Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers

Bloggers like to have more and more RSS readers. Just imagine when you wake up one day and see that your RSS subscriber count jumped by 300 or 400. Amazing right?

So what are the ways we can pull in more RSS subscribers to the site? Here I have written few ideas for you. Try these and see the results.

1. Have a big RSS button

What everyone are looking for is big one's remind that in mind. So if you use a little RSS icon, visitors may not find it. So make sure the icon is large but not overlarge.

2. Display it above the fold

Make sure that you display it above the fold. Many bloggers don’t scroll down to find the RSS feed. Remind that in mind.

3. Display the RSS in every page

Most of the people are not just subscribe to your blog. Some might read few articles, and if satisfied then looking for a RSS feed. So you must display the feed in every page.

4. Explain RSS

Not every reader is familiar with what the RSS feed is. So write a small but catchy little sentence explaining what the RSS is.

5. Offer email subscriptions

As I said before not every reader knows what the RSS feed is! Believe it or not it's about only 10%. So one thing you can do is using an email newsletter. Make it weekly or twice a month depending on your rate. But don’t overwhelm you reader by filling out his inbox. AWEBER gives you the opportunity for this service.

6. at the bottom of every post

As explain in 3rd point, some people want to subscribe after reading the post. So put some link to subscribe just after the end of the post.

7. Don’t jumble your RSS feed with ads.

People will unsubscribe it for sure

8. Animated RSS feed icon

People like things that are attractive. So if you use an attractive RSS icon, an animated one your RSS subscriptions will jump up over night.

 

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Why You Must Join a Blog Network

There are many positives about joining a blog network as a Blogger. If I get to the points straight.

 

1. Relationships

if you ask bloggers who are in blog networks why are they in it, majority of them will say that they enjoyed being a part of something larger than there own Blogs and they got to know many bloggers in there same niche. Many blog networks have there own communicating systems like forums, emails, chat etc. so it's very easy to communicate with others and easy to share pros & cons.

2. Traffic

When I first started blogging it was very hard to find traffic at that time. In present even we have many ways to find traffic, joining a blog network is also a good way to drive in traffic. But you have to write good content. Many networks have ways of promoting Blogs via spotlighting top posts of that week etc.

3. Expertise

Not many bloggers have the experience in running successful blog. But if you join a blog network. These can handle many of the technical aspects like web design, SEO optimization, finding advertisers like that. This allows bloggers to simply just write. But remember you can't expect everything from the network.

4. SEO

One of the biggest plus point of being in a blog network is you can be linked to each other blog in the network. As you have many links to other web site from your site, the chance of ranking higher on the Search Engines gets higher.

5. Prestige

As the experience grows, if you can get writing for one of the biggest networks on the blog, you can put that to your advantage by building your own image.

6. Learning

If you are new to blogging, joining a blog network is a good learning material to get started. Because you can practice your own theory as you like.

 

These are only pros I have talked about in this post. But remember anything has its pros and cons.

Why to use Amazon Affiliate?

Amazon associate program is worth considering for some bloggers. Well it's not my primary income stream but by using it I earn good money. The reasons I recommend mason associate program are,

1. it’s a trusted brand

Just ask your self have you ever heard of Amazon? I’m sure 98% of you will say yes. The reason because it has been on the internet for a long time and have registered in people's mind as a trusted brand and it is a trustworthy.

2. Commissions

Today large numbers of people are buying things online. So someone went to Amazon through your site and purchase something you will get 4% for the referral. You stand a chance to grow this up to 7%. Sounds good haa!

3. People buy more than single item

As people wandering through Amazon there's a big chance that they going to buy few items than they first thought.

4. Variety of payment options

If you want they will pay you in cash and if you want they will pay you even in products.

5. Seasons are boom

The sales you're getting from Amazon gets so high in the Christmas and New Year season because more people buying items. So remind this in your self.

SO DO YOU WANT TO BE A PART OF AMZON AFFILIATE? GO ON...

How Google Ranks Blogs

Different from most blog search engines, Google blog search ranks its results by relevance. You can customize it by clicking on "sort by date", but the default is useful if you want to find the most substantial blog posts.

But how does Google rank blog posts???

Positive signs	Negative signs
Links from quality sites Page rank The number of feed readers Clicks in search results Links from mail, chats etc.	Posts added at a certain time The size of repeat content Using words that appear frequently in spam Blogs Linking to a one web page A large number of ads

 

We cleared that Google uses all kinds of factors to decide the popularity and the quality of a blog. But this doesn't mean less popular Blogs are dropped out if they have relevant content. But you should try to avoid the cons that may signal that the blog is spam.  

Write Your Most Popular Article Ever

One popular post can bring you more traffic and links than a months work on your usual method. 

