6 Techniques to get more RSS Subscribers to your Blog!
1. Comment on someone’s blog who has as many or nearly as many subscribers as you do - Tell them you’ve subscribed to their blog. They may reciprocate - a lot will.
2. Ask your Readers to subscribe. Make it easy and blatant. If people see links asking to subscribe all over the place then they’re more likely to subscribe.
3. Write Guest Posts for other Bloggers. This is a great way to get new subscribers - instead of puting your link in your bio, put a link to your feed url.
4. Bribes are always welcome. Offer something nice to your readers if they subscribe to your blog. This is always a good method to get new RSS readers.
5. Build your network, and then ask your network periodically to subscribe to your rss feed.
6. Start Podcasting. Podcasts are great ways to get more traffic, and get the word out about your blog. It’s also a great way to get new rss subscribers.
These are just a few methods - what’s your favorite method of bringing in new subscribers?
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Collin Lahay has launched a service called RSSHugger, which is basically an rss directory meets wiki.
He allows bloggers the opportunity to promote their blogs easily just by adding them to the directory. You can add your own blog for only $20, or you can get it added for free if you blog about RSS Hugger.(Which is why I’m blogging about it. lol)..
Collin’s goal is for his directory to eclipse 50,000 blogs. The idea behind the site is to build buzz and receive new rss subscribers for members of the site.
How it works:
First you buy your page (or get it free), then your rss feeds are displayed on your own page in rss hugger, I’m a little skeptical about how this all works, but I’m always interested in trying out new technologies and marketing experiments. After all it couldn’t hurt, could it?
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Twitter is a Monster of a Promotion Tool - Let’s Try an Experiment…
Over the past two weeks, I’ve learned a lot about maximizing twitter. Before, I didn’t know the point of Twitter, now because of Twitter, I’m getting steady traffic around 800-1000 hits per day. (Not too shabby after 15 days, being back up and live, and having roughly 30Â blog posts so far.)
On top of the subscribers, the diggs, and the traffic - I’ve also met some wonderful people, found some interesting blogs, had some interesting conversations, and increased the conversation at my site. I’ve gotten a total of 88 comments on this blog, since March 17th.
March 17th was also the day my traffic began going up, up and away.
The next experiment is actually a Twitter Meme.
Goal: For each participant to receive the following:
- More followers on Twitter.
- More RSS Subscribers.
How this works:
- Subscriber to my Feed. Via RSS, or Via Email.
- Follow me on Twitter:Â PatrickCurl
- Put a comment stating that you subscribed & Followed. In your comment - provide your RSS FEED link, and your Twitter Profile Link.
- Please follow / subscribe to those who have commented before you. If you like, you can come back regularly and subscribe to the new people on the list, it is highly recommended, but not mandatory.
- Send this link out via Twitter, and See if we can’t get 100 subscribers / followers per person listed. (Here’s the tinyurl to make it easier: http://tinyurl.com/37k65m )
- We would also ask that each person who joins this movement - write a quick blog post about it - and link to this post (as this is where all the subscription / follow links will be.)
- You can also send out the blog link that you just wrote to Twitter, as well for added exposure.
As you can see this is a great way to promote your blog - but it is also an experiment, I’m excited to see the kind of momentum we can build on Twitter.
Other things you can do is stumble this post, digg it, sphinn it, favorite on delicious, etc…
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I’m just totally amazed. Last week I wrote a post, which I thought was good, and all my twitter buds, seemed to like it as well, as they gave me a good boost on Digg.
You can read and or Digg that post here: “7 Ways to Be Best Buds With an A-List Blogger“Â or Digg it here.
Over the weekend, I had some huge traffic to my blog as a result of the digging, and twittering of that post.
My bandwidth was huge, and the most amazing part is my Subscriber Base went from 81 Subscribers on Friday - ALL the way to a whopping 1836 SUBSCRIBERS, as of Today!
I totally can’t believe how much twitter has increased my site’s reach.
Have you experienced a Digg & Twitter Boost? What were your results?
What’s the most new subscribers you’ve received in a short period of time?
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I had 26 responses to the following survey on twitter: “What time do you read your feeds the most, or see the most hits..”
My findings were both what I thought it would be, with a few twists.
I was pretty certain that Morning would be the best time of day. Other than that I wasn’t very certain.
According to my small poll, I was correct -Â 12 of the people polled, said they read their feeds in the early morning usually between 6-9am.
What I didn’t expect was for the second runner up to be the Night Crew(8pm - Midnight). There were 9 who reported the most activity @ Night.
Third is also a surprise, because it’s a busy time, people are coming home, spending time with families, and eating dinner. But third place is Evenings between 5pm-8pm. There were8 who chose this option.
Tieing for third was the mid morning group (9-11). 8 people also chose this option.
4th place was Afternoon (2-5pm). With 6 people.
5th Place was Noon and Late Night with 2 people. (Noon is roughly @ 12, give or take an hour); Late night is considered after Midnight.
All in all it was an interesting experiment, I think the most interesting part is that I asked a question on Twitter, and got 25 really good answers, which turned into a pretty neat blog post. Twitter really is a wonder.
I’d like to thank the following participants for contributing to this post:
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