New Option for RSS Subscribers
One of the most popular ways to stay up to date with your favorite website is by subscribing to an RSS Feed for that particular website. New content that is published by your favorite websites can “delivered” to you by the means of an RSS feed. You subscribe to these RSS feeds via a news aggregator, one which I highly recommend would be Google Reader.
Previously I have been playing around with combining the RSS Feeds of my two blogs (tyleringram.com and tyleringramphotos.com) by utilizing Yahoo Pipes. Though I have had some issues when I first started to use it. I couldn’t get Yahoo Pipes to properly combine my two feeds. I couldn’t get the feeds to alternate by posting date either. Then I botched the whole thing up when I introduced the RSS feed here to my main blog as the only RSS Feed available.
Flickr Photo by: pandemia
I have resolved the issue and now I offer a fully working, combined RSS Feed of my two websites. I will not force it upon people, as some of you voiced your opinion about me doing so previously. I do now offer it as a separate RSS Feed you can subscribe to: Online World of Tyler Ingram.
By subscribing to the combined RSS feed it will delivery not only my blog posts from here, but my photography blog posts as they are published as well. This makes it easier for you if you are currently subscribed to both RSS Feeds separately.
The only downside I can see from having a combined RSS Feed is if you’re trying show off how many readers you have for the sites separately. Some people might opt for the combined RSS Feed, some might choose to stick to the two separate feeds. Of course there will be people who will only subscribe to one of the feeds, depending on what they find to be of interest more.
Then again, if I have say 200 readers for the combined RSS Feed, technically that would mean each site has 200 RSS Subscribers for each site too. That could be seen as being a positive thing.
** Update:
Laura suggested that I list out the feeds separately to make it easier to figure out which is which. I do agree and here they are:
The Combined RSS Feed for both sites
Email Updates
You can also opt-in to receive daily blog posts as they are published via email as well. Just click on the link mentioned above or the sidebar image of the RSS Icon and then enter your email address in the input box provided. You will be sent an email confirming you wish to subscribe via email. You can unsubscribe at any time and I will never give out your email address, nor will Feedburner (the 3rd party who deals with the emailing of RSS Feed posts). Though this only is offered for the Tyler Ingram dot com RSS feed.
Small Blog Change
As some of you might have noticed (or noticed by clicking on the above link), I have created a separate page to handle my RSS feed subscribing options. I find that having a separate page, as opposed to just a link, can help provide an easier way for people to stay up-to-date on a blog/website. It also allows for easier way to provide information on such subscribing options as well, as opposed to just having a link that says: Subscribe to the RSS Feed.
Do you find it hard to remember where you read something when its from RSS? The template of each site helps me locate my memory of a phrasing I want to reread….
I like the separate page for all the rss feed into. It looks a lot cleaner then having listing zillion feeds on your main page.
2oo.. nice I got about 20… but I’m not complaining
@Pearl – I tend not to forget where I read something. I do forget where I’ve commented though
If you’re using FireFox there is a GreaseMonkey script that will actually load the website when looking at the RSS Feed, if your using Google Reader. I’ll have to find the script and post about it I think.
Hey I’d like to subscribe to the combined feed. To be clear (because it’s not super clear in the paragraph above): the link provided in this post to the Online World of Tyler Ingram is the link for the combined feed?
I’d suggest changing that paragraph to list the link for the combined feed and the link for each individual site feed… 3 links total. It will make it easier for readers of this post.
Thanks Laura, I’ve made a quick update for the post.
You know how you can get automatic twitter updates? Whats the best way to get automatic rss feed updates? I always use Email Updates, but I get the emails at a set time, is there an option for rss to be notified automatically when a blog is updated?
God point about this, nice summary.