What if you wake up one fine day and find out that the Feedburner count of your blog has simply jumped by a greater value, say 200, 250 or may be 300? Although such an incident is quite rare, especially if your blog is in the nascent stage, but not actually impossible.

Most bloggers have a very hard time gaining even a very few number of RSS Subscribers. But to be very frank, getting new RSS readers is no doubt a joy for all bloggers. So, is there any way out that can actually help you attract more RSS subscribers? Yes, there are simple ways that can change it to reality and below are 10 efficient ones.

#1 Size and placing of RSS icon

The very first point is to make sure that the RSS icon is big enough to be recognized easily. Apart from using an icon, another important point is that you must display it above the fold, exactly where you find in most of the blogs. It is a very common mistake in part of new bloggers to add RSS icon only in the home page. But in order to gain RSS readers you must add it to every page of your blog.

#2 Use of FeedSmith plugin

This particular plugin takes care of the fact that all your subscribers are forwarded to the Feedburner feed. You can then track all the feeds and have full control on formatting.

#3 Implement as few steps as possible

Most readers find it boring with large number of steps. So, the fewer the steps are to subscribe to your blog, the better it is.

#4 Regular and consistent publishing is required

Subscribers look forward to reading more of similar articles, so you must make it a point to publish quite a high number of posts regularly, may be daily. But you must take care that the posts are of similar interests to the subscribers and with valuable content.

#5 Comment on other blogs with your RSS feed link

Most of the bloggers comment on other blogs, either to promote their own blogs or with an intention to generate traffic. Whatever be it, you can always use your RSS feed link instead of blog address or website to attract visitors to subscribe.

#6 Write an ebook and make it downloadable on subscription

eBooks are a part of attraction for most of the Internet users. If you can write a good one with valuable content and good structure you can attract thousands of people. In that way, you can easily make people to subscribe first before they are allowed to download the book.

#7 Cluttering with advertisements

It is very important to keep your RSS feed as clean as possible, as cluttering with too many ads might lead to a real mess and scare away visitors.

#8 Submit on feed Directories

Many people use feed directories to search and find new and their choice of contents and RSS feeds to subscribe. There are a number of feed directories where you can submit yours in order to gain attraction.

#9 Auto-discovery feature has to be working

Edit and enable your auto-discovery feature, which displays a small RSS icon on the right side of the address bar of your blog to make sure it is a valid RSS feed.

#10 Using cross feed

You can find related blogs similar to yours that are having same RSS subscriber base. Try proposing the bloggers of those blogs to use a cross feed that is just to promote his blog on your blog’s feed footer and in return your’s will be on his feed footer.