Comments on: Why Promote an RSS Feed if it Keeps People from Visiting Your Blog?

By: ugg boots

ugg boots — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:21:29 +0000

I’m also believing that once a certain reader subscribed, it may already mean that he really wants to follow your content, so it’s a good thing already.
It is an interesting traffic technique which I had not found before.

By: wind power

wind power — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:23:40 +0000

Sounds to me like you for sure know what you are talking about.

By: jeux d'action

jeux d'action — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:20:58 +0000

Awesome info!! I appreciate the time you took to put all of this together. Thanks again. It really helps me in doing the blogs..

By: jeux psp

jeux psp — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:31:05 +0000

thanks for your info i hate the ‘content is king’ line everytone throws around because you can write the most amazing articles in the world if you dont get anyone to see them your not going to get traffic…

By: Wrought Iron Furniture

Wrought Iron Furniture — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:33:00 +0000

RSS feeds are good for your blog and will help it grow.

By: Article Directory

Article Directory — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:03:06 +0000

As said before promoting your RSS feed is highly important for your blog or whatever kind of site you have! I have readers all over the world that read my blogs and article directories throught RSS reader and if somebody that has a site and doesn’t promote their RSS feed is missing a part of the traffic!

By: krissy knox

krissy knox — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:40:04 +0000

Darren, I subscribe to you via RSS. I was one of those who used to read PROBLOGGER posts in my inbox, and who initially didn’t comment. I guess I didn’t think I had the time. But by your brilliant posts, you drew me in. Now I frequent your blog daily, commenting as often as I can. So it does work!

krissy knox :)
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By: Dean Saliba

Dean Saliba — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:59:55 +0000

Promoting your RSS feed is very important. I don’t know about other people but I have 100s of people who have told me they read my RSS feed but they never visit my blogs.

By: SURVEYS FOR MONEY

SURVEYS FOR MONEY — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:57:12 +0000

Great points you made in that previous post. The first and last points I find very important. Having one subscriber who never visits your blog is worth much more than a visitor who never comes back to your blog. With that one subscriber, your still keeping a reader. I agree that if you want subscribers to be regular visitors you should offer them things like they couldn’t get just from your feed. Such as asking questions or running polls like you said.

By: teratips

teratips — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:58:15 +0000

that is also my question?
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By: Wesley Craig Green

Wesley Craig Green — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:13:34 +0000

As others have already pointed out, RSS serves many functions for a blog. To make RSS subscribers come to your blog, you have to hook them with your post’s title and the first couple of paragraphs. Mind you, this is dependent on how you have your RSS feed setup to be displayed (X number of words versus the full blog post). If people are not enticed enough to click the RSS link to your blog’s post, then you are missing out on increasing your blog’s page views as well monetization possibilities.

Wesley Craig Green
The Geek Entrepreneur

By: fas

fas — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:59:01 +0000

David, its very rate that regular readers click on ads but more the readers more chances of having direct ad sales.

By: David Stillwagon

David Stillwagon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:41:16 +0000

But do your regular readers click on ads? That’s the question that I have.

By: fas

fas — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:40:51 +0000

RSS = Loyal Reader = Not forget you and just incase they do, you reach their inbox with a update. RSS = Very important, period.

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:40:14 +0000

I guess I am still too new to this… I thought that an RSS just searched my site for a new post and forwarded that post to a reader… Is there a way to customize what gets sent out to the reader?

By: BloggerDaily

BloggerDaily — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:19:52 +0000

I just wanna share the information with the readers. And as usual, I got comments. It’s enough for me =)

By: PraShawn

PraShawn — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:35:45 +0000

I think having lots of rss subscribers is great you still can monetize the rss page with Adsense to make money from it. I think having rss subscribers list you still can make them come to your blog by offering a product or a service in your blog post. Having a rss feed of products will make them come to your blog. Thanks for sharing.

By: Technology Slice

Technology Slice — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:06:27 +0000

If they’re reading your content what’s the difference if they read it on your blog or RSS feed?

By: S.K SHARMA

S.K SHARMA — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:28:00 +0000

Oh great !
You mean brand building? Good.
I’ll do it for my blog.

By: Mario Pesce

Mario Pesce — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:39:06 +0000

Hi,

I found your approach pretty interesting.

I have not tried yet to use an RSS feed in my blogs, but I think to add it.

It is an interesting traffic technique which I had not found before.

A general question is how do measure your blog traffic?

Can you suggest some ways to add counters to a blog. I currently use blogspot.

Regards

Mario Pesce