Gauravonomics Blog

Quick Summary: Find out three different ways to share your Google Reader feeds with your readers.

I have 489 feeds on my Google Reader, and that would classify me as a rather heavy user. Even though I don’t read all of them on a daily basis, I manage to read quite a few under my must-read tag.

Over time, I have toyed with various ways of sharing these feeds with my readers. Sometimes, I have shared my OPML file with my friends. Usually, I have satisfied myself with adding a clip of my Google Reader Shared Items on my sidebar.

Now, Google has made it easy for me to share my feeds with you by allowing me to convert my Google Reader feed subscriptions into a blogroll -

As a heavy user of Google Reader, I figured that the best way to get a blogroll would be to have Reader generate it for me, based on my subscriptions.

Head over to the “Tags” section on the settings page, make one of the tags you use for subscriptions public, and click on “add a blogroll to your site.” (Google Reader Blog)

In the post-Sanjaya Malakar world, my Shyamali Malakar search traffic has dried up and my page views have dropped to half of what they were a month ago. As a result, my Google Adsense revenue now approximates to zero every day.

I have said before that it doesn’t make sense to use Adsense if your blog gets less than a thousand pageviews per day. I have also said before that most non-tech bloggers should focus on making money because of their blog rather than from it.

I have decided to take my own advice now and remove all advertising from my blog until I find a way to increase my pageviews to more than thousand per day.

This is also a cautionary tale for bloggers who want to make quick money off blogging. My blog is ranked within the top 17,000 on Technorati (in terms of linkbacks in the last 6 months) and about 3,00,000 on Alexa (in terms of average pageviews in the last 3 months), and still I’m not making enough money to make it worthwhile for me to use Adsense. It’s not likely to be any easier for you either.

Alistor Cameron, who calls himself a Blogologist, has put together a tongue-in-cheek compilation of must-do blogging tips offered by the million must-read blogging experts we must have on our feed readers.

My favorite, however, is #22 (or is it #1) -

You should — on a scheduled and regular basis — be standing apart (completely dispassionately) from your blogging to gain a sense of balance and perspective on your efforts, in order to be able to review and adjust your “workflow”, choice of tools, and approach. You will need to accommodate technological change, shifts in expectation of your readership, and the greater and greater need to cater to a Chinese readership, where the real money and traffic is.