Make Money Online: SFM

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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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:
   
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9. 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.
10. E-mail signature - Use your blog RSS along with your blog Address in all of your outgoing e-mails.

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We all know what an internet discussion forum is. Forum is an online marketplace where we seek help and give advice on the topics of our choice.

On forums, we have all kind of member like there are people who are expert of their niche and there are some people who are new to their technologies & are on the forum to get more knowledge about their niche.

There are hundreds, thousands of members on the forum and there are some moderators/Administrations as well there to keep track of our activities. If any of forum member go against its standard guidelines, their account can be removed from that forum. So it is advised not to spam forums for your personal benefits.

When you ask a question, many members will reply to that question who have some knowledge or who are expert of that niche. And when someone else ask question, you can also give your valuable advice on that.

Forums give us the opportunity to get in connection with people who are expert or newbie in your niche. This way you and your website will be known by many people in your existing forums.

If you are looking for some free and cool ways to drive traffic to your website/blog, working on forums will be a great idea. There are many ways one can use forums to drive traffic to their websites:

Website in your Signature

Easiest and ethical way of promoting your website though forums is including your website link in your signature section. There are many forums available on the internet that allows its members to add their signature in the footer of their post. When a forum offers you the signature facility, your signature with the links to your website will be visible in the footer of very post that is/will be made by you. And when you have link website link in your signature, it will be visible to everyone whether they are forum member or guests. This way other people will become more familiar with you and your website. There will be many people who will be going to your website/blog through your signature link. This way you will be able to get quality back links as well as traffic for your website.

Posting on related forums is a great way to get quality one way links for your website/blog.

About forum selection

When it comes about getting traffic from forums, one has to make a decision about the kind of forum to go for. One can go for some general and some area specific forums. If you have a travel specific website, choosing the travel based forums will be the best idea. And if you have general marketing, seo, blogging, affiliate related website, working on forums like digital point, Sitepoint, Seochat, warriorforum, seo-guy etc kind of forums will work for you.

Working as an Expert of your Niche

Possibility of people clicking on your website increases when you work as an expert on a forum. When you contribute as an expert of your niche, people are more interested in knowing about you, your website and the kind of service or product your site is offering.

Your views

Have you even worked on a forum? And if yes how is/was your experience there?

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