socialmedian: 50 Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers

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Submitted by Daniel J Pritchett from Google Reader

Nov 11, 2008

Summary

Most bloggers love their RSS readers. Not only that, but they also love to gain new RSS readers. It is such a joy when you wake up one day and see that your Feedburner count jumped by 200 or 300, right?

Those days are quite rare though, and most people seem to have a hard time gaining even a small number of new RSS subscribers consistently.

Is there anything you can do about it? Any way to efficiently attract more RSS subscribers?

Sure there is. Many people wrote about this topic in the past, but I wanted to give my take on the issue too. I wrote those 50 ideas as they were coming to my head, as briefly as possible. Enjoy.

1. Have a big RSS icon. People are lazy. You need to keep that fact always in mind. If you use a little RSS icon, visitors might have a problem finding it. Most of those will just give up after a couple of seconds, so make sure the RSS icon is big and easily recognizable.

2. Display the RSS icon above the fold. Apart from using a big RSS icon, you must make sure that you display it above the fold. That is where most blogs have one, and that i

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Comments (10)

Matthew Sboc,

Nov 11, 2008

great ideas and a handy list to have kicking around

Nataliesblack,

Nov 12, 2008

Great tips. As someone who recently started a new blog, I am sure these tips will be very helpful.

Nikitascene,

Nov 12, 2008

What an awesome post! I am starting a new blog and will definitely be trying some of the tips out. cheers ~Kat

Mholzinger,

Nov 13, 2008

1. RSS logo http://www.feedicons.com/

11. Google Reader add http://www.google.com/webmasters/add.html

add if need Copyright logo type Alt-0169 ©

Sina,

Nov 14, 2008

RSO - RSS Subscriber Optimization :-) Great!

Roc Kand Review,

Nov 14, 2008

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