Below points will you give you some sort of help to tackle this task. Read carefully and take it to your self.

1. Explore

Before starting to write explore similar stories that have published before. Try to get an idea from it and try to write better than that. 

2. Time is important than talent

You can improve or buy the talent. But you can't do anything to time. So what you have to do is invest more time in improving talent. 

3. Write the best

Write the best ideas on posts. Think different. Think about something that will get popular that others are not writing. Use the best ideas to express your self.

4. Headlines

People read title before reading the content. So you must write brainstorming title that inspires the reader to reader to read full article.

5. Add links

If people find your article interesting they will want to read similar stories about it. Add few links that they might want to read.

6. Research

Research what have worked before. Try to answer your self, why did they work kind of questions.

7. Criticism

Take criticism. They will inspire and force you to write more good content than before. Take criticism as a bonus.

 

            

Art of Writing Catchy

 1. CONTENT

The more useful and catchy content a website has the more successful it will be. Because more people will want to visit it and also they will want to come back over again.

2. READ

The more you read the more ideas and creativity you will get. Then you will find a way to stand out from the crowd.

3. REJECT UNNECESSARY

A sentence should not contain unnecessary words and a paragraph, no unnecessary sentences. Don’t write just because you have to, you are not doing any good but damaging your image.

4. PASSION

You must write on a topic that you are passionate about. Only then you will get an inspiration to write. If you have passion to write the ideas will float in to you.

5. Use images

When you are entering a new web page. The first thing you see is not the content, what you see is the images that have used there. Use out of the box images.

6. Keep it short and simple

Keep it short and simple as you are talking to the person next to you. Simple words can be easily understood by your reader and it's easy to pass the message.

7. Write

Write and keep writing something. The more you write the more you read and the more you read the more you gain ideas.

8. Unique

Making up your own style of doing things is uniqueness. Its' a good way to stand out from the crowd.

Boost your blog traffic! MUST READ!!!

The easiest way to give your blog a traffic boost is by submitting your web site URL's to search engines. You'll say the search engines will some how find my site even without submitting. But why not making it easy for search engines to get to know about your site, rather than waiting until they do?

Below links can submit your websites to the most popular search engines in the world.

 

GOOGLE

YAHOO

TECHNORATI

THE OPEN DIRECTORY

MSN LIVE SEARCH

P.S - Submitting your site to a Search Engine will not boost your web traffic by

overnight. It depends on your quality content.

Twitter What is it really?

Twitter has really grown up its popularity since its start in March 2006 as a side project in offices in the SoMA in CA. now all around the world; people follow twitter to follow the blogs on their same niche.

            To get the best from the twitter you can build a link on your blog and encourage your readers to follow you via twitter. On the other side you can shout about your latest post on twitter. So people who are following you can see you have posted a new one without even accessing your site. You can also update your facebook status from twitter. One thing you must avoid is overloading twitter with linking to every post that you write. It will frustrate your followers and sure they will turn away. I suggest you better pickup 1 post a day and post the link to the twitter. Another thing is posting variety of things. This will not bored your followers and you can come across more and more followers.

            If you are beginner to twitter, take your time and look what are things people are linking via twitter. Try to get a good look before kick starting. This will give you a good feeling and experience how twitter can be used. Search for few articles on Google about using twitter.

I recommend you to read "How to Use Twitter - Tips for Bloggers" by problogger.

7 Ways to improve your traffic

1. Content

Your readers are like customers. They always look for new things. Having quality content that is updating frequently will keep your customers coming back and back.

2. Newsletters

These are like reminders. People always logging into their email so maintaining a newsletter will keep your readers updated. But don’t overload your subscriber’s inbox. Send it about once a week or so. 

3. Running contests

These get people involved in your site very much. Make it interesting and giveaway attractive prizes. Also don’t forget to include rules page.

4. Giveaway free items

Giving away free e-books has really worked for me in one of my websites. Not only e-books, there are so many things you can give away online with less budget. You can download free e-books here

5. Analytics

Use analytics software’s to track your traffic. Do some researches and find out what sources sends you more traffic and what people read the most on your site. I recommend Google Analytics.

6. Create links

Create links to other web sites on your niche. As they see your website link in there analytic software. They will do the same and will create links on there sites linking you.

7. Give your best

Focus on your niche and give the best ideas you have. Don’t stock it on your head. Express your self to the world.

Write Articles, Not Blog Posts

Recently I went through an amazing article named, Write Articles, Not Blog Posts. It's a bit long article but as I read it I got to know that even though it's long, It has many things to get not only for a beginner but for the professionals too.

So I invite all to read the article. by Jakob Nielsen