Do you have a new blog? Do you wish to attract more subscribers?
Well, today Ali Hussain, a 17 years old blogger will provide some tips on how to get more subscribers for your blog.
Display Feed
One mistake that some blogs make is have their RSS feed link appearing too far down in the footer of the design. This is wrong – if you want to attract subscribers – just put up the FeedCount as well as the subscribe box on the top of your sidebar to attract more people.
Use Multiple Methods to Promote Your Feed
Try different methods to attract users. By this I mean is try adding more options for your readers like “Subscribe to My Feeds” in the end of each post, a Subscribe page may be. Try experimenting.
Tell Them Why They Should Subscribe
You can see a “Why Subscribe” in my sidebar, yes you too should place text like this in order to make your readers aware what benefits would they receive after subscribing to the blog.
Offer RSS to Email Services
Many readers forget to add your RSS feeds to their readers, or simply don’t get the time to frequently visit their RSS Readers. Ask them to subscribe to your Feed Email service i.e. when you make a new blog post they are alerted via email. Use services like Feedburner and Feeblitz.
Give Your Feed Readers a Bonus
HHost contest or give them freebies just to subscribe to your blog. I recently ran a contest on Techuse. So give your readers a tempting offer to subscribe.
Reveal The Truth
Readers like to know the truth about you and the blog, so post real facts. By this I mean to say that you make sure that you tell the ture details about your identity and make sure you post the true and valid stats to your blog. This will make the readers trust you and hence subscribe to your blog.
Plugins
Use plugins like GreetBox and SubscribeRemind to make people aware that you have an active RSS Feed and ask them to subscribe to your blog, if they liked your posts.
Last Thing
If you are looking for more tips and tricks please subscribe to the Techuse Blog using Email Updates.
Editor’s Note:
Ali Hussain is a young 17-year old part webmaster, part webdesigner. He loves blogging and sharing. He started Techuse for Internet Geeks all around the World Wide Web.
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What about displaying feedburner numbers? Lets say I have 1 subscriber showing on the counter, would people want to subscribe?
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I have posted about displaying RSS readers at http://techuse.net/2009/04/is-it-time-to-display-rss-readers.html
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50 or so is usually a good round number most often recommended.
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I would go as far as saying that it depends highly on what your niche is. For some niches… it really doesn’t matter if you tell the people your subscribers number, while for other niches, the # of subscribers is a very important and influential reason why some people would want to sign up for your feed as well. Thats my take on it….
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yeah remember not to put your feed count if its below 100 =) Look more presentable!
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I’d like to thankyou for posting my Guest Post on your blog.
Ali Hussain´s lastest post..Home Of Computer Resources
I’m a little wary of putting the subscriber count on my site as well, mostly because of its instability. A blogger with thousands of subscribers could wake up one morning and realize his count has been displaying far fewer for days at a time, which isn’t comforting to say the least. But I do agree with making the subscription options prominent, instead of just at the bottom of the site, and having something that tells people what RSS is and why they should subscribe. Great tips!
~ Kristi
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Agreeable Kristi..
The feed count hasn’t been stable even after Google took over.
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What is really the point of displaying your feed numbers? What does that accomplish?
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In my opinion, displaying your FEED Subscriber numbers enticed other visitors to subscribe also to your blog.
When you have many subscribers and your visitors/audience see those numbers displayed, they might think that “Uh, this blog has decent number of subscribers, maybe this blog offers something that are worth reading or subscribing too.” Thus making them to follow along those numbers.
Contests can also increase your subscriber’s number.
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Which is often so. Most blogs with thousands of subscribers do have something valuable that they share (at least in the opinion og the subscribers).
On the other hand I am not a big fan of showing the count if the figure is very low. I think it will keep some people from subscribing.
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Hi
I think that it is really important to have the option to subscribe by e-mail. Personally this is the way that I like to receive updates.
The best/easiest way is to use the code from Feedburner to display an email entry and “Subscribe” button.
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Good post. The main reason to subscribe is good content. Then people do the rest.
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Thankyou so very much
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I find that one of the things that makes me subscribe to a blog, is when it offers a contest where RSS subscription is a way to participate. I also subscribe if the blog updates often, and I enjoy the content.
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I also attracted quite a few RSS subscibers via a contest
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Well the thing is that you don’t have to display you’re feed count when its not that high yet! At least that is what most people are saying…
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Yes, that is true, just don’t display it until you get, let say hundreds of subscribers. Just like don’t allow comments when you are still starting a brand new blog (I think).
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Excellent input on the email option. I have contacted several bloggers personally to ask them to add that.
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Hi,
I have just read RSS related article today.
The other said that innovating your wording from the usual “subscribe feeds” into an attractive humorous wording can be helpful in attracting email subscribers.
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True very true
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Some good tips. It’s also a good idea to encourage your subscribers to tell their friends about your site.
