Thursday, December 2, 2010

Tips to Get the Most Out of Your RSS Subscribers at Your Blog

This first is not normally an issue, but it can easily be done, and what we're referring to is ensuring that your site remains constant when it comes to theme, colors, layout, and design, etc. You'll have to keep things pretty stable on your end so it doesn't negatively impact anything like RSS subscriptions, etc. If you ever decide to optimize your site, or do split testing to that end, then you may want to give your readers a heads-up about it. There's a lot of wisdom and practical value with maintaining a consistent look about your site. The bottom line with this is obviously it's your site, and you can do what you want; just be sure to bear this point in mind before you make radical changes, etc. Secondly, the best way to get people to remain subscribers is to provide true value without distracting them. For instance, if you use too many hyperlinks in your posts, people will divert quickly in another direction. You want their whole focus on whatever content you provide, so that it benefits them the most. You don't want to provide a trap door out of there every two seconds. Your posts are supposed to be valuable in themselves where the subscribers learn something new without leaving. Readers are always searching for those webpages that offer the entire bulk of the information they seek, as it's annoying to have to go searching for more. If you do include links, put them at the end of your post where people can find out where to go when they're done reading. In short, your posts should be a one stop destination for your subscribers.

You should never commit the mistake of including CPC ads, like Adsense, directly in the posts themselves. This will make it so that people aren't able to read your information very well, and that will usually make them stop. Though on a regular website like mine that gives tax accounting information it is more accepted to have advertisers who pay for the overhead of the website.


That's why you can't just put your banners anywhere. There are lots of bloggers who think that they will get lots of clinks by slapping banner ads right in the middle of their posts. Their readers are just going to jump ship, and that's what they don't realize. You must ensure that your goals are kept apart, as making money and keeping your subscribers happy should be two separate undertakings. But if you were to put CPC ads on the outsides of your posts, you'll be able to accomplish both goals easily. All in all, from the above article it gets clear that RSS is here to stay but if you want your subscribers to stay then you will have to keep the above tips in mind and make sure they are satisfied. If you use your RSS the right way, you will get tons more traffic and prospects to your blog than ever before.
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