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Dr Pushkar
from Mumbai |

We all know abt RSS, email subscriptions.& other services like google friend connect, facebook connect to stay updated. But what are all the options in which your friends, fellow bloggers & other readers can track your blog? Which of them is the your favourite way & why so?

Edited
Reason: Apologies. Goofed up big time. Google connect automatically subscribes (counted as goog subscription) & collects 4 u d feeds of blogs u r following which can be accessed in google reader or blogger buzz section in Dashboard. Hence modified the topic.

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Adesh Sidhu
from Gurgaon |

No one has subscribed mine through RSS feeds :-(

Email option I have yet to enable in my blog.

Dr Pushkar
from Mumbai |

Need not worry, see above. Thanks for the response.

Healthy Living India
from Bombay |

I don't think it's a question of real vs not real subscription. Facebook, Google Connect and other tracking sites all use the RSS feed of the site.

It's not as if you can count them as subscribers ONLY if they use Feedburner. The idea is to offer as many different ways for them to reach your blog. And since all of them use the feed anyway, so long as you don't send your entire post onto the feeder, they will still reach your blog.

I follow the blogs of the people on my network via IB, which is also using the RSS feed. I also use Google Connect, Technorati and Firefox Live Bookmarks. Out of the close to 25-30 blogs I follow, I don't use Feedburner RSS/email for any of them. Does that mean I'm not  "really" a subscriber?

Dr Pushkar
from Mumbai |

You have hit the nail on the head, that's exactly what i intended to ask,how do bloggers really track their friend's blogs ? Goofed up a bit (see above). I too use the firefox live bookmarks. Also thanks for reminding about the technorati option.

Healthy Living India
from Bombay |

@Pushkar: Now replying to the modified topic....

I don't think I will be able to list out all the different options that people can follow/track blogs. So, will list out the ones that our blog offers: Feedburner feed and email, Technorati, Blogcatalog and Facebook Networked Blogs. In addition, our blog subscribers are using Firefox Live Bookmarks, Bloglines and Google Feedfetcher.

My favourite way to track blogs is FF Live Bookmarks. The most popular way for our subscribers to track our blog seems to be Facebook Networked Blogs (based on the numbers in each option).

Does this help? Answer your question?

leon
from kolkata |

what is facebook networked blogs ?

बालसुब्रमण्यम
from Ahmedabad |

पुष्कर, जितने अधिक हो सके, उतने ब्लोग एग्रिगेटर में अपने ब्लोग को जमा करा दें।

मैंने अपने हिंदी ब्लोगों को चिट्ठाजगत, ब्लोगवानी, नारद, ब्लोगरामा, इंडीब्लोगर आदि, आदि में जमा करके रखा है।

इससे जैसे ही मैं अपने ब्लोग में कोई पोस्ट लिखता हूं, ये सब उसकी सूचना अपने पृष्ठों में छाप देते हैं, जिससे कई लोगों तक उसकी जानकारी पहुंच जाती है।

आप भी ऐसा ही करें। इंडिब्लोग के अलावा, अंग्रेजी ब्लोग ब्लोगअड्डा, ब्लोगकैटलोग आदि में स्वीकार किए जाते हैं।

यदि blog aggregator के साथ गूगल सर्च करें, तो और भी ऐसे एग्रिगेटरों की जानकारी मिल जाएगी।

जहां तक आरएसस आदि का संबंध है, यदि आपका ब्लोग ब्लोगस्पोट में है, और आपने अपने ब्लोग की सेटिंग ठीक से की है, तो गूगल इन सबको अपने आप ही संभाल लेता है।

फीडबर्नर में भी अपने ब्लोग को जमा करा दें।

Dr Pushkar
from Mumbai |

@Healthy Living India -- Yes to an extent. You have listed plenty of options. I too am curious abt how Facebook networked blogs work. You missed the newsletter option. Can anyone tell me how do i setup a newsletter option on my blog. One more thing i want to know is, in blogger how to divide the feed categorywise like news agencies do ?(ex. yahoo sports news, yahoo world news etc)

@Balsubramaniam -- Thanks for reminding about those RSS Blog directories option.

Healthy Living India
from Bombay |

@ Pushkar and Leon: Networked Blogs is a Facebook application that allows your readers to follow your blog directly from Facebook. It's an RSS feeder that send your post/post summary to their FB account. The added advantage is that you can create a tab on your FB profile to promote your blog as well.

When you say newsletter, does that mean something like a weekly roundup of all your blog posts? In that case, change your Feedburner settings to send your blog only on Mondays or whichever day you want. That way, all email subscribers will only get a weekly newsletter.

For category wise feed on Blogger, check out: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/08/offer-rss-feeds-for-blogger-search.html. Wordpress has that option too and I believe it's simpler than Blogger.

Amit at Labnol is a blogger advice genius, you might also want to track Amanda Fazani and Problogger.

Dr Pushkar
from Mumbai |

@Healthy Living India -- Thanks for explaining the facebook thing. But i'm not so sure about ur explanation of weekly newsletter, coz most blogs offer both options subscribe via email (as & when there's a new post) & a weekly newsletter option. I do check both Labnol & Problogger periodically. didn't knew abt Amanda Fazani. Will also check out that post. Any idea if i break the feed, what will happen to my existing subscriber base.