If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
If your a regular reader of Marc Eilbeck .com you will notice I have made some slight changes to the blog and implemented an RSS subscribe button and email field. As some of you know this is my first blog I have done so I wasn’t too sure exactly how to do this. So I’m guessing there will be a few more people like me out there that aren’t too sure either.
First thing to do is make sure your feed is running through feedburner as they have lots of tools for promoting your rss feed.
To get the RSS logo and email box on your side bar…
find an rss logo you want to use (google images)
go to your wordpress admin > presentation > widgets > put a text widget were you want the rss logo and email subscription to go > click the configure icon on the widget > under ‘title’ put Subscribe
in the main text area put this code
<a href=”your feed URL” title=”Subscribe to my feed” rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml”><img src=”your RSS button URL” alt=”rss” style=”border:0″/></a><a href=”your feed URL” title=”Subscribe to my feed” rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml”>Subscribe as a Reader</a>
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Now go to your feedburner account and click the publicize tab and on the left then click email subscriptions then activate the service copy and paste the code they give you after the <br> tag in the text widget.
Thats it! People will now be able to join your feed easily.
Thats not all this post is about as the post title says How to Increase RSS Readers / Subscribers. I have come across a great plugin called ‘What Would Seth Godin Do’ this shows a none intrusive message at the top of the first post on your blog. By default, new visitors to your blog will see a small box above each post containing the words “If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!” After 3 visits the message disappears. You can customize this message, its lifespan, and its location.
If your new here you will see it at the top of this post
you can get this plugin here
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