Bad news for anyone who is reading is via RSS, I can only push a half feed. This is because a restriction from wordpress, I have not found the plugin to fix this or maybe the new wordpress release will have a full feed feature.
Since July My RSS feed has been hovering around 900 range. I have grew from 0 subscriber to 900 plus from May to July. In July my RSS feed starts decreasing mainly because I was traveling and did not blog for 2, 3 days.
What is an RSS feed?
An RSS feed is simply an XML formated document of your blog. Most Blog comes with a default RSS feed. RSS is an important promotion tool. Most blog reader used RSS reader like google reader, yahoo, netvibes, blogline etc to track their favorite. RSS reader is an effective tool just like your email client, it announces and collect the latest post form the blog that you subscribed to, therefore save the reader time from having to go back to the actual website.
Feedburner
Without a method to monetize my feed there really is no reason why I should be bother with my RSS feeds but I love it when my feed count goes up. I have about 9000 subscriber which a lot more than other more popular websites. I used feedburner to track my RSS feed. feedburner is a great service. You should sign up for it if don’t already have an account. When you burn a feed with feedburner, you get a code to display the number of subscriber you have on your blog.
The secret of increasing from 0 to 900 subscriber in 4 months
My guess is that you have been reading this post because you want to know the secret. The main technique I used to increase my feed count is content. I post about 4 times a day. Thats it! Bottom line. I have read sometime in February, that he has increased his traffic by posting 4 times a day. I did the same, I did whatever I could, to post 4 times a day. It was tough. I didn’t know how to write, beside writing programming manual I have no recollection of ever writing some remotely human readable. I have read many blogs very day, tried to copy and modified their styles.
I listed some quick tips for anyone who wants to try this route.
- Post more than once. 4 times is good, anything more is a bonus.
- Spread out your posts so user have time to response. I got this from problogger.
- Display a feed count.
- Mix long post with short posts. Long post are pillar articles that you use to anchor your blog. Short post are breaking news, tips, tricks or sharing that require less effort.
- Subscribe to your own feed. Don’t be the last to know if something is wrong with your feed.
- Remove monetization. The fastest way to grow is a ad free feed.
- Run a contest specially just for your RSS subscriber.
- Did I miss anything else?
I would like to run a similar contest for RSS subscriber. What type of prize shall it be? I doubt I can get it sponsored so probably be cash. Not sure about the amount. the contest will being once I get the full feed running.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Thanks for the tips. I definitely think that a blog’s RSS subscribers are important. If you have 1000 RSS subscribers you have a chance of 1000 people reading every article that you post. This is the most stable traffic you could ever target.
October 6th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
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