Why Text linking to your Feed is important
I am one of the many people who browse the net with images disabled. I do this to reduce bandwidth usage.
Today I came across a site that I liked and wanted to subscribe to it’s feed. But could not as the site was using FeedBurner counter and did not load as I had disabled images.
Just think if this happens to your blog. You will be losing a potential subscriber. The way around this is to put a text link to your feed.
We do not want to lose any readers. Do we?
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Posted on June 3rd, 2006 | Category: Blogging | 14 Comments »
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Madhur Kapoor
June 3, 2006 at 1:19 pm
A very good idea John . I never thought bout it .
Steph
June 3, 2006 at 1:52 pm
Interesting. I would imagine that most web sites look broken with images disabled. Perhaps I aught to try that to see what type of experience it brings.
That said, I’ve always included a text link. Perhaps they will want to copy/paste the feed into their favorite news reader rather than using a web based service? One can’t be sure how visitors may want to use your feed, after all. Visitors are all about options.
~Steph
CypherHackz
June 3, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Thanks for the idea.
Cory
June 3, 2006 at 6:17 pm
too bad you use images to your feed
johntp
June 3, 2006 at 9:05 pm
I have text link to feed too
Cory
June 3, 2006 at 11:43 pm
o, okay, i didnt see it
alex
June 6, 2006 at 4:10 am
Why in the world would you disable images? Are you in a 3rd world country that doesn’t have any decent ISP’s?
johntp
June 6, 2006 at 4:29 am
I disable images to reduce bandwidth usage on my broadband connection.
alex
June 6, 2006 at 4:33 am
I guess I’m slow because I don’t understand why you would do that on broadband.
johntp
June 6, 2006 at 4:36 am
It’s because I have 1 GB bandwidth limit
Thilak
June 18, 2006 at 10:37 am
Yes, Thats a big problem. My Blog doesn’t show up text, if images are disabled.
Same Problem here
, So I use Onspeed to save Bandwidth.
Using Onspeed I can compress about 5 GB of data into 1 GB. Its simple great for Dataone users. Try it
johntp
June 18, 2006 at 10:16 pm
Is Onspeed freeware?
Thilak
June 18, 2006 at 11:21 pm
Not it isn’t a freeware. But still we can hack it to work !! without crack