Monday, I told you who I ping via the Search Engine Roundtable, when I update my blog entries. Today, I figured I share a bit more, by telling you which FeedFlares I opt to use via FeedBurner on my feeds.
First, was is FeedBurner? FeedBurner is the company I use to manage the RSS feeds for the Search Engine Roundtable. They not only do they provide the rss feeds and host them, they provide detailed stats on the feeds, they manage my RSS ads (and pay well) and they give me the ability to add FeedFlares easily.
What are FeedFlares? FeedFlares is FeedBurner's name for the ability to add links to 3rd party tools that help build communication and interactivity into your content. For example, I have a del.icio.us link on my blog entries at the Search Engine Roundtable. del.icio.us is basically a online bookmarking service. New entries automatically have this link, via a FeedFlare, that enable my readers to easily, with one click, bookmark the blog entries I write.
You see, above is a picture of the del.icio.us feedflare on my site. If you click on the "Save to del.icio.us" link, it will automatically fill in the blog entry's URL, description (uses the title) and then lets you enter in tags and notes, if you like. After you save the bookmark at del.icio.us, it then takes you back to the blog entry. It speeds things up for my readers and also shows you blog entries that have been tagged, as you can see from the image directly below the top one.
So which FeedFlares do I use?
On my feeds, I use:
- Email this
- Digg This!
- Add to Technorati Favorites!
- Advertise Here
- Save to del.icio.us
- Stumble It! - Danny just created the StumbleUpon FeedFlare
On my site, I use the follow FeedFlares (yes, FeedBurner allows you to add it to both your feed and your site):
- Email this
- Digg This!
- Subscribe to this feed
- Save to del.icio.us
- Stumble It!
Comments
I'm torn. All that flare may pay off for you, but I have developed flare-blindness on SE Roundtable (and SEL), and the sheer number of flare things makes it a real pain when I'm reading SER/SEL posts on my phone in Google Reader.
Posted by: Matt Cutts | January 31, 2007 6:14 PM
Right, that is the problem. As a blogger, you do not want the flares getting in the way of the content. So you put them in a place that is not so visible. Which may help increase the "flare-blindnes."
What to do, what to do...
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | January 31, 2007 6:34 PM
I should add, that today, I told Danny to add Feed Flares to SEL. He told me, they are there already.
So I also have "flare-blindnes" on SEL. :-)
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | January 31, 2007 6:37 PM