Friday, November 17, 2006

13 ways to increase your rss subscribers

Many bloggers has wrote posts about how to increase rss subscribers,now I will share you with my successful experience on doing it.
  1. Use Feedburner
    Feeburner has useful tool called FeedCount which will shows off the feed circulation.Beside,every feedburner feed got a permanet URL,that means you don't have to worry about the loss of moving to other BSP or Blog system.
  2. Unique feed!
    Do you think it's a necessity to supply more feeds for one Blog?
  3. Write a post
    The title should be Welcome to subscribe my feed,you are supposed to teach the greenhands how to subscribe rss in the content.
  4. Full article
    I believe most audiences prefer to read the feeds with full content rather than reading the summary ones.
  5. Put a Feed button in the sidebar
    Don't forget that people are lazy,so the simpler process will be better.why not try feedbutton?
  6. Optimize your feed
    Wordpress users may find these plugins useful.Feedburner also provide convenience functions,like PingShot, SmartFeed, FeedFlare, BuzzBoost.
  7. Use significant feed icon
    Anything Goes Marketing has collect some wonderful icons which are so attractive.trust me, it works :)
  8. Make it default for browser
    Add the following code between and in your themplate
    < rel="Your Rss Feed" type="application/rss+xml" title="feed name” >
    then the web browsers like Firefox an IE7 will automatic find the feed.
  9. Submit the feeds to any websites
    To catch more attention,you should submit your feeds to websites like Technorati,google blogsearch,bloglines ect.,and had better add the word- (recomment!)-beside your feed name to confuse the new subscribers :)
  10. Use web-based feed reader
    Most web-based feed readers can display the stat of feed subscribers(like bloglines) and some users are willing to make their opml public which may help you to promote.
  11. Attractive titles
    Seldom did I click the posts with boring or humdrum titles when using rss reader,that's human nature.
  12. Email RSS feed
    This make your blog friendly and professional.feedblitz is nice and powerful.
  13. Display the feed count
    How to judge a Blog? One instant way is to see its feed count!
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