Yesterday Google introduced the retirement of the Google Readers RSS readers product.
I’ve tweeted just a little about this but thought it may be interesting to determine the response of visitors for this news. it appears a minimum of many people are worried (with 1000's signing this petition already).
For me personally it's annoying to get rid of the RSS readers which has explore my daily reading through of recent content on the internet – however what's of greater concern in my experience may be the impact it might have upon blog readerships.
Before I interviewed ProBlogger and dPS readers Google Readers was the #1 readers for signing up Nourishes among our visitors. While you will find a number of other options available and a lot of our visitors will without doubt change to another RSS readers I think that many will simply give on RSS.
Before I checked ProBlogger’s Google Statistics stats around 7.5% in our traffic was considered ‘Feedburner/Feed’ traffic. In no way nearly all our traffic – but significant (a lot more than originates from either Facebook).
While not every one of the 7.5% of traffic would be the consequence of Google Readers it’ll be interesting to determine the amount of it's once Google switch them back in This summer!
Would you use Google Readers? If that's the case are you going to stop reading through Nourishes or are you going to switch to a different readers (if that's the case, which)? Like a writer are you currently concerned that lots of your personal visitors is going to be lost because of the retirement of Google Readers?If you are concerned – what steps are you going to take to try and ensure visitors transition with other methods for following site?
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