Having blog subscribers is a good thing. These people are getting spoon fed your content in their e-mail inbox or through their Google Reader. This is a captive audience who has decided that for whatever reason, they like reading what it is you have to say.
Increasing your RSS Subscriber count is going to do good things for your internet based business! If you have a high subscriber count, you can display a widget with the number of subscribers on your blog. This can be good for establishing yourself as an expert.
When people see your blog and see high numbers, this increases the chance that they’ll subscribe too and having a list of subscribers can increase your chances of qualifying for various internet marketing programmes.
Potential customers and potential suppliers who want to know what you’re “about” will take comfort in seeing that others are interested in hearing what you have to say.
Methods To Increase Your RSS Subscribers
- Make sure you make your RSS Subscribe button easy to find. Put it above the fold on your website and make sure it’s big enough for people to see.
- Ask people to subscribe. There’s nothing wrong with making that suggestion in your blog posts. You might even consider adding it to every blog post.
- Post often! If you post regularly, you’ll have more chances of your blog doing positive things for your online business. Subscribers who rarely hear from you will eventually unsubscribe.
- Submit your blog’s feed to RSS directories. This can bring in more traffic!
- Subscribe to other blogs. When you do and then tell people that you’ve done so in their blog comments, they might return the favour!
- Promote your blogs in forums and on social media sites. Suggest that people subscribe.
- Social bookmarking your blog’s home page and individual posts can bring more potential subscribers.
- Add social bookmarking buttons (such as AddThis) to your blog so people who visit will bookmark it.
- If you run a separate e-mail marketing list, invite people to subscribe to your blog in those communications.
- Have a giveaway for subscribers only. A small gift could bring about great results.
- Have a giveaway for those who recruit RSS Subscribers to your blog! When traffic campaigns go viral they can have great possibilities.
After you’ve gained some new RSS Subscribers, it’s up to you to keep them. Wow people with great content so that they’ll keep coming back for more.
About Sean Rasmussen
This is great info Sean.
I’ll be installing the subscriber widget
Hi Sean,
This is very good!
I will know I’ve made it when I have subscribers to my blog.
Hello Sean,
Never realised that there was so many different ways to increase my RSS subscribers. I like the idea of a free gift for those that join to your rss, and also to those that promote to their friends/list/family. Great one to increase traffic.
Cheers
Lisa
Hi Sean,
I’d like some more subscribers. I agree with Lisa that giving away a free gift is a great idea. I’m just not sure what I’d use.
I guess I haven’t been paying enough attention to that up to now, I don’t even know how many subscribers I have at the moment
But I will have a look for the RSS Subscriber count widget and once there is a decent number (I guess should be at least 100?) I will put it out there
No harm in thinking big Renee, good work
Hi Sean,
By reading your articles including this one I’m learning more and more how important the RSS feed is to have on a blog. I’ve notices that mine is not set up properly and will have to delve into it more to get it right.
Many others I subscribe as well do not function in the same way as yours does. Do we have tutorials in the YOTA Forum on how to set up a RSS feed correctly on a site?