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Readership trends

This is a first in a series of posts about readership trends segmented by country. The reports are based on the millions of subscribers being measured by our system and show on which days people read their feed articles and how likely they are to click on an article to read the full story or visit the main web site. This week: France.

Click here for the report. 

 

Friday, 14 November 2008

Related articles

Related content is a great way to expose readers to other articles from your feeds. The Mediafed system can automatically create related article links if you provide <category> tags for each article in your feed :

Related stories example 

Please contact support@mediafed.com if you would like to use this facility.

Thursday, 13 November 2008

Feed auto-discovery

It's amazing how many web sites don't advertise their feeds via auto-discovery code. This code alerts users to the fact that feeds are available from the site and lights up the feed icon in the likes of Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. More importantly, feed aggregators and directories scan site pages for these links. Try entering the address of a page with no auto-discovery code into Google Reader and you get nothing, submit a page with the code and Google Reader automatically detects the feed(s).

It's a win-win feature (unless you want to keep your content a secret of course).

Click here for information on how to deploy it.

 

Thursday, 13 November 2008