I’m not new to blogging, but have been a closet blogger for long and never thought about blogging for money – the whole feed things puzzles me, as how do you as a blogger benefit from people reading your content away from your site?

For instance, I look at the post above, and, as do many, they don’t include all the advertising that surrounds it on your actual site when it comes down an RSS reader. And through Feedburner, for instance, they say “use this content on your site”.

How would advertisers be enticed if you had a huge subscriber list through RSS – would those who advertise on your site ever gain exposure from those subscriptions?

I apologise if my comment is a bit off the mark of the article, but it got me thinking.

If you go around with lots of women, other women will notice it and they will wonder what is the buzz all about, and they will want to check it out. Same for blogs and feed subscribers!

As my readership grows, it becomes much more time consuming to keep an eye on everything that my readers are interested in and it is one of my hopes for MyBlogLog that it will prove to be more useful than my RSS Reader.
If I can access a list of the blogs belonging to members of my community using an API, or just the blogs I have joined the community of, I could create 2 memes using Megite to see both what I am interested in specifically, and what my readers are interested in which can be different.

I try to respond to every comment – if I had Darren Rouse’s readership and number of comments, I am not sure that would be possible.

Slower growth by not gaining subscribers from social media can actually be a benefit.
Newbies to blogging can benefit from my content, because while they might not understand everything I write about immediately, they can always ask a question, or come back to it at a later date.

I could easily have grown my subscribers faster by writing different content, but then I would be writing the same content as everyone else.

I need to improve the longevity of my content from a reader’s perspective.

Your short answer was exactly what popped into my head when I first read Maki’s question. Comments, flare like Liz Strauss’ SOB badge, the MyBlogLog widget – all similar in that aspect. Which is one reason I don’t display my feed count, as whatever it might “prove”, it wouldn’t be that people should subscribe. :D

At the same time, I’ve noticed that many bloggers who surely must have high a high feed count, don’t display it. I can see their reasoning, because while feed count might denote popularity/authority, it doesn’t necessarily imply community – maybe even the opposite.

I think interactive memes like this are a great way to have a joint discussion on a specific topic. Hopefully readers from each of the blogs I tagged will intermingle among all of the blogs participating in the meme and some of them might decide to subscribe after reading the specific points stated by each blogger.

Yet another way to a massive subscriber list :)