6 Tips To Get More RSS Subscribers

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by geeks4share, Feb 18, 2011.

  1. #1
    Hey,
    My name is Praveen - Founder & Author Of Geeks4Share.com

    RSS feeds on websites and blogs have been a popular way to keep Internet users coming back to the site or blog over the last few years. When a user signs up for your RSS feed, they will then receive notification whenever you update the content of your site or write a new blog post. You can elect to show all of the new content in the feed or you can show partial content so that the Internet user has to visit your website to read the rest of it.

    The challenging part of RSS is getting people to enter their email to sign up to receive your feed. The more readers you have, the better, so getting people to sign up is a vital part of making your website successful.

    Here are 6 tips for getting Internet users to sign up for your RSS feed

    1) Make sure your RSS icon or sign up box is highly visible on your website or blog. It is also a good idea to stick it in more than one place. For example, you could have it in the upper right hand corner of your website’s sidebar and you can also have it at the start or end of each blog post. If people cannot easily find where they can sign up for your RSS feed, then it is going to be hard acquiring readers.

    2) Make the RSS icons or sign up box stick out. Most RSS icons are bright orange in color, but what if you are one of the few people who use orange as a primary color in your site’s design? It might not stick out as much then. RSS icons are pretty easy to find in just about any color, several gradients, shapes and sizes. Choose icons that stand out to the reader.

    3) Provide quality content that users will want to read. Getting people to sign up for your RSS feed is not just about having a good looking icon in the right place. People will only want to read your content if it is informative and high quality. They need to feel like they are going to gain something from what you say. If your content is bland or run of the mill, then you are not providing anything new to the Internet user.

    4) Install a Light box request users to sign-up for your RSS feeds. Make sure it’s not going to pop up more than once a day. If the box is going to pop-up on every page then it will be quite annoying, which will make your visitors feel uncomfortable with your blog which might make them quit your blog.

    5) Give away some free products in return ask your visitors to sign-up for feeds. You could noticed in many famous blog that they are asking you to signup for their feeds to get the download link. This can be easily done by Aweber – Autoresponder.

    6) Using the facebook app static fbml you are able to include html into the sidebar of a facebook page, or into a tab. As long as your form is HTML, you will be able to install it into your page using the static fbml app. You can also add a sign up form to the sidebar of your personal Facebook profile using the app profile box.

    Hope these tips will be quite helpful for you to increase your RSS subscribers icon :)

    Regards
    Praveen
    http://geeks4share.com
     
    geeks4share, Feb 18, 2011 IP
  2. Edvoltage

    Edvoltage Peon

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    #2
    Wow ...

    i am Also A Blogger ... and your Tips And Techniques Are really Helpful .. Thanks For sharing ..

    Keep up The Good Work ..
     
    Edvoltage, Feb 18, 2011 IP
  3. geeks4share

    geeks4share Active Member

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    #3
    Thanks For Your Reply Mate :)
     
    geeks4share, Feb 18, 2011 IP
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    joshuthomas Well-Known Member

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    Nice share! i was also browsing through your blog. Impressive. I kinda get the feel that you three behind the website are pretty young chaps! good to see young bloggers doing good job. All the best!

    cheers
    Josh
     
    joshuthomas, Feb 18, 2011 IP
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    geeks4share Active Member

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    Yep, we are young. I guess most bloggers started their blog when they were at our age :)
    Thanks For Your Reply
     
    geeks4share, Feb 18, 2011 IP
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    saqib889 Peon

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    #6
    these tips are helpful for me as well.
     
    saqib889, Feb 18, 2011 IP
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    Thanks for the advice! I plan on using these for my blog. Getting RSS subscribers has been difficult for me lately.
     
    Oceanus, Feb 18, 2011 IP
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    Great tips praveen. Yes RSS feed is a great way to receive some daily traffic for the site and these tips are quite useful.
    Thanks for your sharing.
     
    wiseman.wiseman05, Feb 21, 2011 IP
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    rajneshkumar Greenhorn

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    thanks a lots to share the info
     
    rajneshkumar, Feb 21, 2011 IP
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    Thank you for sharing this. Will recommend this thread if ever I'll encounter an issue about this.
     
    Zachmo, Feb 21, 2011 IP
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    Thanks for sharing the tips. I was also thinking of starting rss feed.
     
    pradiprg, Feb 21, 2011 IP
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    nice tips to get traffic from RSS!thanks
     
    vninfo, Feb 21, 2011 IP