Oh yes, it definitely is beneficial on a new site. Why? It enables your new visitors to subscribe to your blog in order to quickly access your new posts. Quick access is provided via an RSS reader or by an email notification of each new blog post you publish. Anything that will make it easier for your readers to join the conversation of your blog is beneficial.
They are more likely to become loyal readers and visit frequently. They are ready to listen to what you have to say and, therefore, decide to implement a way to come back again and again. Hopefully they will also contribute their own comments and stimulate the conversation, too.
One way to look at this is to view an RSS reader as a map to your blog so your business associates, colleagues, family, friends and acquaintances can visit your internet home aka your blog on the internet. When they’re ready to go visit your blog they only need to navigate to their reader.
Once there they can see the headlines and excerpts of updated posts from all of your blog and their other RSS subscriptions. They can quickly access the full post of the headlines or excerpts that grab their attention by simply clicking on the feed. For more in-depth information about RSS feeds, feed agregators, and feed readers see Wikipedia’s entry about agregators.
So, is your blog setup and ready for your visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed yet? Not sure how to set it up? Subscribe to our RSS feed so you can quickly access our blog through your RSS reader to find out how to set up your RSS feed in an upcoming post next week.
