Comments on: Five Tips on How To Increase FeedBurner Subscribers

By: David

David — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:46:36 +0000

Nice article and good tips, keep up the good work

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By: Mike Huang

Mike Huang — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:04:53 +0000

Out of all those great tips, I think I should follow #4. Although it seems easy, I think having your friends refer others might be a bit difficult.

-Mike

By: Abi

Abi — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:07:08 +0000

I use number of medias to promote my blog, mailing list is one of them, because mailing list is the place where mass people are hang out everyday. thus it’s a potential place to introduce mine to dozens or hundreds eyes and i gain big success with it

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:34:50 +0000

@ David,

Sometimes I am not a very bright individual…

@ Forest,

I understand where you’re coming from about web based readers not knowing what RSS is. It would then be your job as the author to educate and inform them of why it can benefit them. Also, like you said, most readers who don’t know what RSS is do know what an email newsletter is.

Email newsletters are very old school (in fact something I still prefer). I have a few sites such as Airplane Blog that really only actively promote the email notification service.

There are a few reasons why I do that, one of which is the fact that I know my audience are mainly people who are more familiar and comfortable with email newsletters rather than RSS subscriptions. It’s a balance, because also too the people who do know about RSS somewhat automatically know that when they see the FeedBurner Chicklet and the RSS Icon in their browser, the RSS subscription option is there.

@ Laura,

I am very happy that you find that tip helpful. Welcome to my blog, I hope that I have captured your interest enough to gain you subscribing to my feed.

By: Forest Parks

Forest Parks — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:57:37 +0000

Thanks Garry. I am trying to oncrease my subscribers to 50 right now and have at present done nothing about it.

I think I like the idea of emailing my friends. Sadly a lot of people who are not bloggers really don’t understand the RSS idea so I know it’s important that I get an email my feed option for all of those.

By: David Cooley

David Cooley — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:11:16 +0000

Good stuff, of course for me just knowing that you trust me made my day !

@Dick, you refer to just sending a few lines of the post. This is actually done a lot, but most bloggers have learned that using Full Feeds works better than just Summary Feeds. I personally read (browse) a couple hundred feeds daily, when something really hits me, I go to the site. But if I was forced to visit each of those sites I would simply have to unsubscribe from some of them due to time constraints.

By: Laura Zurowski

Laura Zurowski — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:00:16 +0000

I loved the suggestion about explaining RSS – bloggers and other tech savvy folks tend to forget that the majority of the population isn’t quite up to speed on tools that we are very familiar with. Taking a few sentences to describe what your communication methods are may help readers to develop an interest in your site. I’ll be using this tip for future projects!

By: Dick Hillenbrand

Dick Hillenbrand — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:04:46 +0000

Gary, I know that I am in the minority among all you super bloggers, but I am having second thoughts about soliciting subscribers, and here is why. It seems as though whether the subscriber reads your post in an email reader or an RSS news reader, then they lose some of what your total package has to offer. They do not get to appreciate the theme that you worked so hard to develop. They also do not see what is in your margins, your adsense, your affiliates, your list of most popular posts, your Blogroll, and so on.
I’m thinking that someone should come up with a way to encourage readers to COME HOME TO THE BLOG PAGE! Maybe it is just me, but when I have a Blog that I like to read, such as this one, I go out of my way to always click the title and visit the author’s own Blog site. It seems to me to offer an overall better enjoyment of just what the writer is attempting to convey.

Do subscribers really help stats or hurt them? If there was a way to send just the first few lines of a posting, and when the reader could click the link to take them to the site to read the rest, seems to me would be better.

If anyone can convince me that I am wrong I would love to hear about it.

By: Making Sales Making Money

Making Sales Making Money — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:04:11 +0000

“Take 10 people, your most closest email buddies and send them an individual email and ask them if they wouldnâ€™t mind taking a moment to send an email”

This is exactly what I put in my newsletter this week,

Thanks , Don