Darren Rowse from ProBlogger.net shares some tips on how to increase the subscriber numbers of your blog. Darren Rowse, born 27 April 1972, is a full time blogger, speaker, consultant and founder of several blogs and blog networks – including TwiTip and Digital Photography School. He currently lives in Melbourne in Australia.
Wikipedia: RSS, commonly translated as “Really Simple Syndication”, is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works.
Apart from the tips in the video, there is a lot of automated solutions for promoting your RSS feeds. WordPress offers several plugins that are easy to handle and people have reported some good results after using them.
WordPress Plugins For RSS Management
1. What Would Seth Godin Do
New visitors to your blog will see a small box above each post containing the words “If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!” After 5 visits the message disappears.
2. Subscribe Remind
With the Subscribe-Remind plugin, some text will automatically be placed at the end of each of your posts inviting your readers to subscribe to your RSS feed.
3. Subscribe Widget
This plugin will create rss2, comments rss, twitter and feedburner icons in your blogs sidebar. If you want you can disable these icons one by one and only leave those which are needed.
4. FeedBurner Widget
FeedBurner Widget is very simple sidebar widget plugin to easy customize and display your FeedBurner subscribers stats button. The widget is updated to work with the new FeedBurner URIs after the Google changes.
5. FeedStats
Simple statistictool for feeds – get statistics about your readers that come from your RSS. Options such as seeing their time on a page, exclude specific IPs and more.
6. MediaRSS
MediaRSS is a way of embedding media into your feeds – audio, video, etc. Easily increase the types of media that you can embed in your posts for RSS consumption.
You can find more plugins for your WordPress blog here: 18 WordPress Plugins for RSS Management and Tweaks.
Wikipedia: A web feed is a document (often XML-based) whose discrete content items include web links to the source of the content.
Recommended Reading
1. 10 Effective Ways to Get More Blog Subscribers
10 specific strategies you can begin to implement today and start getting more blog subscribers right away. Article by Brian Clark from Copyblogger.com.
2. 11 Ways to Find New RSS Subscribers for Your Blog
Once you are pumping out quality content here are a few tips on how to get more subscribers for it. By Darren Rowse (from the video above) on ProBlogger.net.
3. 30 tips to Maximize your RSS Feed Subscribers
Making the most out of your blog posts – ways in which you can maximize your RSS subscribers. Article by Blogohblog.com.
4. What Causes Subscribers to Read Your Blog’s Feed?
Have you ever thought about what makes your feed appealing enough to your subscribers that it actually gets read? Informative article by Steven Snell on Daily Blog Tips
5. Ad Management Plug-Ins And Tutorials For Your Website
A collection of ad management plug-ins for WordPress, Movable Type, Drupal and Joomla to get your started. A great collection by Cameron Chapman on SmashingMagazine.
6. 50 Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers
Most bloggers love their RSS readers. Not only that, but they also love to gain new RSS readers. Daniel Scocco presents 50 easy to implement ideas to get more subscribers.
RSS Resources
1. Building and Using an RSS Feed
Tutorial with example by Denis Sureau. Learn the basics of RSS to understand how you and your website can benefit from it. Cover topics like: why use RSS, how to publish news in a RSS feed, building personal RSS feed and more.
2. IceRocket Free RSS Builder
RSS Builder is an easy to use service to create RSS feeds for your website. It provides a simple interface that lets you add topics, links and content, and then publish the RSS feed to your web server with one click.
3. RapidFeeds
RapidFeeds.com is a popular free RSS Feed solutions provider. Using this service you can Create RSS Feeds online, Publish Podcast Feeds and Track RSS Feeds. Easily edit any of your running feeds with a click of a button and make sure they remain updated.
4. FeedMingle
Mixes all the feeds provided and creates one RSS feed, Atom feed, JSON feed, and a html widget to simply paste into your website or blog. It can be used as a RSS/Atom to JSON converter, RSS/Atom to widget generator, RSS to Atom or Atom to RSS Converter.
5. FeedStitch
Side by side with RSS feed merging FeedStich can combine direct data feeds from Delicious, GitHub, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr and give you one master feed. You can republish the data however you want.
6. Feedmil
Feedmil is a feed search engine featuring a spam-free, topic-focused search for a variety of feed types including blogs, microblogs, public and social media feeds as well as podcasts. Search feeds of interest in the most easiest possible way.
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