Many bloggers already currently optimize their RSS feed to encourage feed discovery, post reading, or click-throughs back to site. But contextual feed readers like BlogRovr open up completely new possibilities for feed reader optimization.
What is Contextual Feed Reader Optimization?
I would define contextual feed reader optimization as optimizing your blog, RSS feed, and blog posts, so that your blog posts display to BlogRovr users when they browse contextually-relevant web pages.
Just to recap, BlogRovr is a feed reader that analyzes the webpage you are currently viewing, and then displays a list of relevant blog posts from feeds that you already subscribe to.
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When did feed reading become such a burden? I recently thought back to when RSS and syndication were brand new buzz words. When feed syndication was first introduced, supporters raved that RSS would save you time, right? Instead of navigating to 20 different websites to keep current on important news, RSS enabled important news to be syndicated directly to us.
And yes, subscribing to feeds increased my productivity - back when I only had 15 - 20 feed subscriptions. Now I have 87.
How many do you currently subscribe to? 50? 100? 200? Most people don’t have time to keep current with many more than that, right?
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