Sick of Subscription Buttons?

Author: Mitch Keeler

I think that subscription buttons, you know the “Add to Google” or “Add to Yahoo!” buttons that you see on various blogs and Web sites out there have their place – but sometimes get overused. If you have over twenty of them in your web site’s sidebar that might just be a few too many.

Many said that the standardization of the rounded orange buttons was suppose to get rid of this issue – but it doesn’t.

Now if you like seeing the buttons there and you think they are handy – good for you. For the rest of us though I have a solution. Do your best to include the orange RSS icon as it is pretty much a standard that people understand. They know when they click that it means they can subscribe to the feed at hand.

Now when it comes to the other buttons – I say add a few for the most popular options and then push the others to another web page. I’ve done that with the Lunartics blog right here. Have a better solution to share? I’d love to hear it and I know a few other million people who might be interested as well.