Tips on Increasing your RSS Subscribers
This is a guest post by Suraj from IMBlogger. Suraj is a 15 years old internet entrepreneur from Bangalore, India.
Hi guys,
First of all, I’d like to thank Jim Karter for giving me this great opportunity. Anyways, lets get back to the topic - I am going to share some of my tips with you on how to increase your RSS subscribers. I’ve personally tested this on many of my blogs before and after my experience, I can say that these tactics indeed do work and you’ll see a boost in your subscribers if you take some action. Make sure you’ve got some decent amount of traffic as my methods are mostly about doing some changes in your blog. You’ll not see any/much changes if you’ve got no traffic at all.
Install the “What Would Seth Godin Do” plugin
This is one of the best plugin around to increase your subscribers. This plugin will basically post a message of your choice to visitors. The default setting only shows the message to new visitors and only 3 times. I’d recommend you to change to 0 as it shows the message every time. Please go to the settings page in your admin panel and you’ll see an option to do some changes. Here’s a screenshot that I took just to give the basic idea of what it does.
You can download this plugin here. It also has installation instructions if you don’t know how to do it. 
Use contests
One of my personal favorites! I’ve been using contests and have seen awesome boost in my RSS subscriber list. You can giveaway some domains, hosting, money, gift cards and what not. Ask the visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed to enter the contest. If you’ve got a blog which is fairly big, make sure you’ve asked some people to sponsor your contest. Heck, let me know if you really you’ve a blog which is fairly big - I’ll throw something for sure. Nowadays, it seems that market leverage is sponsoring many contests - contact them and may be they’ll be happy to sponsor your contest.
Don’t write long posts all the time
I’ve seen that people do not tend to read long posts all the time. Long posts are good, but not all the times. Don’t keep making them very often. This will tire your readers and there’s a good chance that they’re going to unsubscribe. This way, you’re going to lose many readers.
Use RSS buttons and e-mail subscription forms
If you look around the blogsphere, you’ll see that most of the bloggers are using RSS buttons and e-mail subscription forms. This is the most important thing you’ll have to do. If you still haven’t installed any RSS buttons or e-mail subscription forms, make sure you’re going to do. You can use Feedburner.com to manage it. You can implement an e-mail subscription form with a RSS button at the sidebar of your blog.
Maxblogpress stripe ad pro
Maxblogpress stripe ad pro is basically a plugin which will display stripe ads on your blog. You can download the plugin and install it. Once you’ve installed, you gotta do some configuration via WP admin panel. This will display stripe ads to all the visitors and you can put some thing like “Subscribe to our RSS feed to receive updates” which will encourage people to subscribe to your feed. This does work and will increase your readers.
There are 100s of more methods to increase your blog subscribers but I wanted to keep the post short and simple so I guess I’ll have to cut it here. I’ve got many more methods, so feel free to contact me if you’re looking for more suggestions and tips. Please do let me know if you enjoy the post - if many people do and if I receive some good comments, I’ll contact Jim Karter and make more parts of this series and share many more of my methods in the near future. Any comments and suggestions are appreciated.
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Jim Karter on July 25th 2008 in Blogging, Social Networking
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36 Responses to “Tips on Increasing your RSS Subscribers”
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David Hobson responded on 26 Jul 2008 at 1:23 am #
Good post and good tips something you can consider when trying to gain readers is to start a series of blog posts these will always bump up your subscribers if it is worth reading.
Best Cheap GPS responded on 26 Jul 2008 at 2:22 am #
Thanks for information.
You know so many things, i read your blog every post… haha
KushMoney responded on 26 Jul 2008 at 5:32 am #
I am going to add that plugin right now.
suresh responded on 26 Jul 2008 at 7:03 am #
The first plug in works for word press blogs.
Is there any html code for blogspot blogs?
Jim Karter responded on 26 Jul 2008 at 9:26 am #
Ok Suraj! I have implemented this WWSGD plugin in my blog. Will post my results in a month or two on how much difference it makes.
TheAnand responded on 26 Jul 2008 at 12:46 pm #
I can say use RSS images and email forms are the only tip which has worked for me in the past 3 years….
contests are bribes. you get a spike and then it goes down again. It becomes a whole circle itself then.
Leveraging internet marketing, Social Media and SEM to build brands and engage customers responded on 26 Jul 2008 at 8:40 pm #
Good useful post. Will surely implement some them on my blog.
