biggest hassle with my followers who subscribe through email, is that they occasionally receive a “misfire” if I hit the publish button too early, which is ridiculously easy to do! The other worrying problem is that by only reading the email, they may never visit the actual blog. That means they miss special offers and announcements in banners, links to additional resources on side bars and feature pages go unseen. In other words: for a blog which shares writing resources: readers can miss out on additional content.

Personally, I like to use email for blogs I just don’t want to miss, but I hate it when I have to still visit the blog for the full post as only a teaser is sent, but it does get me to the blog! RSS feed has the same disadvantages in keeping me away from blogs as email does, but I have stopped using it since Apple removed it from Apple Mail and the convenience was lost.

Today I accidentally scheduled a 2014 post on #journalchat as 2013 and it’s gone live. I quickly deleted the post on Twitter, Google Plus and Facebook, however, for those of you who follow by email, you have a post which leads to a dead link. My apologies for the mishap. I will re-schedule that post to go out properly in 2014. In the meantime, you can catch the post on Write Your Life Story’s blog. Dawn’s service is for more than just memoir readers.

Thank you for being a subscriber, follower, RSS junkie or casually visiting reader. I appreciate you all.

Filed under: 2013, What's On