Jakew
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Make your RSS link real obvious - please

Wednesday, 12 November 2008 12:27 by jakew

Followed a link from InstaPundit to the Speculist.  I've been over there a number of times in the past so I decided that I'd add their feed to my google reader.  Where is the link?  I'm looking around for that stupid Orange box or something telling me 'RSS here!'.  I knew it would be over on the margin.  Eventually I found it in small type in among all the other crap.  What a pain.

I know there is a lot of stuff going on about how Twitter is killing blogging - but seriously - RSS still rewls.  I rarely actually go to web-sites any more.  I read their stuff via the feed.

I don't mind ads placed in your RSS feed.  I do mind RSS feeds with partial posts though - SEO Book's RSS feed is only partial, guess whose blog doesnt get read by me?

Anyway - for such an important feature of blogging - it really ought to be made easy to find on your blog so people can subscribe.  Just make it a big orange square so they'll know where to click.

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