There are numerous people today who blog, for many reasons. Whether they want to make themselves known, or they want to promote their businesses, or they simply want to let some things out, people maintain blogs and need some RSS subscribers. Let’s see a few easy ways to increase the number of RSS subscribers:
1. Produce Quality Content
This is something you will probably be tired of hearing or reading, but it is true. Great content is the only thing that can actually make your visitors come back, the only thing that can attract new readers and help expand your readers’ base. If you don’t provide something interesting and useful, readers have no reason to subscribe to your blog.
2. Post frequently
Updating your posts and content often is something that can prove really helpful and useful. You need to publish new content on a regular basis, so as to convince people that your blog deserves their attention. If you make your readers miss you when you are not writing, it means you are on the right track.
3. Use a Full RSS feed
Most of the RSS subscribers will not bother if you use a partial feed. People tend to have more than one blog in their feed, because they do not have the time to read everything that is posted, thus, they scan the RSS only for the posts that they want to read and seem interesting.
4. Allow Email subscriptions
Email subscriptions are not the latest technological invention and blog writers cannot imagine a world without RSS, but, if you offer the chance to people to subscribe in both, or choose what works best for them you will get more subscribers in no time.
5. Make the RSS subscription easy
Try to make the subscription easy, by reducing the number of steps that people need to do in order to subscribe. Feed Burner RSS subscription is a great service you can use.
6. Make the RSS button visible
If you want to persuade your readers to subscribe to your blog you need to make the RSS option visible for them. People tend to notice buttons and items that are above the fold, so try to place the button there.
7. Explain what the RSS feed is
Contrary to what you might believe, not everyone knows what an RSS feed is. Write a small informative article explaining what the RSS is and how visitors can use it.
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WOW! it is really a nice points and definately i will follow these steps and i am sure there will increase in the number of RSS susbcribers for my blog. Thanks for the nice post!
Great article, Topics on your blog are really good and information inside those topics is amazing.
BTW, who is writer of your blog ?
@david: i am the lead writer of this blog, there are several writers who help me with it too..
Make It Visible: I can’t believe it when I see a site with their button no where to be seen. That’s day one, lesson one, of blogging 101
Great post! I will edit it for one of my blogs giving you credit, of course.
It;s really woderful post, thanks for sharing the great 7 ways to increase RSS feeds subscribers
This post is very simple to understand and you have listed very sensible points. I will always take care of these steps. Thanks a lot. Keep posting.