Scared away
I have a feeling that the del.icio.us links in my feed is the cause for the huge drop in my subscriber count. Please please do let me know if you would prefer them out. I'm going to remove them now just to be safe, and maybe I'll offer two versions of the feed in the future. Thanks in advance.
Personally, I didn't mind the extra link traffic. I can imagine why subscribers might leave though. I think it would probably be best to offer feed options for del.icio.us. I personally find del.icio.us integration somewhat of a distration on sites which don't post original content regularly. When you see unread items for a specific blog. When you open the feed to find links, it can be a turn-off.
Don't know about the others, but I enjoy the links. Although for some reason my RSS reader keeps duping my feeds, so I get to look through them twice before realizing I've seen them before.
I think my mistake was thinking that content which is good as a part of my site would be good as part of my feed. I realized yesterday that it must have been annoying when I added about 20 links to my del.icio.us account. Considering I add links almost everyday and I only blog every few days, I was doing more reblogging than original writing. Big mistake. I just hope my numbers can go back up. For the time being I think I'll just add the del.icio.us feed link as a separate option. Live and learn!
I don't like the links added to the feed. if it was my interest I can do it directly from del.icio.us
Well Rogel, enjoy the link free feed!
I love the deliscious links in the feed. Its a nice addition to the content that gets reguarly updated. And most days, it relates to what I've been researching, reading about, or its beneficial to that process. Christian, you do an awesome job with the blog…keep it up man!
Well thanks man, I still gotta see if I can do feed + links… ugh, I'm too busy right now, but I'll get around to it… for now let me know if you are allright with having the two feeds separated
Make three separate feeds - blog entries, del.icio.us links, and the whole shebang.
Heck, you could make nine with different combinations of blog entries, del.icio.us links, and sideblog entries!
LOL, I've been thinking about that actually… I'm thinking a separate page for all the alternative feeds would be a good idea
I don't mind the delicious links in the feed, but it would certainly be better if you offered a few different feeds as Noah said.
I think that Noah is right on the money