Why You Should Want More Subscribers and How to Get Them
Circulation is as vital to blogs as it is for other media like newspapers or magazines. Imagine that you could only get the latest copy at the news stand instead of having it sent home to you on the day of publication. Subscribers are the backbone of any greater magazine or newspaper and they can also become the backbone of your blog. Just think about the consistency and power that lies in having a great subscriber base.
Daily visitors usually go up and down and can be hard to predict. Trying to woe those who may come by when you publish something may prove pointless as you have little idea who it will be. Instead write for your subscribers. Think of them as individuals, but address them as a group. They are your core readers and may just prove to be the difference between success and failure.
Having outlined the technical aspects as well as the basic definitions you need to know in Introducing Content Syndication and Explaining Its Importance the following articles concentrate on why and especially how to build your subscriber base. On the face of it does it seem that subscribing via RSS or Email is primarily a benefit to the user, but there is more to it than that.
Having a growing number of subscribers has also the benefit that you get more and more people who are waiting eagerly for your next post. That is certainly a whole lot more satisfying than posting and waiting to see if anyone shows up to read what you wrote. Furthermore is it an indication of being on the right track. That you are continuously producing great content that people want to keep reading.
The Real Secret to Getting Tons of Blog Subscribers
“No one wants to believe that there’s no magical secret. They’d rather fantasize about some forbidden copywriting technique that drives subscriber attraction. If I’d just share the magical words that make the difference, they’d immediately put those words to use. OK, I give up. I’ll tell you the real secret.”
How We Took a Blog From 0 to 1000 Subscribers in just 9 Days
“Though I wish it was a completely replicable experience, much of the blogs success was thanks to a few measures of luck and mystery. Nonetheless there are five critical factors that I believe contributed to our success.”
10 Ways I Got 4,700 Subscribers in Three Months
“I started this blog hoping for slow growth, over the course of years. Instead, I have been astounded by the rapid growth this little blog has achieved, and the overwhelming positive response from all of you.”
0 to 12,000 RSS Subscribers: Ways to Attract More Subscriptions
“That’s the beauty of RSS feed. If a web site adds value to its readers, and its feed gives enough materials for user to read, readers will keep the RSS subscription and keep coming back for more. Let me share number of ways which I learned during these two years on RSS feeds. You could grow your RSS subscriptions from 0 to 12,000 as well.”
10 Effective Ways to Get More Blog Subscribers
“The question I seem to be getting over and over these days is… How did you get 6,000 subscribers in 10 months? The answer is simple — I value subscribers more than any other measure of blog success, such as page views or raw traffic. Subscribers are the life blood of a successful blog in my opinion, and frankly, I wish I had more of them.”
Why You Should Build Your Feed Subscriber Base: Benefits and Perspectives
“Subscribing to a web feed allows one to centralize a large number of websites and monitor them through a feed reader, which is a basically a funnel which channels content right to your browser window or desktop. Feed subscriptions are primarily a user benefit and I’ve always wondered how encouraging readers to subscribe to your blog feed benefits the blogger in question.”
Building Your RSS Subscriptions
“A growing amount of people are becoming VERY savvy when it comes to reading blogs. With the emergence of RSS readers like FeedReader, Bloglines and Google Reader it is possible to take hundreds of feeds and put them in one location, making it perfect for skimming titles to find something you might be interested in reading. … Unfortunately, many bloggers are not taking full advantage of their RSS subscription feature in order to capture the return visitor and push traffic to new posts.”
10 Sure-Fire Ways to Get RSS Readers Visiting Your Blog
“Create a user experience IN your RSS feed and you’ll find that the benefits will flow on. You might not draw all your readers over to your blog every day - but they will come across from time to time and more importantly many of them will find what you produce useful enough to pass it on to others.”
Having a growing number of regular readers is in itself a joy. Even with improved possibilities of monetizing your feed and having people come over from the feed once in a while may that still not be what you imagined though. It is thus also worth thinking about how else you can motivate and move your visitors and subscribers. Not only from blog to feed, but also from feed to blog.
Moving readers is mainly a question of how you motivate them. For example can making certain features or benefits available only to visitors or subscribers respectively push them in the wanted direction. You should not try to be too clever about it though. Respect them and provide what they are looking for and you may not only win them over, but also have them recommend you to someone else thus enabling you to sustain the growth of your readership.
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This is a great lineup of links. As an aspiring magazine, I am very interested in increasing subscriptions!
Thanks!
Well, if reading these articles doesn’t help you nothing will
Best of luck!
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First off, I find that getting readers really depends on your topic. If you are attracting people that can barely check their email, or people that are not techy (common in many niches I have dealt with), then you might be out of luck when they say “whats a blog?”.
Second, thanks for all of those quality references to blog posts. This is the kind of blog that I like, since I dont have time to gather data across so many topics so fast. There are lots of good niche blogs, but too many random posts that clutter quality info that I seek. This is why blogrolls are dull for me.
Third: Persistance and quality information are the two main ingredients in a good blog, or good business for that matter. One repeat reader is worth 50 times what a single “one-time” visitor is worth.
P.S. For some reason, I dont see underlines on your outbound links, and their color is almost the same as the regular text on my screen. Can you make your links a little more obvious?
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