I recently came across to a site where the blog owner required me subscribe the email list to read a post which was password protected and has a great title, I did so.
I think this method can be used to increase the subscriber, but for this one, you should have a really great article otherwise it might have counter effect.
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I will most likely include the feedburner counter once it increase from 1 to 100. lol
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Thanks for these ideas. I never thought of the “why” people should subscribe. Good idea!
The general rule in displaying the RSS feed is to don’t display it until you got atleast a hundred subscriber. If you are going to display it when you still got a lower number then it would show that your site is not trustable. People like to follow other people.
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very good post about subscribing.I have very big blogs in past but did not have much subscribers.i will try this out and let you know guys how it works?
Very nicely written, but you missed one big thing to do to get more subscribers; ask people to subscribe. I read that somewhere, then wrote a post asking people to subscribe, and a lot of people did Bold, but a neat thing to do every once in awhile. :-)
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Yup…good thing you commented
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It is comforting to say the least. But I do agree with making the subscription options prominent, instead of just at the bottom of the site, and having something that tells people what RSS is and why they should subscribe. Great tips!
I recently came across to a site where the blog owner required me subscribe the email list to read a post which was password protected and has a great title, I did so.
Can u share the link. Thanks
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Hi, Ali, If you want this is the link. I have subscribed but did not get the password yet, maybe their email problem.
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This is great written. I just added 2 plugins: GreetBox and SubscribeRemind. It is nice plugin to increase subscribers.
Thanks for nice post!
@Computer Repairs : Are you happen to visit the same site and did the same thing or just copy and pasted my comment?
Thanks for the heads up. The quality of comments nowadays are degrading day by day.
I wonder what went inside their heads when they left “copy & paste” comments.
Good tips. I have been focusing more on pushing my Twitter account as I see this as being more valuable than the rss feed, imho. I personally think that Twitter will soon make rss as we know it obsolete.
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Twitter is now on world domination. I doubt though that it would make RSS obsolete. Great articles is the key to get a lot of subscribers
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Hi Ali,
Great tips. I just loved the Greeting Plugin, just what I were looking for.
Luis
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Being that this blog is new, I plan to use the suggestions of this site to help promote it.
Thanks for sharing all your great ideas!
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You’ve made some amazing points here. I could really use most of this.
Creating a “10 reasons why you should subscribe” is a great idea. I have not seen others using this, why not? Every one says sign up now, but also giving the reasons why is the way to go. Thanks
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Thankyou all
nice to know ideas to promote a site.
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i think asking the visitors to subscribe our site when they come for the first time is one of the tips we can implement.
I think it’s harder to find subscribers for blogs with mixed-bag niches like mine (tech, gaming, and blogging)
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I think you should not display feed count on your site when your site doesn’t have so many reader :)
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Thanks to this wonderful site and Yan’s great suggestions
Nice one dude…
knowing that everyone need to know how to get more subscribers
is really exciting..
especially to all company who need to promote their services
this post can really help for everyone..
It really doesn’t matter if you tell the people your subscribers number, while for other niches, the # of subscribers is a very important and influential reason why some people would want to sign up for your feed as well.
@Camera, do you have any statistics on what niches that are in either category? That would be really interesting to read.
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Agree with you guys. If you want play with blogs play it right way. I think Wordpress plug-in help for this.
Thank You for knowledge sharing.
Wish you all the best
Cheers …!!! :D :D
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nice article :) and yea, I am using wpgreetbox plugin, and its showing nice results !
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I will say some times subscribers is really irrelevant to the success of a website. Nowadays people can fake the subscribers count, which is quite a shame! what is more important is the quality of the subscribers.
I always believe that with a single click your new posts should be spread to as many as people. For this feedburner or other subsriber is the best options. That’s why I always put my FEED at such place where visitors can easily access them.
I give equal importance to my Feed and my advertisers.
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Offering email service is a good choice and it has converted quite well for me!
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Really nice tips to get more subscribers. I am going to try this out for my blog too. thank you.
Wow I found a brother lol. I just married a Yan and am a mad xilaren lol. I will take account of your methods to help me build some subscribers. I will offer some incentives on my blog soon. I am a new blogger but am happy with my Alexa ranking at the moment. Now I want some nice readers who will like my boring tirades lol.
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Wow, this is really great. Thanks for sharing this info. I am still new here and still need to know more things like this. This post really help a lot.
Regards,
Holiday With Mama
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Thank you ! your article was very useful for me because i have good traffic via different sources but not enough RSS subscribers !
nice article :) i should try right now to get more subscribers. Thanks for sharing Yan :)
I was wondering if anyone knew if there is a difference between someone “following” your blog or “subscribing” to your blog?
What is really the point of displaying your feed numbers? What does that accomplish?
Thanks for the tips. I need to increases the subscriber base for my news update website. I hope your tips will help. BTW, how long it usually takes to reach 1k subscriber for a normal average blog?