Blogging Idol 2 Increase RSS readership

Blogging Idol 2

Increasing your RSS numbers

These are several of the strategies I have been using over the past couple of weeks to increase my blogs readership for the blogging idol competition.

Strategies for increasing RSS readership

1. Ensuring that my RSS feed buttons are displayed correctly that they are working and that I offer both the option of subscribing via an RSS feed and via e-mail.
2. Submitting my RSS feed to RSS directories however I am not convinced this had any effect at all on the amount of subscribers I have.
3. Writing an article informing my readers that I had entered this competition and explaining what the competition is about.
4. Focusing more on social media marketing although many argue its highly untargeted I beg to differ considering the average amount of page views I receive from Stumbleupon is 3.59.
5. Not only have I been focusing on social media marketing but also on trying to get my articles to hit Sphinns front page something I was able to succeed with one of my latest articles.
6. Posting more frequently since my redesign I have been a lot more motivated to post as I can now do it with ease through wordpress. I am continuing to posting one post per day which in a month’s time I should be increasing to 9 posts per week.
7. Asking friends that I have made through social media marketing and other places to subscribe to my RSS feed. Not pressuring them instead just asking them if they liked the content why not subscribe.
8. I have also been very keen to start some more article series which involve posting a chapter each week. These help with gaining subscribers and also if you have trouble thinking of ideas for articles then it’s a great way of easing this pressure.

These are the main strategies I have been using to increase my subscriber count and although it seems to have had a positive effect on the amount of subscribers I have it is nothing compared to some of the competing blogs. However many factors should be considered when entering a competition which is based largely on increasing your readership. One of the most important being that your competition are not only in the field your in they can be in a totally different market with a larger target market and a larger potential for increasing readership. I won’t go in to this now instead I will write a whole article which will talk about the experiences I have had from entering blogging competitions.

As well as the strategies I have already put in place, I have several other strategies that I intend to use over the fourth coming weeks.

Strategies I intend to use to increase RSS readership

1. Blog commenting is something I used to do quite frequently however I have for some reason stopped commenting as much so this is something I want to increase again.
2. Guest posting is another form of marketing I have wanted to try out for a long time however I have never got round to it, instead I used all my good titles for my own blog. However I am going to try and test this out sometime before the end of the competition.
3. Extending the length of stay my visitors have on the blog. This is a goal which I am not only using to increase readership but also to increase page views. Before I changed my web design to this design and started using WordPress I was lucky enough to have a 2.7% bounce rate which I have talked about in a previous article. Without actually focusing on decreasing my bounce rate I was able to get that bounce rate and I suggested a couple of different strategies which may of affected this. It is now clear to me that the major factor which effected the bounce rate was that I linked every single article to every single page on my site. Now I am not intending to do this again as it was a poor linking structure to use considering I had over 100 internal links on each page but instead I am planning on adding some wordpress plug ins to promote the best articles and most recent articles on my blog. This will hopefully in turn increase the amount of page views as well as enticing people to subscribe to my blog.

Blog commenting is something I have talked about before and the benefits of using such a strategy can be a rapid increase in traffic and growth as well as having a positive effect on your SERPs.

Guest posting is another great traffic booster, there are certain strategies you can use to maximise traffic from guest posting as well as maximising your publicity such as using a certain pattern for posting your articles on other people’s blogs to ensure people hear about your blog more than once over a short period of time.

I never enter blogging contests to win and although some people may find this strange and a little bit stupid but its not about winning for me. Its about being motivated to increase growth on my blog whilst having fun and competing with others. Blogging Idol always increase my blogs growth and even if I don’t win I will be happy with the results.

Stay tuned to here more about the blogging idol competition and subscribe to my blog.

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