How To Increase RSS Subscriptions

When I first heard about RSS Subscription, I was not really interested about it until recently when I found out how it can impact your blog for advertisers & search engine traffic. As in the past I used to focus only on opt-in on my blog which today I have gathered well over 1,300 subscribers since I started blogging on this blog. My RSS Subscription did not really start off until just recently about 3 months ago. The reason I wanted more RSS readers was to increase my advertising fees as many networks used RSS count as a factor for advertising on a website.

You can see from the diagram above that my RSS Subscription has been increasing really rapidly so what did I do to have this increase?

1. Increase The Exposure of Your RSS Feed

When I first heard about how RSS Feed was important for blogs, I fire up my imaging program and started to redesign my blog design. You will noticed the new RSS subscription button on the top right of this blog. After installation of that box there with the new design, I got an amazing 3 to 5 subscriptions daily compared only 1 to 2 per day in the past.

2. Register Your Feed With Feedburner

By default all blog have a default RSS inbuilt feeder but to increase the exposure of your feed, you should register your feed with Feedburner. It’s free to sign up and what it does it converts your RSS feed into a well organized feed to get more exposure for your feed.

3. Offer A Full Feed

If you really want to increase your RSS readership, offer a full feed. Many RSS users won’t subscribe to your feed if it’s not full. By default in Feedburner, it only gives you a summary of every feed post. I realized once I changed it to a full feed my unsubscripted to RSS has really reduced by a lot.

4. Do Not Show Your RSS Count When It’s Small

Many blogger made this mistake when they have a fresh new blog with very little readers on their feed, that will actually mislead your readers into thinking your blog has no one reading on it and people will not subscribe to a feed that is small. The recommended number to show your feed count is when you reach at least 100 feed readers before you can publish your feed count.

5. Ask Readers To Subscribe

This is the most simple tactic but there are not many blogs that does this. If you want readers to sign up for your RSS, then just ask them. The best way to ask is at the end of each post, add a line that says, “if you like this post, then consider subscribing to my full feed RSS by clicking here.”

6. Give Incentives For Readers To Sign Up Your Feed

A great way to increase your subscriptions is give incentive when they sign up for your RSS feed. You can run giveaway contest as I have done at this post to encourage readers to subscribe to your feed.

If you like this post, then consider subscribing to my full feed RSS