The feed is one of the most important things in a blog, through it the people can follow you and get the lastest post of your blog without visiting it. What if you think about it, what can the bloggers get from it? I mean, what are the benefits that you can get from your own blog’s feed? First of all, you don’t subscribe to your own feed, unless you want to test a plugin to display a kind of copyright (such the RSS Footer plugin) or to check how your images are being displayed.

Really, there is not another profit you can get from your own feed, apparently. The last week I found a powerful and sweet service which can give you many useful statistics from your feed.

With AideRSS you can score, filter and track the performance of any RSS feed.This means that you can spy other bloggers’ feed if you want , so be careful. Everything is possible thanks to the PostRank™, which is a scoring system that they have developed to rank each article on relevance and reaction. It is a core part of the AideRSS engine that works to ensure that this digital assistant is helping you to tame the RSS beast and keep your news stream manageable.

Let’s go to the best part, I recorded a video tutorial but I have problems by encoding it so let’s do it with images:

Step 1. Once you are in the homepage, type the feed you want to analyze on the bar and click Analyze.

Step 2. You will be redirected to the main panel. Over there you can find the information related to the latest posts on the feed you are analyzing. You will find the best info by clicking TOP 20.

Step 3. There you will find the information related to the top 20 posts on the blog.

The information presented here can help you to determine what worked for you in the past, and with this you can have a hint of what kind of content you should write in future posts. Something particular I noticed was the title of 8 of those 20 top posts were questions, giving me the clue that people like that kind of posts, so I should analize the content and writing style and try to write something similar in a future.

Another interesting thing you can do with that info is combine it with your traffic statistics and determine you best posts ever. You can use that articles as landing pages when you are commenting in other blogs. After then, when the people visit your blog through that comment you will give them something good to read and probably you could get a subscriber.

The most interesting thing of AideRSS is that you can analyze any feed. I’m not suggesting you to copy the content or anything like that, instead, you can use that information to see what worked for other bloggers in a past, what they covered and may be that can give you many ideas to develop in a deeper way something “uncovered” by other blogger.

Now, it’s time for you to play with this, I hope you like it!