Should I bother with RSS for my blog?

[Stanley]

I'm making a lazy attempt at launching a blog (http://www.stanleyshilov.com/) and I wanted to know if it's worth the time to implement RSS?

I'm using my own CMS so if I want to add RSS I'll need to configure it manually.
Are users more likely to come back if RSS is available?
I don't maintain any other blogs so it's a bit of a new area for me.

Also, if anyone wants to do a link exchange then let me know.
It's going to be a (mostly) technical blog with some random marketing ideas mixed in.

 

[ltn1dr]

From my experience, about 25% percent of the readers my blog have read it through like another RSS reader, so I think RSS is worth it and you should bother with it.

 

[Juicify]

Yes you should. And you should make pingback and trackback work too.

 

[hitzatak]

I have about 1000 uniques a day, and about 100 on the rss. it's a good idea.

 

[Stanley]

Yes you should. And you should make pingback and trackback work too.

What do those two do?
Isn't trackback the same thing as permanent urls?

I'll add RSS.

 

[DonAssaf]

Of course add RSS...you wont lose anything...RSS is important these days

 

[Juicify]

What do those two do?
Isn't trackback the same thing as permanent urls?

I'll add RSS.

Linkback - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It notifies you when some other blogger writes and links to your blog.
And you can use it to notify others. The blog site that gets notified get those trackback comments among the comments. They help you get more traffic when you blog about others blogs.

 

[Stanley]

oh okay. I don't really care about that, I don't plan to blog about other blogs and it doesn't matter to me if someone blogs about mine.
I'll add RSS though, I guess it's more important than I thought.

 

[Jenn]

I'm making a lazy attempt at launching a blog (Stanley Shilov » Good Things Come to Those Who Want) and I wanted to know if it's worth the time to implement RSS?

If you don't have a feed, you're missing out on opportunities for link building and traffic, including RSS directories and blog networks.

Also, since your blog covers technical subject matter, your readers will (hopefully) know what a feed is and expect you to have one.

 

[Agloco Hype]

If you don't have a feed, you're missing out on opportunities for link building and traffic, including RSS directories and blog networks.

Also, since your blog covers technical subject matter, your readers will (hopefully) know what a feed is and expect you to have one.

Very true, you can get into a lot more search directories with RSS and you'll be able to cash in on some more traffic, it might not turn out to be your #1 source of traffic but its still a good source to tap into.