Professional bloggers aren’t exactly known for being happy with their lot. In their search for increased profits, they want more backlinks, more traffic, and better post ideas. They also happen tend to want those things as soon as possible.
Another popular item on the wish list of the average pro blogger is more RSS subscribers. Like the other items on the list however, more RSS subscribers isn’t always an easy thing to achieve. And considering the benefits of having a large RSS following, this is something that causes quite a bit of frustration.
Should you find yourself experiencing such frustration, here are six simple tips for getting your readers to sign up to your RSS feed.
Choose the Right Icons
RSS icons are a common sight across the blogosphere and because of this, many blog readers have grown a little numb to the sight of them. It’s therefore important to select RSS icons that are large, loud and generally attention grabbing. Due to their popularity, there is a surprising amount to choose from if you take the time to look around.
Add Multiple Icons
Though the most important place to put an RSS icon is arguably above the fold on your homepage, there is no law that says you can only have one. You should be generous when it comes to the number of RSS icons that you place across your blog. Your blogs sidebar is an obvious choice. Many bloggers also choose to place an RSS icon at the end of each and every post.
Free Gifts
A common tactic employed by many bloggers to get more subscribers is to offer a free gift in return for signing up. This can be an effective tactic but it does require a little bit of thought regarding what you are going to give away. Don’t think that just because you’re offering something for free that people are automatically going to sign up. You need to come up with something that offers real benefit to your blogs target audience.
Exclusive Content
Another subtle form of bribery employed by many bloggers with great effect is subscriber exclusive content. The idea is simple, every now and then, you write a fantastic post and let your readers know that it’s reserved for those who subscribe. Provided you choose the right posts and you describe them in a tempting fashion, exclusive content is a highly effective subscriber boosting technique.
Count Your Subscribers
Though this is probably not the wisest move if you only have five subscribers, those with a few hundred are likely to seriously benefit from broadcasting that fact to all who visit their blog. Simply telling a visitor that a few hundred people have already decided to sign up is surprisingly effective at making him/her want to do the same thing. Many, many big budget marketing campaigns are based upon the exact same principle.
Get the Word Out
Finally, don’t make the surprisingly common mistake of assuming that the only place that you can market your RSS feed is on the pages of your blog.
- Blog commenting is just as effective at boosting RSS subscribers as it is for building backlinks.
- If you like to send emails complete with a signature, include a link to your RSS feed within that signature.
- If you have any Facebook fans or Twitter followers, ask them if they want to be RSS subscribers too.
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Yes choosing the right icon is as important as growing our blog with other tools. If we have good number of subscribers then it is good for us.
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Having Impresstion button is a important thing to get more rss subscribers
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The easy way to get more RSS subscribers is arranging giveaways and loyalty programs.
Thanks for sharing
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Thanks for this post. Rss is very important for each post.Through this we can get visitors back to our sites.Iam looking forward for your new article.
Getting more RSS subscribers is the way to increase conversions. The more network you have, the more people you can engage to try your product. This is definitely worth the read!
this is really very informative
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Giving free gifts is always a good choice as everyone likes free stuff. But the problem comes what gift should we give to our subscribers as everyone is not talented to write an e-book and give it to visitors. So what can be the free gifts? Anyway your article is really great. Thanks for sharing it.
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Thanks for imparting these tips, this is one area that I never looked into developing further. Given that there is so much potential at hand when we work on gathering more RSS subscribers, I’m very much determined to try my hand at it.
Everyone wants to increase his RSS feed.
placing an RSS feed multiple icons is a very good way to increase the RSS feed.
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Thanks for such great information. RSS is a very useful method to get visitors back, i,m trying to get people with his method. I,d love to use your intructions , such about large icon etc, I hope i will get resutls.
THanks a lot.
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Thanks for the tips.it helps in getting good subscribers.cool share
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Getting more subscribers enable you to maximize your potentials for higher conversions. These tips are just some of the amazing ways you can actually increase your subscribers! Must read.
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Honestly I haven’t been focusing on my RSS subscribers at all. But one thing is for sure, if you want more RSS readers better place an kick @ss RSS logo to your pages. It’s also good to make your social icons float and make them follow your reader. Although this could be a bit annoying. The best place is to place your RSS icon above the fold and it should blend with your site’s theme.
