Serving my term of national service in the army made me understand that it takes not just one commander to tear down your enemy base but a group of specialists who is willing to listen to your command and action the instructions passed down by you and that makes you a respectable commander with a group of soldiers who look upon you as a figure they admire to become one day.
I manage to slowly integrated this concept of building a loyal group of subscribers on my RSS by allowing them to trust me in providing them with good quality post, some of my explosive post i written have already proven it’s credibility in feeding only the best to my loyal subscribers and readers.
Here i have listed 40 effective methods you can use to increase the numbers of Rss Subscribers on your blog:
- Have a large Rss Button which could be seen on the front fold of your blog.
- Place your Rss Button & icons above the front fold.
- Use images on your blog content to promote your feeds.
- Post your contents daily and put in fresh unique topics which makes your readers want to come back for more.
- If your niche is “internet marketing“, don’t post daily food outings and spoil that niche.
- Offer Full Rss Feed to your subscribers.
- Allow readers to subscribe via email.
- Use Feedburner to efficiently reduce the number of steps needed to subscribe to your Feed.
- Use social media community like myblog, blogcatalog to spread your message to firt time visitors to subscribe to your feed.
- Write an article on your blog explaining what Rss is and the advantages of subscribing to one’s feed.
- Write an article on How to use Rss Feed, not everyone knows what that orange button means.
- Write Interesting Headlines so that readers are instantly attracted to your post.
- At the end of your post, drop a sentence of button that let your readers know they can subscribe to your feed easily following the link.
- Submit your blog’s RSS feed to RSS directories.
- Make your Rss Feed be on auto-discovery on browsers.
- If you have more than 200 subscriber, showoff your feed counter.
- Drop an email to first time commentors with your Rss Feed subscription link.
- You can always add a signature on your email account and automatically every email you reply will be tagged with your Rss Feed.
- Help your fellow bloggers in optimizing their blogs and you might get lucky receiving new subscribers.
- Posting too many articles a day is not advisable, try to spread your work out to a daily basis.
- If your blog design is one year old, it is time to redesign it and it might increase your Rss Readers.
- Create a dedicated landing page for your Rss Subscriptions.
- Create “List-Posting” of top 10 and even 101 best blogging tips.
- Create your first Serial Post on a particular subject.
- Create pillar post which could be on a topic with words of more than 5000.
- Start to write for others and be a guest blogger for another blog which have a bigger Rss Reading list.
- Write for Digg, Stumbleupon and other social media network to boost your traffic number to conver to subscribers.
- Start a simple contest to boost your Rss Readers.
- Offer an Ebook or blueprint report for free when readers subscribe to your feed.
- Participate in related blog carnivals, the more attention you receive from others, the chances of new subscribers becomes higher.
- Start your own podcast station, it is a good way to encourage users to subscribe to your blog.
- Actively respond on the forums, this helps build your reputation on the forum and you might gain new subscribers through respect.
- Use Paid Advertising like Adwords to help boost the traffic to your blog and you might increase your subscribers rate.
- Start guest blogging and send in your Rss feed link to the blog owner to have it published on the post.
- Email those who are unverified on your feed list and tell them they have missed out all the exciting post that you had over the past weeks.
- On your newsletter, promote your Rss Feed and let your readers know how important it is to subscribe.
- Start a Rss Competition between you and another blogger which have fairly the same Rss readers and request for your readers to subscribe to your blog to beat the other blogger.
- What would Seth Godin do Plugin – displays a reminder at the beginning of the first post asking readers to subscribe to your blog’s feed.
- The Subscribe Me Plugin – lets you display chicklets on your blog, so that visitors can subscribe to the feed using their favourite RSS reader.
- Subscribe ReminderPlugin – place a reminder under each post, requesting your readers to subscribe