Anyone who’s used an RSS feeds will no doubt say they are one of the best things since sliced bread. We’ve even got one for this blog.

The ability to subscribe to a site’s RSS feed using an RSS reader and and get it to tell me when it’s changed or updated, instead of remembering to visit that site again, is pretty cool, to say the least.

One thing that really annoys me about RSS feeds is when people either don’t update their RSS feed at all, or change the URL of the RSS feed without telling their audiences.

Not only are they loosing valuable subscribers, some of these people may never visit the site again, because according to their RSS subscription the site hasn’t been updated. Even though it clearly has been.

My message to anyone who runs a site with an RSS feed:

• Keep the RSS Feed updated
• Don’t change the URL without telling people!

On the RSS front, if anyone’s interested in measuring stats from their RSS feed, check out Feedburner, it’s a very cool app to measure your RSS traffic, which might prove how valuable your RSS subscribers really are.