Increase Your RSS Feed Subscriptions

The question is how to get people to subscribe to your RSS feed?  It’s an excellent question and actually one that I am still working on my self.  Just a quick observation of the blogs in comparison to mine that are around two months old I feel that the amount of subscriptions are going quite well so far but I want to increase them past the sky.  The first thing you should ask yourself is do you have content that is actually worth subscribing to because if not why would you even expect someone to subscribe to it and want to read it.

If you’ve notice I have placed my RSS feed subscription button up top. A problem that I have noticed on some blogs that I have reviewed lately is that they are placing their buttons at the bottom of their blogs or in the midst of a pile of colt err that would take weeks to find like damn contact emails that seem impossible to find on some blogs.
  
Do not be afraid to promote your feed with an image that people can see like my RSS Desperation Button because text links just do not cut it people miss them most of the time.  The way I see it is you have a few seconds once a perspective reader first enters your blog and you of course want to convince them to come back for a second look and the RSS is an excellent ideal to possibly get them back to your site.  SO put the subscription button up top so when they enter they will hopefully see it and then sometimes they still will not see SO maker it bigger if you have too.  Another method for promoting your feed is the use articles that generate traffic. Consider those posts as key entry areas that people could possibly see your Feed Link and subscribe. Just get creative use any method of promotion you can think of to get readers to your RSS FEED subscription page. Then at a last resort you could even run an Ad Campaign on Google Adwords if you are truly desperate to get the increase in RSS readers.
  
Now last but not least it is about time you started educating your readers on what RSS has to offer.  Maybe your readers are not aware of what RSS is or how to even use it.  Say your blog is a non tech related blog and your readers are not aware of what RSS is then write a post that explains what it is to them. Then add a RSS button that links to your post. FeedBurner also offers an email service and this is an excellent alternative to getting the readers that refuse to use RSS no matter how much you enlighten them on the subject. Start offering full feeds to your RSS subscribers and make sure your readers know about your offer. Yes I know there has been much debate over full and partial but there many examples out there that show your numbers will increase as soon as you start offering the full feeds. 

Oh one more thing have you already subscribe to my RSS, Yes You then CLICK here.