How to Increase your Blog Subscribers?
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We all want to be the next Problogger or Copyblogger with thousands of readers who follow by RSS feed. Currently Problogger has 36,533 and Copyblogger has 28,147 readers who daily open their blog updates and follow the happenings of their blog.
Why are RSS feeds important?
RSS feeds shows a blogs quality and authority within their niche and can be used as a valuable reference for when you would like to sell your blog.
Another reason why RSS numbers are valuable is they are very difficult to manipulate compared to other statistics.
Simple Tips
We could all do well to listen to them on how they increase our RSS feeds, heres some tips that i have used to promote and increase my RSS numbers:
1. Promote your feed prominently - Locate your Feed badges at a location that can be seen. Have it on the page before the scroll line that way when the page lods its there to be seen.
2. Give several ways for people to subscribe- give the option for an email or rss feed buttons.
3. Educate readers- tell people what is an RSS feed, you be surprised who does not understand.
4. Create an landing page- add a simple landing page for visitors, here’s mine
5. Ask for subscription at end of each post- put a simple subscribe here sentence.
One I not tried but going too in 2008…
Guest Posting- by guest blogging you will reach a new audience and therefore can gain additional readers.
Read Problogger and Copyblogger post on gaining more RSS feeds for the remanding tips…
Ever wondered whos got the most RSS feeds? This post is little old but gives you an idea of the numbers involved nowadays.
Have you had any success with these tips?
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Guru said:
Nice points, but a better way to do this ( according to me ) is by writing exceptional content. I still remember looking around for around 5 whole mins for the feed subscription link for a site that i loved so much. I made up my mind to find the feed link and start following the blog, i was even prepared to mail the author asking for his feed link ( cos’ it took me around 5-10 mins find it finally, and it was hidden somewhere with no icon ).
So even with all the stress on these points a better way to get subscribers is to just concentrate on writing awesome content ( now, did something suggest this already ?).
January 29th, 2008 at 7:44 pm -
Tom Beaton said:
My main goal for my new blog in 2008 is to achieve a good number of subscribers. I believe it to be critical to the success of any blog!
February 7th, 2008 at 7:40 am -
Simon said:
@Tom
Subscribers seems to be the true indicator of the quality of a blog, i also aim to increase mine.
February 7th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
