Increasing Subscribers: Part 1
April 8, 2007 | Comments (5) | Filed under: Traffic
When I put together last months statistics summary, the area I felt we were lacking in the most had to be subscribers. My goal for this month is to increase subscribers by implementing some changes to the site. The first of these changes is to make it a little more accessible for a user to subscribe to our feed by adding a static feed listing at the bottom of our posts.
If you look at the bottom of this post, you can see the changes already in effect. At the bottom of each post is one sentance encouraging users to subscribe to our feed. In our case, the text is the following:
If you’ve found this post interesting, make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed. Bookmark Bliss is updated daily, and subscribing is your best chance to stay on top of all our updates.
Making this change was really easy if you’re using WordPress. Simply open up the single.php for your template, and modify your template code to put the sentance wherever you think it will fit best.
Now, anyone who happens across this blog will have more opportunities to see and subscribe to our feeds. In a few weeks, I’ll check our statistics and see just how big of an improvement this has made. I think it will make a big improvement.
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sounds like an interesting idea.. i’d like to implement something like this as well.. let me know how this goes for you
good luck with it!!
Worked for me! Stumbled across your blog, saw the message, signed up.
One thing you do that is great is using feedburner. I like that when you click on that you have the “add to my yahoo” etc. links rather than me having to go to my reader and manually add that. One think I think might be beneficial for you would be to add those links and buttons to your site. It would save a click and perhaps increase impulse subscribers.
you must have got lots of Rss readers by now.. time to show feedburner chicklet …. ?