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thanks for detailing these simple yet effective ways to get more RSS subscribers…..a must read article for everyone of us….
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Not exactly sure if my message came through. If i market my RSS feed this way can they also grab it and place it on their sites or in twitter feed and the like? If they were so iclined? It doesn’t show up but I do get flagged for duplicate content..
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If i market my RSS feed this way can they also grab it and place it on their sites or in twitter feed and the like? If they were so iclined?
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A comprehensive list on getting more subscribers I must say. I’d encountered various kinds of RSS icons on some websites before now. Exactly what they do, get the reader to notice the icon. Subscriber exclusive content and free gifts are the quintessential ways to go about gathering more subscribers. Thanks for sharing.
No bad ideas for the absolute basics of an rss scheme; however, I think it takes a lot lot more to get exposure on the web nowadays.
An icon can bring a lot of difference to a website.Also placing it on the right place on the webpage is as much important as having it.For me placing it on the top of the webpage is a good idea than placing it anywhere else.
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Nice summary, for how to get more subscribers for rss. RSS benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically & I am favor to “Add Multiple Icons” its really wonderful idea to increase more rss subscribers. If RSS icon are placed on each pages surely it will show effect to RSS subscribers.
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You can use Great icons and gifts too but Great Content should be on your first priority this is what attracts the Readers most
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Great content always helps to improve giveaways, and you can also use series of post by which you can ask your readers to subscribe for upcoming posts…
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Hmm, very nice tips are shared! I need subscriber and I think this post will help me to gain subscribers. Thanks for share!
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RSS subscribers are very important for blogging niche blogs, It helps to keep readership safe. I’m struggling with low subscribers, I hope these tips will work out for me.
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I always use large icons for my RSS link as well as social profile links. One more important place to add the ‘Subscribe to RSS’ icon/box is at the end of each blog posts so that if a new visitor to your site likes your post, he/she can easily subscribe to your RSS from there.
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I always consider gifting the visitors and conducting giveaways attracts too many visitors. It makes the visitors loyal as well.
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First things first. Thanks to Blogger for such a handy info. I was much confused in terms of RSS, but my all doubts have been cleared here. I will try this things…
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Does anyone even use RSS anymore? I mean regular people and not bloggers or IM’ers? I’ll have to take a look at my icons and placement and do some sprucing up because I’ve never had success getting RSS followers – or maybe my writing just stinks. :)
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I must admit I hadn’t known there would be RSS icons apart from the conventional orange one. I’ll have to try them all out. Excellent content exclusive to RSS subscribers is, I believe, the most effective way to induce visitors to join. Offering free gifts is viable if the gift is more valuable than or equally valuable to our blog, and not always in terms of the material value. Totally agree with all your other points. Thanks for sharing.
Wow! i totally agree with free gift option and large icons for RSS feeds they attract attention too. thanks for the information
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I am struggling to increase the number of subscribers by until know it has been pretty difficult. I am going to apply these tips and I hope there will be positive results.
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Giveaways, I mean free products help to increase RSS subscribers and even free products make our site popular
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The points you listed are true but good content is the one who make people click the subscribe button and anything else is secondary.
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Yes! I have to agree with that, as what they always say, content is KING!
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I went with the free gift option to initially boost my subscriber base and it worked quite well. I wrote a 10 page special report that talked about the applications of warrior wisdom to make your trading more effective. The feedback was good and the subs jumped in.
I should probably think of some other things I can do too now that my list is bigger. You’re probably right that mentioning that it has hundreds of people would probably be a good thing to encourage more to join up. Thanks for the tip!
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Great tips, I always struggled with RSS subscribers, I was always good at building my mailing list but no one ever wanted to subscribe on RSS, I’m going to put a few of these tips into action and see what happens! Great post!
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I have noticed a rise in my blog rss subscribers recently. But one of the best methods of getting new readers to subscribe to your feed is to use the Elert Gadget software. Mind you it does take quite a bit of time to set up. But once you do this, you will get an almost endless stream of rss subscriptions.
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Really nice and useful post. I always use large icons for my RSS link as well as social profile links. One more important place to add the ‘Subscribe to RSS’ icon/box is at the end of each blog posts so that if a new visitor to your site likes your post, he/she can easily subscribe to your RSS from there.
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people are very visual so, changing the button colors and structures helps
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