But just a thought. Aren’t contests only a short term measure and not necessarily the right way?
Suraj responded on 27 Jul 2008 at 3:48 am #
@Suresh - no idea man. It’s been ages since I last touched blogger blogs and I’ve forgot everything about it.
@Jim - I’d recommend you to implement it before the post, and change the no. of messages to be shown to “0″ (which means unlimited).
Please let me know if you these were helpful tips for you - I’ll try writing up more useful posts if so.
bangkok condo responded on 28 Jul 2008 at 1:17 am #
thanks for nice article, very helpful.
Money Blogger responded on 29 Jul 2008 at 10:41 pm #
I have changed to autoresponder email subscription but this method also can be implemented.thanks dude.
NaldzGraphics responded on 31 Jul 2008 at 10:53 am #
tnx.this help me.:)im gonna try the plugin
Suraj responded on 01 Aug 2008 at 1:13 am #
Thanks guys, I shall send Jim the 2nd part soon.
Web Freak responded on 01 Aug 2008 at 3:51 am #
Great article, will help me as I started a new BLOG
medical videos responded on 01 Aug 2008 at 10:39 am #
thank you very much we are waiting the second part
Zak Show responded on 01 Aug 2008 at 4:53 pm #
Good points but I think the best way to increase your RSS subscribers is running contests!
Carol responded on 01 Aug 2008 at 5:34 pm #
I think there is no other better way to increase subscriber instantly than contest. But this way does not guarantee loyal readers once the contest over.
Clemence responded on 02 Aug 2008 at 11:57 pm #
Wow! i love this blog. Truly informative. I will try running some contest to gain more feeders i guess.
Mat responded on 03 Aug 2008 at 9:54 am #
Nice plugin so far…my RSS subscription increase…
web hosting responded on 03 Aug 2008 at 8:03 pm #
wow….now, that’s a smart 15yo. Great article!
speedy responded on 09 Aug 2008 at 5:03 am #
stripe ads is a wonderful ideas, i wonder learn the correct method to launch a contest
easy money responded on 10 Aug 2008 at 2:22 am #
Nice posting. Can it direct into feedburner?
ArticleAlley responded on 21 Aug 2008 at 1:15 pm #
Thanks thats useful, I am planning a major campaign to promote by feeds and your post has been helpful.
I’ve never really exploited feedburner and the power of subcribers before but I am focused on it now!
SEO Tricks responded on 29 Aug 2008 at 4:39 am #
Thanks bro, Even I’m 15.. I have installed that plugin on my blog
Seebux.com responded on 17 Sep 2008 at 7:53 pm #
one more tip..you must increase your blog visitor and i believe your readers should be increase too…
Extreme metal blog responded on 18 Sep 2008 at 9:44 am #
thanx for these tips….ill try it on my blog…
i have no subscribers..hehe:)
Aditya responded on 18 Sep 2008 at 10:03 am #
thanks for this.
Lets see if it works on my blog.
kouji responded on 23 Sep 2008 at 11:59 pm #
good point. i tend to favor shorter posts actually which focus on something in particular. long posts, i just tend to skim.
articlesubmission responded on 25 Sep 2008 at 11:19 pm #
Actually iam using blogger right now, so iam planning to shift to wordpress, and really this post makes me happy to know this type of trick
Games responded on 02 Oct 2008 at 6:00 am #
I really was looking for such RSS related topic…
Nice Topic helped me alot
smasra.com responded on 03 Oct 2008 at 2:58 pm #
ok let me try to post this in my blog and will see the results ” my blog still new”
Webmaster Forum responded on 07 Oct 2008 at 9:00 pm #
nice tips thanks……I guess this is secret for such high RSS readers for your blog
Digital Web Talk responded on 13 Oct 2008 at 6:08 am #
Totally agree with the contests thing.. even i’ve tried it b4 and works damn well!!
Fantastic Sarch responded on 14 Oct 2008 at 6:15 am #
useful tips
titan responded on 11 Dec 2008 at 8:45 am #
thats really a good tips. I also know about that. Its good if you run some blog.
izu mou responded on 13 Feb 2009 at 3:10 am #
A very good tips.Nice post for 15 years Old Blogger!
Big responded on 14 Sep 2009 at 12:50 am #
Thanks for sharing. It is trick for me.