The biggest problem most of the bloggers have is that, they don’t know how to convert their first blog visitors into loyal readers and how to motivate them to subscribe to their blog feeds. When any of your blog reader has subscribed to your blog feed in his/her feed reader, then he/she will most likely visit your blog on regular basis to check your latest posts. Every blogger wants high number of RSS subscribers to their blogs. So here are some tips bloggers can follow to increase the number of subscribers to their blogs:
- Quality content – Update your blog with quality content on regular basis. Provide your blog readers valuable and meaningful content. When you are able to update your blog with quality content, then the loyal readers to your blog will surely increases.
- Easy Subscription –
Once you have good content on your blog, now you need to place your RSS Feed Icon or link on the prominent position on your blog. The best places to show your RSS feed link are header, Sidebar header and in between posts. Subscribe to my SFM blog RSS by copying the link given in your RSS readers. - Show your RSS feed count – When you start getting some decent traffic and respectable RSS subscribers to your blog, share your RSS feed subscribers count with your blog readers. Suppose your blog have around 100 RSS subscribers, share this count with blog visitors to increase this count further. Feedburner is a service where you can create the feed for your blog and use their ‘feed count’ code on your blogs to show the exact number of subscribers your blog have right now.
- Guest Blogging – Guest blogging is also a great way to get more exposure for your blog. This way you will be able to get more valuable visitors and subscribers to your blog. When you contribute content on someone else’s blog, post original content with a link to your blog in byline.
- Forums contribution – Spend some time on the forums related to your niche and offer helpful information to the participants there. When the people find your advice helpful, they will surly visit your blog and subscribe to your blog RSS to know the latest posts on your blog.
- Stay focused – With regular content addition, one need to add content related to their blog topic. If a blogger jump from one topic to another, then the readers on that blog will not be interested in subscribing to that blog RSS.
- Full RSS Feed – Offer full RSS feed to your blog readers instead of partial RSS feed. People are more interested in subscribing to a blog RSS feed that is full and not partial.
- E-mail Subscription – There are very few people who use RSS readers but e-mails are used by everyone these days. So to get these people to subscribe to your RSS, ask them to subscribe to your E-mail RSS feed where they will get your latest posts via e-mail. To subscribe to my blog RSS via email, enter your e-mail address in the box given below:
- Submit to RSS directories – Submitting your blog RSS to RSS directories will help more people to find your blog RSS and subscribe to it. One can get a list of best RSS submission websites here.
- E-mail signature – Use your blog RSS along with your blog Address in all of your outgoing e-mails.
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Thanks…Very good advise.
I’ve just found your blog and i will be subscribing, lots of useful hints and tips. Keep up the good work!
Hey Anil, you should consider entering these tips in my Building RSS Group Writing Project:
http://groupwritingprojects.com/blog/building-rss-group-writing-project/
All you would need to qualify for over $350 in prizes – including consults with Liz Strauss and David Airey – is to link your above article to the announcement post at the above link. Although additional tips before Sunday night’s deadline would increase your chances of winning even more.
thanks for this post, before i read it i had only 13 subscribers, but later it turned to 600.
Hi Alexa
Great to know, you are able to increase your subscribers count to 600. It would be interesting to know what steps you take to increase your RSS Subscribers to this level from 13? Would you like to share your experience here?
i will follow your idea & concept
Found full feed site http://FullFeeds.org is a full RSS feed generator that can take any partial feed and convert it into a full feed or accept any URL from any website