It is definitely a useful metric to see how much you are reading certain feeds. Your 2-4 sweet spot fits what I've suggested to others to strive for (75 posts a month minimum to be in growth mode, but no more than 150/month because that leads to saturation and reader burn out mode)
And good to see you reading VTOR, Paul, hope you've enjoyed it :)
Just curious, are you still reading MakeYouGoHmm? The reason I ask isn't out of vanity, but because there was some trouble with one of the RSS feeds in some RSS readers which would have knocked the stats out but that blog has averages 3+ posts a day (75 last month exactly) over almost 4 years now. If you are then I wonder if the RSS problems didn't make it show up in your Google Reader (?). I don't use Google Reader that often so I'm going to have to check it out.
Problem should be fixed now though.
Paul OFlaherty
· 2 years ago
TD, I most definitely still have MakeYouGoHmm? on my reading list ;) I wouldn't be without it! :)
It is very strange that it hasn't appeared on my Google Reader Trends for the top 40 most prolific posters of the past 30 days.
I'll have to look in to that!
TDavid
· 2 years ago
Thanks Paul, I have been playing around with the new Google Reader with offline functionality. I like the keyboard functions to cycle through posts. I've been getting some offline sync errors like you mentioned in another post. My current RSS reading solution kind of falls apart (some go into my Pocket PC) when I go into offline mode, so I might switch to Google Reader for a little while and see how that works out.
I like the trends thing though, again, that's handy info for managing the feed reading.
Davak
· 2 years ago
It brings a happy, little tear to my eye to see our tech-recipes site listed. Thanks for the honor.
Considering that our articles are all-over-the-place in interests, I'm impressed with the >60% read rate.
I also completely agree with your theory. There are several blogs that I never end up reading because the traffic is too high. I keep up for a while... but before long I am way behind and I just end up marking the whole feed read.
There is definitely a sweet spot.
Chris Pirillo
· 2 years ago
People still subscribe to RSS!?!? Really? :)
dan
· 2 years ago
Actually, you can see my readers doing the same thing, If I hit above 7 entries, my readership drops way off, if I stick at 4 or 5, I hit a sweet spot, where I get good traffic coming in from interested people. If you want the stats, give me a shout, I'll share.
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And good to see you reading VTOR, Paul, hope you've enjoyed it :)
Just curious, are you still reading MakeYouGoHmm? The reason I ask isn't out of vanity, but because there was some trouble with one of the RSS feeds in some RSS readers which would have knocked the stats out but that blog has averages 3+ posts a day (75 last month exactly) over almost 4 years now. If you are then I wonder if the RSS problems didn't make it show up in your Google Reader (?). I don't use Google Reader that often so I'm going to have to check it out.
Problem should be fixed now though.
It is very strange that it hasn't appeared on my Google Reader Trends for the top 40 most prolific posters of the past 30 days.
I'll have to look in to that!
I like the trends thing though, again, that's handy info for managing the feed reading.
Considering that our articles are all-over-the-place in interests, I'm impressed with the >60% read rate.
I also completely agree with your theory. There are several blogs that I never end up reading because the traffic is too high. I keep up for a while... but before long I am way behind and I just end up marking the whole feed read.
There is definitely a sweet spot.