Alright so you have your feed set up, you’re publicizing it, yet still no one seems interested in it? Not a problem, here are 15 quick tips that can quickly increase the amount of subscribers to your feed.
- Use images to make your RSS feed “pop”
- Use catchy title like “How to …” and “Discover the secret to success”
- Offer different versions of your feed (easy with FeedBurner, which can automatically do that)
- Use full feeds - most people hate partial feeds
- Offer your feed subscribers something “extra”, maybe an e-book?
- Every once in a while (once a month maybe) write a quick post asking any new readers to subscribe to your feed if they want to get your blog’s updates quickly without having to visit your site
- Don’t feedvertise - I don’t know about you but I hate advertisements inside RSS feeds
- Add your feed to some RSS directories
- Increase your blog’s traffic (a bit obvious, but important nonetheless)
- Whenever you post your blog URL on a forum or similar sites, post your RSS URL as well
- Depending on your niche, don’t post 20 times a day
- Only allow a maximum of 10 posts per feed, if you write long (2000+ word) articles only allow one or two
- Don’t change your posting frequency, try to keep it about the same
- Stay on topic
- Make sure you are advertising your FeedBurner feed URL and not your blog’s feed URL! It is funny how many people forget to
Please subscribe, or else I will cry. Do you really want to make a programmer cry?
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