Comments on: What is RSS? The Best Alternative to an RSS Feed (For Bloggers) in 2024

By: Rebecca Grace

Rebecca Grace — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:12:26 +0000

Hey, Ryan. What about hobby/personal bloggers who don’t have a commercial angle and aren’t trying to sell anything to their subscriber list? Any suggestions? I started out with a free Feedburner subscription widget on Blogger (back in the Dark Ages/heyday of RSS feeds) and took my subscriber list to Mailchimp when Feedburner went away. But my subscriber list exploded on Mailchimp — maybe the more prominent signup options? — and Mailchimp raised prices to where I really couldn’t justify creating and sharing content for free on the Internet and then PAYING to distribute that free content in a more convenient format to my readers. I get that it’s easy to lose track of a blogger you want to follow without an email subscription option, but I need a free or low cost option since I have zero desire to sell anything. I did try the Brevo service (formerly SendInBlue) but found their template and setup to be clunky and difficult to navigate, the emails it generated from my blogposts were glitchy and less professional looking than Mailchimp’s, and I think they might have been going into junk/spam folders because I lost a lot of subscribers during the time I was using Brevo. I’ve been getting emails from people that say “I’m not getting your emails anymore, can you please put me back on the list.” 🙁

By: Lorin Torres

Lorin Torres — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:20:13 +0000

Hi Ryan! Great article like always 🙂 I’ve been following your stuff for some time now and I have to say that I’ve learned a lot from you. So, Thank you! Now, here’s my question. When checking out Google Search Console, What am I supposed to do about everything on my site being doubled with an added “/feed” to the ending of everything? And how do I get rid of it? And should I keep RSS active, or turned on? Or can I just get rid of it completely? Or do you think it’s worth it to keep it on? At least for now? But mainly I’m trying to figure out what to do about GSC. I hope that makes sense. Let me know what you think whenever you have time. Thanks so much! Peace and Love <3~Lorin

By: Ryan Robinson

Ryan Robinson — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 18:28:41 +0000

In reply to Emmanuel Emmanuel.

Thanks, Emmanuel! 🙂

By: Emmanuel Emmanuel

Emmanuel Emmanuel — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 14:41:02 +0000

Thanks, Ryan for your awesome perspective on how email list building has replaced RSS.

Keep it up with the great work you are doing here.

By: Ryan Robinson

Ryan Robinson — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 22:58:22 +0000

In reply to Rob Steven Feifer..

Thanks, Rob!

By: Rob Steven Feifer.

Rob Steven Feifer. — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 19:13:59 +0000

The information you have shared with our community is priceless. Awesome Job.

By: Ryan Robinson

Ryan Robinson — Tue, 25 May 2021 18:57:11 +0000

In reply to Hope.

We could debate that one for hours! 😅

By: Hope

Hope — Mon, 24 May 2021 15:29:13 +0000

The best alternative to RSS is RSS, without question. No one wants to deal with a whole bunch of emails.

By: Ryan Robinson

Ryan Robinson — Wed, 20 May 2020 18:04:59 +0000

In reply to H. R. Kemp.

Nice! That’s something I hadn’t actually considered (Amazon author page), thanks for sharing.