Growing Your Blog's RSS Subscribers

| Friday, October 21, 2011
By Michael Owens


Its obvious if you have a blog or plan to create one that you know how important it is to get and retain RSS subscribers so that you will have repeat visitors. The purpose of this article is to clearly show you what kind of steps you can and how you can work on getting more RSS feed subscribers to your blog in the best possible way ...

Get Friends to Recommend Your Blog/RSS Feed: Everybody knows that testimonials are great at inspiring action but recommendations work even better. That's right, if you can ask your friends to recommend your blog's feed to their readers and subscribers you'll get a much higher response since they will share a trusting relationship that you'll be leveraging. It's easy to see that, if you allow your friends to help you, you will be able to consistently add more subscribers to your feed without your having to put in any extra effort.You can always do well to get some recommendations because those already have a comfort level that is built in.

Target Your Blog: As long as your blog is clear on what it's talking about, you'll find more and more people wanting to subscribe to your blog's feed to stay updated. People won't be inclined to subscribe to your blog if your writing bounces from topic to topic because they see a reason to do so. Keeping your blog content tight and focused will allow you to know exactly what you are giving as well as allowing your readers to know just what they can expect if they subscribe. There's a great demand for specialized and targeted knowledge today, and through your blog, you can actually give your target audience that. Its time to get your blog into focus if its been scattered about because only when that happens will you have people wanting to subscribe and opt-in.

Customize Your Subscription Page: If your subscription page is completely empty except for the sign up form, you're missing an opportunity. Use your opt-in page to show some of the previous feedback you've received from other readers. Make them feel good about subscribing to your blog and the benefits of staying updated. If you don't have this kind of feedback yet, send a quick email to your subscribers and ask for comments. Write a blog post asking readers for their feedback, or check back through older posts to see what kind of comments you've received in the past that could be used.

If there's one thing that you should focus on as a blog owner then it has to be increasing the readership by gaining more RSS subscribers.




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