Has RSS paid off for you?

Just curious if anyone offering RSS feeds on your sites have seen a major increase in traffic from the feeds?

thanks
~jim~

 

For me, without a doubt RSS has been a booster. The only question in my mind is what works better, syndicating only article titles, title + extracts or whole posts?

I do the whole post, as my readers gave me feedback that anything less alientaed them. The RSS ads from Kanoodle have been a bust, though. Once my readership is high enough, I'll try Google's RSS ads.

 

I haven't try it but I am looking to use Google rss to.

 

i dont know exactly how many human readers read my feed. But when i check my logs, quite a lot of rss-readers read it.

Its difficult to get an exact count.

 

^ That's my curiosity too..I would like to know how many subscribers I have..

As for the RSS feeds, yes, I do see an increase in traffic... Not major but significant..

 

Seth Godin holds that in terms of marketing vehicles, RSS is displacing Newsletters and marketers need to get RSS savy or become dinosaurs.

I may run RSS, but I'm still working toward "savy".