7 tricks to increase your feed readers count.
By Jacky Supit • Dec 9th, 2007 • Category: blogging tips - blogging tricksAs I have mentioned before that increasing feed readers count is so easy if we have already had a big number. But what if we don’t have it yet? How to easily increase our feed readers count? Here on this article, I will give you 7 tricks to increase our feed readers count.
Lucky for us, there are many big blog with thousands of feed readers out there we can learn of. So here I will put some big blogs with many feed readers as an example.
1. Use a welcome text, and put it on top inside of your post content.
weblogtoolscollection.com has about 8k feedreaders, and they use this trick.
Thanks for visiting! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. This blog posts regular Wordpress news, updates of themes, plugins, ideas, hacks, quick fixes and everything about blogging, especially with Wordpress. Go ahead, subscribe to our feed!
Be creative, you can modify some words with your own.
2. Ask reader to subscribe after they read your article on each post footer.
this seems to be the most popular trick, almost all bloggers use this on their blog.
If you like this post then please consider subscribing to my full feed RSS. You can also subscribe by Email and have new posts sent directly to your inbox.
3. Make a list.
Seems everybody love a list. so why not provide them one or two or hundreds?
There are so many sites getting bigger because they create lists, and people just love list. so why don’t you create your own? weblogtoolscollection.com, makeuseof.com, 45n5.com.
And did you realize that I write this article as a list too? 
4. Provide an easy way for your reader to subscribe.
Darren Rowse of problogger.net provides the email form too on his blog. Here are some of the most popular feed reader online on the web (listed by TechCrunch).
- Attensa Online
- Bloglines
- FeedLounge
- Google Reader
- Gritwire
- News Alloy
- NewsGator Online
- Pluck Web Edition
- Rojo
5. Make a useful product for your readers.
Yaro Starak, John Chow and many people have been doing this. and seems it works pretty well. Are you complaining that this example I give you here is not to increase feed readers counter? But to promote their ebooks? On this example, you’re right, John and Yaro Starak doing this not to increase their feed reader count, but you can be creative with this technique to promote your own feed reader can’t you?
6. Run a Subscribe To Win contest.
Like what WTB is doing right now, you can run a contest and give prize for people who subscribed to your feed. By doing this, people will get attracted to subscribe.
JohnChow and Shoemoney feed competition was probably the biggest contest ever about feed subscription. John pull more then 4,000 feed readers in a month, while Shoe get more then 7,000. Unfortunately, this kind of subscribers will only subscribe for the price only. Once the contest is over, they are just stop reading on your feed. Look at Shoemoney Feed Chicklet, now he has “only” about 13k feed readers, while he had about more then 21k when the contest was still running.
7. And the last, Provide an email subscription above your post.
I do this on my blog, and look at my feedburner chicklet now, it has about 500 readers there, while it was just about 241 readers a month ago.
Of course all of this trick won’t work if you have nothing useful to offer to your readers. You should push your self to create more valuable contents so your readers will keep subscribing to your feed, even if you don’t apply any of this tricks at all.
So what about you? Do you have your own trick that I haven’t listed here? Share it with us on the comment form below.
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Another very useful post for all the bloggers out there especially the new ones like me. Thanks you Jack!
By the way Jack, I got a new domain.
there you go!
congrats dude, you won’t be sorry for it!
congratulation!
and btw. The http://incomeforeveryone.com is wrong. It is http://incomeforeveryone.info
I made a typo error. Sorry Jack.
oh? and i have just noticed it.
why did you make it on .info? why not .com or at least .net? aren’t they available?
because I only had $3.25 in my paypal account and the domain only costs $2.99. It was my only option Jack. Wish I had more money.
oh you haven’t point it to blogger?
or you have plan to use wordpress?
I have already pointed it out. I want to use wordpress but I can’t. I do not have enough money to pay for the monthly hosting fee. If I get paid with my get paid to click sites that is one of my 1st projects. I really am planning to convert my blog to something else like source of blogging tips and other affiliate programs but I need to start on something. Get paid to click sites is the only way that I could find so I just have to do this before proceeding to my real passion.
That’s what i called creative
Good Tricks
Hey I am your 500 subscriber. You offer good info so thats why I subscribed. I think of using one of your templates
You might think about seeing the free ebook how to get 1,124 subscribers at http://ebookdeal.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-to-get-1124-subscribers-in-one-week.html Cheers, Mark
Hi Mark,
may i know how many subscriber you have currently?
and why the download link is pointing to an exe file? where did you get the file? did you create it by your self? if you didn’t, how could i know that it doesn’t contain any viruses, malware or something?
thanks
jack
First I want to thank you for commenting at my blog
The download link is pointing to an exe file because the ebook is created in exe. You know ebooks can be created in pdf or exe file and the one is an exe. It doesn’t contains viruses because I readied it and scanned too with a anti virus 
. You asked how many subscribers I have too 
Right now I have about 21 or more (my blog is brand new) but my goal is not to reach 1k or to make money 
I blog about fun and this is my first blog 
BTW I am glad to meet some good bloggers like you, Midwest, Carl Ocab and talk to you - You really help me 
Ok you now think I am boarding… bla, bla, bla… I need to ask you something about your template 
Moneymakerboy.com is using your template and it has created pages (about, advertise, rss…) and I need to know how can I do this. I want to use three column apple for my new blog and I need help creating those pages. I asked Midwest and he told me that he doesn’t know html and that I should ask someone how does 
I want my template to have those pages as the picture under futured template. I believe that you can help me (You have experience creating those templates) and I would like some answer… Maybe you can create a post about how to add pages in blogger or send me an email at mar4e@yahoo.com Expecting answer from you soon 
Cheers.
KidBlogger
about your ebook,
yes, i use to see an ebook as a pdf. that is more trustable for me, it would be cool if you could make it to pdf, i’m sure you will have more people download your ebooks, if you made it as pdf. imho
about pages on moneymakerboy.com, actually, if you have installed the template, you will be automatically able to create those pages, since all you need to do is just point the link to your contact-us post, or about us post, or etc.
thanks
i love tip #1(using welcome text)
this really increase feedburner readers. i saw many blog applied this tip.
but, i dont apply yet this on my balootisme blog. because i dont really post my own idea. some of it just reprint articles pack.
that’s very helpful
I agree with you, Jack about the contest. Yes, this is what I’m doing now to win your $50 template. Now I’m reading every posts of yours an leave meaningful comments. Not just spam like, Great post, Jack, or Best tips kind of comments.
Now everyone will subscribe to your feed to win any future contest, lol! You’re wonderful, Jack. Brilliant!
You forgot to say, please.
new feed reader tips:
http://www.bloggers-help.blogspot.com
thanks
Excellent! I’ve been trying to piece together this kind of information & ideas. I’m going now to start implementing!
-Thom
Hi Jack,
How do I customize the feedburner email subscription for like the one you are using?
Hi Npbjl
just go to your feedburner accunt, and get the subscription code.
there you will be able to modify it since the code is a simple html code. it’s so modifiable.
thanks
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Jack, how do you put up the ’subscribe via email’ thing at the top of each post?
1. login to your feedburner account
2. get the html code
3. put it on top of your post (you can put it on a widget, or directly inside the html code)
4. save it and done
thanks
can anybody help me to create a custom made feed just like shown in
1. Use a welcome text, and put it on top inside of your post content.