Are you cluttering your feeds?

I am Ajay D’Souza. Some of you may be familiar with my work on my blog. I also run Techtites, where I focus on technology articles and news as well as all things in the blogging world. Thilak asked me to guest blog for him and I grabbed hold of this opportunity.

This post hopes to address something overlooked, but really important as it has direct bearing on your readers.

It took a while to get accepted as a means to catch your daily news, but feeds have today become the primary place that most readers look to catch the daily story. I for one, am subscribed to approximately 200 feeds (can’t promise I read all daily).

Over the past few months I have observed these feeds getting very cluttered. I can’t say I am not guilty of this as well.

Each post in the feed comes with a copyright notice, Feed Flare, advertisements and related posts. Some go so far as to have more than one advertisement. An end result is lots of additional content in your feed, especially this repeats for every post.

This isn’t too much of a problem when you have massive post content. However, once your extra material starts to overshadow your content for all your posts then you need to start to relook the situation.

Either cut down on all the extra matter, you can toy around and see which is the best option of them all, or alternatively start writing longer (and more meaningful) articles.

Do you consider yourself guilty of cluttering your feed? Do you read feeds which are cluttered?

Do you skip them or do you turn a blind eye to anything but the content?