RSS Feeds for Sports
After reading a post over at Mashable regarding why more people aren’t using RSS feeds we started thinking about it and they are right. RSS is marketed horribly though we guess no one actually makes money off the RSS brand so that is probably the reason. For those of you that don’t know RSS stands for really simple syndication. Here is some background information and how to use it. RSS can easily save hours a week.
We think for sports fans RSS feeds can be extraordinarily important. For those of us that go to multiple sports websites a day and check up on our teams there is no reason not to subscribe to our teams feed whether it be in Google Reader, Google Homepage, My Yahoo, or the 100s of other readers out there. It is real easy to do and that is why we have decided to change our RSS button to an Easy RSS Button so if you haven’t subscribed to our feed go ahead and do it. We suggest all bloggers explain their RSS feeds and how they work. If you are worried about people not coming to your site just make sure you use a feed that you can monetize like feedburner. Here is ranking of the top 10 feeds in Google Reader for the US and how many subscribers they have.
1. 1,652,082 subscribers Espn.com: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/news
2. 740,632 subscribers Cnnsi.com: http://rss.cnn.com/rss/si_topstories.rss
3. 723,117 subscribers Espn.com - NFL: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/nfl/news
4. 639,085 subscribers Espn.com - MLB: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/mlb/news
5. 638,097 subscribers Espn.com - College Football: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/ncf/news
6. 625,727 subscribers Foxsports.com: http://msn.foxsports.com/feedout/syndicatedContent?categoryId=0
7. 582,488 subscribers Espn.com - NBA: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/nba/news
8. 514,257 subscribers Espn.com - Mens College Bball: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/ncb/news
9. 118,340 subscribers Espn.com - Bill Simmons: http://sports.espn.go.com/keyword/search?searchString=bill_simmons&feed=rss&src=rss&rT=sports
10. 40,636 subscribers CBSSports.com: http://cbs.sportsline.com/partners/feeds/rss/home_news
