How to Turn Your Blog Readers into Feed Subscribers
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Educate Your Readers
First thing that can be done is write a brief post or page on the basics of RSS, like what is a RSS? How it can be used and how it can benefit the readers. Try keeping the technical words to a minimum so you don’t confess me.
One way to do this is by a Subscribe Page, link to an video, or a simple statement like “What is RSS” or maybe “Learn more about RSS” located near your RSS button, from there you can explain in more detail.
Highlight the Subscription Options
Now that your reader has some basic knowledge of what is RSS and how it can benefit them, it’s time to entice your readers to subscribe to your RSS feed
Another Option is to allow readers to subscribe to different parts of your wordpress site. You may want let your readers to subscribe by Author, categories or Comments. This can be a good option if you have many authors or a wide variety of categories.
Publicizing Your Feeds
There no point having your RSS feed icon hidden, so it’s important to have them visible to all, one of the recommended area which is largely used will be the top Right or Left corner. You will be able to find mine located at the right hand corner.
Simple php code for your blog which will add the feed link to your head meta so that it can be auto-found by feed subscription software. This is very simple to do and only takes a few minutes, but typically most wordpress themes will have the code inserted already. if it’s not already in place for your blog.
Add the following code in between the <head> and the </head> of your blog’s theme:
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”Title of your Feed” href=”http://www.yeepage.com/to/your/feed.xml” /> (replace yeepage etc with your blog)
For the WordPress bloggers,
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?>” href=”<?php bloginfo(’rss2_url’); ?>” />
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How about reward the reader that subscribe the feed with some free gift…I notice Chris Garret use this method where all his subscriber will get free copy of ebook.
I don’t think “subscribe to comments” is very important. I’m personally looking to replace it with an email subscription icon in my new design. Suthor and category options, on the other hand, sound like very good ideas for a larger blog with a high posting rate.
I think just constantly asking them to subscribe is one of the best options, and making sure that they always haev an easy way to subscribe.