RSS–Really Simple Syndication- is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video – in a standardized format.-Wikipedia
How do you get your RSS Feed Subscribers? Just wondering and could use some advice.
Being a blogger I have mostly paid attention to blog rss feeds. But the rest of world mainly sees rss news feeds, technology rss feeds, weather rss feeds, health rss feeds, and marketing rss feeds. These are mainly XML feeds top be read in a nice, easy to use RSS reader. You can find rss feeds using rss feed aggregator and rss feed directory. A lot of the Social Networks have feeds of one sort or another as well. You can get the rss feeds in your email.
I found a cool little dodad on Blog Perfume that looks at your Feedburner RSS Feed called Feed Analysis. It tells you what your feed should be worth and has charts and stats and all that stuff that Bloggers love. My own tiny little feedburner rss feed makes my blog worth about $200 and tells me my banner ads are worth about $3 a month. Blog Perfume has 2644 subscribers and the rss feed tool says their blog is worth about $10,000 dollars and that a banner ad should sell for about $132 a month. Which is one of the reason to publish rss feeds and get as many rss subscribers as possible.
This rss tool only seems to work for Feedburner-but that’s ok since a lot of blogger rss feeds are Feedburner feeds. Of course, most of the Big Blogs have in house rss feeds now, so you can’t use this Feedburner rss feed analyzer to see how much Boing Boing or Endegadget’s RSS Feed is worth. But if you have a Feedburner feed, you can check yourself out.
The RSS Feed business has grown by leaps and bounds and just about every site you find now has an RRS button of one sort or another somewhere near the top of the page. There are a lot of BBC rss feeds, and The Huffinton Post has a wide assortment as well.
The best rss feeds are the ones that can be easily scanned and then your off to the next one. As with all other SEO type stuff, it’s not about the blogger wanting more people to subscribe to their free rss feed-it’s about what the reader can get out of reading your rss feed.
Which is why my RSS Feed is not as large as it could be. I tend to ramble and wander in my blog posts. The standard advice for getting more people to subscribe to your rss feed is to have quality, focused content-which usually means be useful and/or funny and having one subject. It’s also a good idea to let as many people as possible know about your blog and your rss feed.
My current go at getting more RSS Feed subscribers has been to add a line at the bottom of each post reminding readers they can subscribe. My content’s quality is consistently inconsistent. I get a lot of hits from Google-but have a high bounce rate to go with it.
I have joined a small band of other bloggers for Blogging Idol-and have already lost a handful of subscribers since the contest started. Well, nothing like getting off to rollicking good start. Almost all the contestants seem to be in the negative numbers at the moment-so there is some hope it will get better. There is one blog that has rocketed ahead of the rest of the pack with 139 new subscribers-they are using a Pop-Up to get Subscribers!
See, here I am being nice and saying I don’t want to use a pop up to get RSS Feed Subscribers-and the damned pop up works! Of course, there blog is also filled with bloody useful information-but that’s totally beside the point.
Did I mention I’d like you to Subscribe to my RSS Feed while your here? Thanks.
Or should I go to the Dark Side and try a pop up?
