to people. The easiest of these is to get people to subscribe to the RSS and also Email. Great Post! This is an excellent point. I've been blogging since 2000 and it has never once occurred to me that something so simple couple be the barrier to getting a subscription. I always assumed that readers, already overwhelmed (like I am) with overabundance of emails and spam (and who may not be as blessed as I am to have Gmail with it's amazing filtering capabilities) simply avoid subscribing because they don't want to have yet another email coming to their inbox. Time is precious and I try to understand that. But if internet ignorance is the cause, then I certainly don't want that to be a barrier. Awesome post, thanks for sharing! You are right about people not understanding the meanings of RSS let alone its benefits. In fact, people avoid the RSS button unless it says something other than that. Please write a blog on ideas for attracting people to the RSS button. Nice post, a good summary. However, I must add to the smart urls (generally on page optimization), like any other site look at how the SEs see your blog. For example I was wondering for quite some time why don't you use metatags at SEOmoz which causes this because of -is there a limit to links? I can't seem to get the second link to display, just click on the "repeat the search with the omitted results