Increase blog Subscriptions with RSS

On the topic of RSS life, three or four years on and off people always mention that the popularity of the reader has died, and recently there are some

1. Object-oriented: between computers. implemented through XML formatting.

2. Purpose: Information synchronization or transmission. Implemented by timing or event updates.

3, way: through simple semantics. Described by different fields of XML.

RSS is a never into the popular vision of the concept of the web, so far, almost no RSS has been the pursuit of large-scale, but sometimes hear the RSS was discarded by the user voice. Why is RSS tepid? Is it a birth defect or a late bloomer?

RSS as a content transfer tool between machines, when used directly in the information aggregation of the reader, to solve the decentralized site information integration problem, saving the reader to find the time of each site. But in the era of information fragmentation, there are more important things than simple information aggregation: How much information is filtered (information gatekeeper)? Can be accurately transmitted to http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/8881.html "> Target users (Communication issues)?" Can the user respond accurately (interpreting the problem)? Can you be trustworthy (community credit issues)? If these problems depend on the machine to solve, the type of information can only be transmitted on the basis of text symbols will be powerless, the machine needs to understand the content of the information, the value of the semantic network to appear.

RSS is a semantic output tool, RSS superset (or parent set) XML can also be used as a semantic bearer tool, through machine understanding semantics and user behavior, can replace people (or part of the work of people). The machine replaces the person to process the information, has several advantages:

Higher efficiency. With the rising cost of human resources, efficiency can solve more problems, and the efficiency of machines can call for tens of thousands of workers.

More just. Editors as the gatekeepers of information, their individual or collective (unit), easy to be affected by commercial interests, and make unfair recommendations, the use of machines to replace people, the latent rules of the problem can be partially avoided.

satisfy more personalities. With the information from the media into all aspects of people's lives, the traditional human editors to choose the recommended way of information can not meet the user's rapid growth of personalized needs, some only the information required by individuals, machines to replace people to serve more reasonable.

Of course, RSS is not the ultimate way to communicate semantics, but in the initial stage of machine intelligence, RSS can promote the evolution of symbolic text to semantics, which is just like vertical search is not the ultimate form of search, but it can promote the search to more meet the needs of people in the direction of progress, classification and index itself is a limited expression of semantics.

When people put RSS as a simple aggregation tool for readers, the feeling of chicken ribs is raw, but RSS is innocent. When the search engine no longer relies on spiders (spider) to crawl the page, but the site side according to the predetermined format to the search engine to submit the semantic information index, the search engine output will not just simple symbolic text, and become vivid, semantic and contextual relevance will guide the spread of Internet information to in-depth, And their carrier is the RSS hyper-set of XML, over the past few years, XML has become the machine before the necessary language to express the meaning.

From the point of view of communication, the purpose of semantics is to make the information accurately spread, as I said before from Twitter to SNS message mechanism, SNS and Twitter value is also to let information more accurate dissemination, thus, information accuracy in the current is in many different ways to achieve datong.

Semantics to make existing services feel more and more human, rather than constantly adding new services, let us increasingly move into the semantic internet age.

First look at the beginning of April 21, to today almost 1.5 months of appearance, make a simple summary, but also to friends to share some practical experience, if you feel useful, may wish to support more. A total of 335 articles, Baidu included 179, Google included 660, Yahoo included 268,PR for 1,alexa ranked 1.42 million, blog subscriptions number 78, the current day IP stability in more than 400 (51.la monitoring data). Do first look at this site, I care about the thing is IP,PV, subscribe number, Pr,alexa rankings, search engine included, update the number and content of articles. The most important thing is actually the article, IP and subscription number. The following specifically around how to increase the number of RSS Subscriptions blog to talk about, are personal combat experience.

1, to ensure that you have a feed in the Feedsky and add code to the blog, in a prominent position on the home page to provide RSS subscription icon, provide a subscription portal, select the full text output and provide mail subscriptions. First look at the blog home icon is more attractive, for their own separate design, and in the first page has 2 display.

2, explore the subscription source website and RSS reader. It is best to register an account on each subscription platform and subscribe to your blog, to figure out how others are subscribing to their blogs from the platform. Actually this is very useful. Take the fresh fruit to say, before I did this kind of operation, in the Fruit Net Subscription Center all channels inside can not find my blog, let alone others to subscribe me. Register your subscription and remember to recommend, and add the tag, as much as possible to add their own blog content related keywords. After this operation, I was in the front 3 pages, and every day there will be new subscriptions added. There are nine points in the watercress, I add at the bottom of a single article recommended to nine points of code, June 5 There is also an article – (Russian rock memorabilia, intriguing stone art) by 14 people recommended, the results on the nine points of interest on the channel's homepage, not only brought a lot of IP, but also increased the number of blog subscriptions.

3, if you have some well-known blog friends, do not let them help you write an article in the blog, recommend subscribe to your blog. I have done this, gadgets subscribe to the number of nearly 40,000 in the industry has been a small reputation. Prepared an article for him – can eat Eva and wall, at the end there are obvious prompts to subscribe to see the blog, this effect is very good, the first day from Google to more than 20 subscriptions, and daily increase speed is very fast. However, if you do not have such a good network of contacts, if there is a budget, you can find some well-known blog to talk about, basically 2001 is enough.

Finally, in addition to these 3 points, in fact, there are many details. For example, whether you update the article every day, whether the article is attractive, and other blog content is different and so on. Take my first look, the main fun, design, life, but I than other interesting blog more than a lot of content, such as music, photography, essays and so on, and the quality of the picture requirements are high, the article updated also fast, so is the reader subscribe to the important reason for the blog. We look forward to a total growth.

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