Comments on: How to Keep Your Subscribers Forever

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:11:44 +0000

Keeping your readership is not easy. I believe the key to success is to be somewhat consistent in your writings, because return readers are back to receive ‘another dose’ of your great ideas, whatever they may be. Bloggers cannot control the mindset of any reader, so they must also be dedicated to the area they are writing about. There is nothing greater than original content that is delivered with both professionalism and sincerity. Regards, Keith Johnson, M.S. Education

By: Mike King

Mike King — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:18:30 +0000

One thing that annoys me and leads me to unsubscribe from a blog is really short useless news items on a blog. I want content, not little titbits and news posts. An example is some bit about a website redesign or other site being updated, etc. I’ve almost left this subscription from this a few times I’ll admit.

So my question about this is, I have several categories I post to on my blog and users can subscribe to all posts or individual categories to help them filter out the stuff they don’t care to read. I’m not sure yet if this is useful (or if I should just tune my blog on a narrower subject which I don’t yet want to do), any comments on this from the group?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:41:34 +0000

This is a great post. We all know that the more subscribers we have the more traffic we can get and keeping subscribers forever would be a great help.

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:25:21 +0000

Cheers for the info. Mine is only 6 at the moment lol so I’m focusing on more subscribers at this stage

By: Affleap

Affleap — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:01:46 +0000

Interesting post, I know that everyone is aiming of how one can keep his subscribers intact but don’t know how. Great article.

By: Hafiz

Hafiz — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:39:43 +0000

Great points thanks! I’m going to try and put some of those in effect on my blog:

http://how-to-earn-cash-make-money-online.blogspot.com/

Keep up the GREAT work!

By: Mert Erkal

Mert Erkal — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:37:23 +0000

Nice post Skellie ! Adding value is the key for your reader’s to stick to your blog. You may get their attention for a while, but this does not mean this will last forever. We should always be innovative and creative to keep them coming to our blogs. This is easier said than done…

By: Pedro Sousa

Pedro Sousa — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:14:48 +0000

Fantastic post!

Some eBooks charge a fortune for this kind of information.

Thanks!

By: 66tx

66tx — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:06:14 +0000

I like your point about breaking up your text with images. I’ve noticed you and DoshDosh each do this well.

By: Gisele B. from myBeautyMatch.com

Gisele B. from myBeautyMatch.com — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:35:06 +0000

Skellie,

This is an interesting post because it is something I’ve noticed.

I’ve set my feed to the summary in order to make them shorter, but it removes the pictures. Is there a way for me to include the picture, but keep the RSS feed content to about 400-500 words?

I did follow the advise of another marketer, and I did create a signature at the bottom of my RSS feed to let readers know that if they click on the link it will take them to the main post which contains photos, links and more info.

I also added a reminder for people to join our membership.

I would appreciate any advise you might be able to give on this, as I do believe that keeping your RSS feed subscribers growing is very important.

Gisele
http://www.mybeautymatch.com

By: Skellie

Skellie — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:10:41 +0000

@ Jeremiah: My suggestion would be, that if you’re going for a free theme, pick something unique. There are a lot of themes that get used on thousands of blogs and I think you should stay away from those. Your blog needs to be unique visually as well as in terms of content.

@ Mark Dykeman: That’s a really cool idea. That would let visitors know immediately what blog the post was from.

@ Everyone: Thanks for the kind comments! I can’t respond to all of them, but I do read them.

By: Daniel Anderson

Daniel Anderson — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:08:31 +0000

Great Post, I am new to the blogging scene and I firstly need to get subscribers. Images in post I think are a fantastic way to break up the post.

By: kristarella

kristarella — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:02:43 +0000

You are very right about not always knowing which blog you’re reading (if you’re reading all of “Today’s Articles”, for example). I actually thought I was reading a Skelliewag post until I came here to comment!

Great article, good things to remember and act upon. Big paragraphs is one of my weaknesses!

One things I find is helpful is when things are set up properly the post might have an author name associated with it. For Problogger my feed reader tells me whether it’s Darren Rouse or Skellie writing a post. My feeds have that as well, which leads me to believe it might be FeedBurner inserting that helpful little tidbit.

I also tend not to read posts from blogs that update several times a day. I find that I can’t keep up with all the posts Unless blogging is your career then people who update too much have not spent enough time researching and proof reading their posts.

Haha, I just flicked over to Darren’s article that you linked to and too many posts is first on the list! I’ll go read that post now.

By: Yosi alexia

Yosi alexia — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:20:32 +0000

Fantastic ….. posting.. Darren! I dream about that…

By: Mark Dykeman

Mark Dykeman — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:05:49 +0000

One thing that I used to do was to start each blog post with the same two words: Brain Broadcast. I thought that it would create a consistent look and feel that would help brand my blog.

Over time, I decided to start using unique titles for most posts except for two days/week, which are theme days. The rest of the time, each title is specific to the post it describes.

The sad thing is that I really have no idea if changing my title naming method has had an impact on my traffic or not. Personally, though, I’ve grown to like the idea of unique post titles.

By: Dan Cole

Dan Cole — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:47:23 +0000

wow… I tried to do a correction but the html didn’t work. So, “it seems to me that keeping the ones you have is just as important.” should be “it seems to me that keeping the ones you have are just as important.”

By: Dan Cole

Dan Cole — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:45:05 +0000

it seems to me that keeping the ones you have isare just as important.

By: Advice Network Writing contest

Advice Network Writing contest — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:12:24 +0000

Short paragraphs are SO IMPORTANT. My team is starting to judge the entries for the writing contest, and people who know how to format and present their information in digestible chunks are doing much better so far.

By: Cathy Moore

Cathy Moore — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:27:44 +0000

These are all good points. An additional one to consider is matching the frequency of your posts with your subscribers’ needs. Many of my subscribers signed up to receive posts in their email. Before I post, I pause to remind myself that I’m about to interrupt more than 100 people with an email, so it had better be worth it.

By: Pachecus

Pachecus — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:30:31 +0000

Very useful post.
I like this point ” Break up your text with images”

Thanks