Jake’s Life

ProBlogger recently smacked me upside the head with a marvel idea: the “Vanity folder.” Not the folder on my hard drive with pictures of me, but a folder in my RSS reader that is all about me.

Darren outlines that having such a folder is important to your blogging methods to help strengthen networking ties to other bloggers, track the success and (hopefully) widespread reading/posting of your blog, as well as finding those who decide to be less than creative and take your work. He details how to create a vanity folder by subscribing to RSS feeds of search terms you dictate which means that essentially when someone posts about your blog (or a link to it or any content you’ve posted) you know as quick as your feed reader aggregates. I usually Google my full name, my blog name, and URL rarely, but only because I like seeing what is on my background and may come out in my career field. I never actually thought of subscribing to these searches.

Reasons to Have a Vanity Folder In Your News Aggregator via ProBlogger.