How to get more RSS subscribers

Random visitors to my blog are nice but getting a new RSS subscriber to my feed is great. I feel that this is truly the most important parameter of a blog, how many people are monitoring it for new posts. So, how does one go and get more readers to subscribe?

1. Place your RSS feed subscription in a prominent part of all pages to make it easier for readers to notice it
2. Track the feed using services such as Feedburner to get more insight on what gets readers interested. (you might also want to consider using the non free ProStats for the reasons discussed in Pronet advertising's What I learned from FeedBurner TotalStats)
3. Allow subscription via email to your RSS feed
4. Set your posting frequency to one that your readers are comfortable with. Posting on regular times makes your reader expect your next post
5. Insert call to action into your RSS feed. Allow people to forward via email or recommend this RSS to a friend
6. And the most important one is ... Write stuff that your readers are interested in. I know that this is a real tricky one as no two readers are the same, but knowing your readers allows you to create better and most suited content for them.

I got the idea for this post from Conversion Rater's post named Believe It Or Not, This Blog is Growing which is a blog that I really like.


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Selling a product... Pasta cooker

The Internet marketing guru Seth Godin just published a post in his blog about the Pasta Express. The Pasta Express is a plastic tube in which you place your pasta and add boiling water. I have to admit that I actually considered buying one when I heard of it. After reading Seth's post named Your pasta problem, I am pretty sure that I won't be buying it anytime soon. This is truely an amazing peace of product marketing that makes me feel I was fooled.


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Tips on finding breaking news

Here's a nice post from ProNet Advertising about finding news sources that can be used to generate content for your blog. It's always hard to find new content for a blog and this tip can bring great value.


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Spreeder - learn to speed read

Spreeder is an online utility which trains you in the skill of speed reading. How does it do this? The main reasons that cause people to read slowly are their natural tendency to verbalize the text they read as well as backtracking to the beginning of sentences to understand the context of a word. Spreeder solves this by showing the text one word at a time at a speed that can be configured. Many people who played around with this application claim it improved their reading skills by more then 200%. Can it improve yours? Try Spreeder and let me know.


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Sling - new flash game

It's been a while since I found a new flash game to share with you. But here comes Sling.
Sling is a green glob of goo consisting of a hand attached to a head by a long strip of springy slime. Players use the mouse to click and drag on Sling’s head, pulling him around to attach him to different items, or pulling back and releasing him to ‘slingshot’ him to another location. Real-world physics are used to model Sling’s springy arm, his motion and collisions.
Just see for yourslef:


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Increase traffic to your site

I found a great collection of articles named "How to Attract Links and Increase Web Traffic -– The Ultimate Guide". This list is a great source of knowledge for any website owner (or blogger) who wants to increase their website visitors. I really liked Seth Godin's "How to Get Traffic For Your Blog".


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What is Technorati?

If you don't know the answer to this question, it might be a good time to checkout Preetam Rai's post about The “tagged web” and Using Technorati for some more information. The basic idea is that Technorati is a tag based index of the blogosphere that allows you to do tag based searches of topics you are looking for. I am using Technorati to get insight on what readers are interested in.


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