Hey Search Engine Visitors…. Subscribe To My RSS Feed!

I got bored tonight and started checking my stats (David Cooley has a heart attack now! Yes!! You CyberCoding fool, I spent some time checking my stats! LOL!!!) He always gets on to me for never using trigonometry to analyze my stats.

Anyway, I was amazed to discover that a very low percentage of my traffic are from regular readers via RSS compared to the total amount of daily traffic my site gets.

Almost 60% of my traffic come direct from search engines. These typically are first time visitors who stumble onto an older post that I have written, read it and never come back again.

We’re going to change that!

The above shot is for Monday, showing that I had 4,743 visits with 7,860 pages views. The very first shot shows that almost 60% of my visits came from search engines.

This screen shot came from FeedBurner which basically says that my RSS feed had been requested 801 times in a 24 hour period. The reach, from what I understand, basically says how many times things were clicked via the content in RSS.

Regular RSS Reader traffic doesn’t account for much against my total amount of daily traffic. The way I see it, the number of RSS requests equates to the equivalent of around 16% of my normal site traffic.

What does that mean? Well, it actually means that I am doing a piss poor job with self promotion. I should be focusing MORE on advertising my RSS feed and getting this 84% of traffic to subscribe to my RSS feed.

How can I get get more people to subscribe? Simple… informing them about it will help. I don’t really need to pitch people about my RSS feed. It is more of an issue of awareness. What I am going to do is put myself into the shoes of an incoming reader direct for a search engine and make a small advertisement directly above and below my individual posts.

The advertisement on the top of the page will say this:

“After you finish reading this page, take a moment to subscribe to my RSS feed.” or something along those lines.

The advertisement on the bottom of the page will say this:

“If you enjoyed reading this page, you might consider subscribing to my RSS feed. This is a quick and easy way to receive more articles like the one you just read.” or something like that.

Wish me luck, I really want to buckle down and work hard (and smart) on increasing my readership. I have been wanting to get my RSS numbers up to 1,000 for a long time and it is almost there! But I have been stuck in the 700’s for a long time. I am ready to put forth some real good effort towards increasing to 1000! (This is the part where you cheer me on.)

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