Do You Subscribe to Your Own Blog

November 5th, 2007 by Michael Gray in Blogging


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Seems a silly question to ask but I can’t believe that the people who run Trendspotting are subscribed to their blog and haven’t yet noticed that their blog is published without a title or haven’t done anything about it

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14 Responses to “Do You Subscribe to Your Own Blog”

  1. Patrick Altoft Says:

    I make a point of reading every post I make via a feed reader straight away just to check it.

  2. Barry Schwartz Says:

    Michael, we all know you subscribe to your blog not just once… ;-)

  3. gamermk Says:

    I definitely subscribe to my own blog for the reason Patrick has stated. I also subscribe to the comments on my blog too to keep tabs on it.

  4. Jonathan Dingman Says:

    Actually, I definitely do too.

    I do it just to make sure it looks okay to everyone else.

    Not subscribing to your site is like creating a website and hoping it looks good without ever previewing it for the public!

  5. Michael Gray Says:

    @barry i’m just double checking ;-)

  6. Erik Karey Says:

    Yes I do subscribe to my own feed to make sure things look right and to make sure it’s making it to the readers. It can’t hurt to subscribe to it.

  7. Michael Martine Says:

    I think this is the new version of Dreamweaver’s “Untitled Document” web page titles (which are still everywhere — google “untitled document” and be amazed).

    Of course I subscribe to my own blog. How am I supposed to know how it looks to subscribers? And isn’t that terribly important?

  8. dude Says:

    yes barry I do

  9. lory Says:

    I supposed that the blog without title couldn’t attract readers for it would be “inundated” in the network。

  10. Wayne Smallman Says:

    There’s two of managing my ‘blog; I write while Kate handles the marketing.

    She’s also the one who subscribes to the ‘blog and looks out for the oddities, like double posts, missing posts, bad links et cetera.

  11. Gizmo Says:

    I sure do! It was the first thing I did.

  12. Cecilia Says:

    Is there supposed to be value to subscribing to your own blog? Perhaps I’m lost. . .

  13. James Says:

    I haven’t actually thought of subscribing to my own blog until now, kinda stupid of me really. When I looked at it I noticed how I had Link Splicer enabled and thought it looked crap in the reader so have removed it. I think I need to change the blog title as it looks pretty crap in my reader too. I will defiantly keep an eye on the way it looks from now.

  14. Loretta Says:

    I totally subscribe to my own blogs. I like to see how things look in the feedreader for feed subscribers, and I’m often surprised at how different it looks than the on the page version.