10 Do’s And Don’ts To Increase Your RSS Count!
These days RSS count became the important factor to decide the popularity of the Blogs.You can’t deny that right? Yes,We have to agree to the fact anyway:) .But why this became the deciding factor now.Ha that’s just because think for a second,what would be in your mind when you see a 10k RSS count blog and 100 count blog.Good got the answer right?
We can’t imagine the count how many blogs coming to web daily.Apart from normal(search engine) visitors,each and every blogger is subscribing and following one or the other blog for sure.This is how the chain goes and pushes RSS factor up and up.So, we need to go with the market and for that we need certain respectable counts on our blogs.
Everything is fine but,How to push the count up? and what are Do’s and Don’ts around this? Ha today we are going around all about RSS,Tips to increase,Do’s and Don’ts.Here we Go…
Do’s: These are the basic/startup tips which you can follow to increase your count to certain extent.
- Offer easy and handy subscribe forms on all the pages of your blog
- Remind your first time visitors to subscribe, by offering form at start/end of your article
- Put a single and effective word beside subscription form saying “Subscription is free and it won’t cost/disturb you in anyway”
- Explain your visitors about benefits they get by subscribing
- Be active on blogging by posting consistently or daily
- Say thanks and ask your each and every commenter to subscribe to your feeds.
- Run some contests and offer prizes to your random Subscribers and Offer a full feed
- Develop and post a privacy policy for your Web site.
- Ask your friends/colleagues to subscribe and refer to their contacts too
- Monitor your feedburner weekly and take corrective action toward ‘Unverified’ and ‘Inactive’ subscribers.
For more, here are the detailed tips saying ‘50 Ways To Push Your RSS Count’.
Don’ts: These are the basic/startup things which you shouldn’t do to keep live in blogosphere and to get more count on your chicklet.
- Don’t disturb people by subscribing their mail ids intentionally and ask them to verify the link
- Don’t gamble the count with Photoshop or by any means
- Don’t take rest for too many days with out posting
- Don’t use pop-ups asking to subscribe to feeds or email newsletter with Aweber
- Don’t hide/remove the unsubscribe option.Allow users to unsubscribe when don’t want the service
- Your subscribers mail id list is an asset that only you can use; do not sell or rent it
- Personally Don’t email your subscribers asking to do some favor.This will decrease your status
- Don’t ask people to donate bucks until you have a non-profit and useful blog
- Don’t offer the books download for subscribing unless they are own/written by you
- Don’t mail and ask the Reasons to people unsubscribed from your list
This is all about the RSS and Story around it 
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Do you agree to the fact that RSS became deciding factor? OR How important is the count? Share with us! Happy Blogging!
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Hmm Toooo great post here dude..
Love love the analysis and 10 are solid i must say.Keep rocking yar
Totally impressed and subscribed
Great work lax!
Lax the 10th point you mentioned is quite right ,this situation of a subscriber has unsubscribed will happen to all bloggers then asking the feedback is not good reason ,but it’s all up to subscriber give the proper reason for unsubscribing which makes sense.
@Softhydit,
Thanks for the great word dude.
@Evelyn,
Thanks for commenting and also for subscribing
@Venkat,
Yes,10th one is good and we shouldnt Do that again and again.
Thanks for your opinion dude.
I Do agree with you for some of the points in do’s and don’ts. But some of don’t can be done to some extent to improve your blog Reputation.
Finally i love the point.Good to share around.
@Steve,
Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts here.If possible pls Do explain elaborately to my readers
Anyway thanks for your great words and keep coming….
Laxman,
Great tips indeed bud. Reminds me of the Blogging Idol competition
Btw, I have a strong urge to use that popup thingie but my ethical half is pulling me back.
Monitoring the RSS email http://www.techzoomin.com/simple-firefox-plugin-to-get-back-all-your-unverified-subscribers-into-feedburner-count/“>Subscribers for any Unverified/inactive accounts is one thing I Do regularly. But so far, I did not have much luck with the unverified category – probably one out of ten listens.
Another thing that doesn’t add much value is the instant Boost you get via contests that ask ppl to signup with email. Most of them unsubscribe after the deal is over, I think. Any thoughts on this?
Cheers, Ajith
@Ajith,
First thanks for your great words and opinion here.
I agree with you till some extent on the contests thing:
Contest only will help in getting instant count as you said,But if your blog is really worth more and if you succeded in satisfying the reader.I don’t think they will unsubscribe.
Its my opinion
Agree?
Nothing wrong said by lax.
Till the getting http://www.techzoomin.com/simple-firefox-plugin-to-get-back-all-your-unverified-subscribers-into-feedburner-count/“>Subscribers is the contests aim around everyone.But if you fail to retain them its all bulls waste.
I like the Don’ts presentation! Thanks
You are absolutalamentaly (tigger lingo from ‘Winnie The Pooh’) righto…
@Ajith,
Didn’t get what Do you mean by that..
Think it is spam
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@Nicholas,
How can you hack to get 2500 over night
. I never heard about hacking RSS count.How to ?
I don’t agree using pop up or light box is one of don’t Do things…I use light box in my blog and it does increase my subscriber count..
excellent tips.. rally must follow for a blog..