50 Ways To Push Your RSS Count
Many of you know that i participated actively on my first ever blogging contest Blogging Idol hosted by my friend Daniel. What i learned from that? Why i participated? Well, My primary intension was to learn something new, not on winning the contest.
I learned many things from the contest like how to communicate with the Readers to ask them for the support i need to win the title,New ideas like whom to contact,Email request asking to subscribe,commenting actively to gain the peoples attention and many more like this.But the main aim is: increase RSS count,daily visitors and win the title. This is what i followed to gain 130 RSS readers in just 30 days time.
Total 104 competitors at the contest and every one tried their level best to gain RSS count. And they shared all the strategies they followed to gain the count.Daniel summed up some of them with his own strategies for us.Here am sharing them in brief with you.
- Have a big RSS icon
- Display the RSS icon above the fold
- Display the RSS icon on every page of your blog
- Use words
- Write a post asking for people to subscribe
- Use the FeedSmith plugin
- Offer email subscriptions
- Use an email subscription form
- Encourage readers to subscribe at the bottom of every post
- As few steps as possible
- Use icons to offer subscription on the most popular RSS readers
- Have clear focus on your blog
- Publish new posts frequently and consistently
- Don’t exaggerate
- Write valuable content
- Write unique content
- Don’t ramble or go off topic
- Use your RSS feed link when commenting on other blogs
- Run a contest
- Offer random prizes to your Subscribers
- Write guest posts
- Welcome the new readers
- Go popular on social Bookmarking sites
- Explain to your readers what is RSS
- Have a special “Subscribe” page with all the info and links there
- Create a landing page on your blog to convert visitors in subscribers
- Send traffic to that page using PPC
- Write an ebook and ask people to subscribe in order to download it
- Launch an email newsletter with Aweber
- Offer a full feed
- Clutter your website with ads
- Don’t clutter your RSS feed with ads
- Use social proof
- Offer breaking news
- Mention that subscribing to your blog is free
- Use pop-ups to encourage subscription to your newsletter
- Use an animated RSS feed icon to draw attention
- Use feed Directories
- Email first time commentators encouraging them to subscribe
- Make sure the feed auto-discovery feature is working
- Offer a comments feed
- Offer category feeds
- Run periodic checks on your feeds
- Recover Unverified email subscribers
- Leverage an existing blog or audience
- Use cross feed promotion
- Use testimonials on your “Subscribe” page
- Get friends to recommend your site and RSS feed on their blog
- Do something funny or weird while asking for people to subscribe
- Start a long series so people subscribe to keep update with it
If you want to read in detail about each and every headline, You can find them at DailyBlogTips. So, I would recommend you to participate in the contests where ever they live and learn something new to improve your blog.
By this time you might convinced to grab my RSS as well 
Which strategy you are following? Share with us!Happy Blogging!
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It seems to be you missed the chance of winning the contest at Dailyblogtips. But don’t worry Lax your blog is young and you will have many more like this in future.
Keep rocking like this only
I had read this at DBT, but you have put it in a nice way. I am truly liking your blog
@TJG,
Thanks dude for pushing me always.
@Raju,
Thanks for your comments Raju.
Keep coming
subscribed and voted
all the best!!
Lax,
I like your way of thinking “Learn something while trying to win it”.
Keep rocking you will win some time. Voted already
Simply Love your blog and way you write the articles.
Subscribed and voted to you dailyblogtips. i see Comment alot on the blogs right?
That inspried me to Do the same on good blogs like yours
Nice list. And great new layout! Thanks for sharing.
Dam good collection man love it
I don’t think increasing this RSS count is neccessary on blogging..
DOn’t know why every one is crazy about this count.
@Blogging For Novice,
Thanks for your comments apple!
@Kalyan,
Thanks for your comments!
@Dara,
Thanks for your comments!
@Dara,
Forgot respond on your Comment.
I Do agree one who really want to blog doesn’t need to bother about the RSS count and Comments on blog..
Just focus on content and you will get success…….
hai brother, great work.keep going on .rock the blog
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Its half century tricks,
Great work, thanks for sharing all those tricks.
@Ramya,
Thanks buddy… You too commented on my blog..wow great
@Chetan,
Thanks for your first comments here.
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When I first saw this blog that you host a commenting contest, I told myself that I need to win this contest for some reasons.
Upon doing comments on this blog, I have noticed earlier that my RSS feed count reach 120 readers.
Since I burn a new feed for my current blog because of adsense for feed. So I can earn money from my feeds.
I have checked my analytics, and I found out that most of my visitors came from TechZoomIn commenting contest participants.
Then I conclude that doing <a href=”http://sighnetdollars.blogspot.com/2009/09/9-effective-tips-to-get-notice-by-other.html”comments to get notice by other bloggers is one of the best technique.
By the way, does using my feed link to Comment other blogs helpful on Promoting my blog? or feed only?
The link hyperlink above was a typo mistake. Try the link below to this doingcomments to get notice by other bloggers
Having a Big Icon and offering guest post really increase the rss count, but i am not sure how feed directories help in improving it, i will give it a try.
Thanks for big tip list. I hope i can have good subscriber count