Increasing the number of RSS feed readers of your blog is an important part of building a larger reader base. More RSS readers means more chances of your content being noticed, read, more links, more comments, returning visitors and many more.
If you’re on WordPress, the following plugins may help in building RSS subscribers:
1. What would Seth Godin do
What would Seth Godin do plugin displays a reminder at the beginning of the first post asking readers to subscribe to your blog’s feed. It works based on session cookies, and normally displays the following message 3 times to new visitors:
The message can be customized, and you can set it to be displayed for as many number of times as you wish.
Download the What would Seth Godin do Plugin to remind visitors to subscribe.
2. Subscribe Me
The Subscribe Me WordPress plugin lets you display chicklets on your blog, so that visitors can subscribe to the feed using their favourite RSS reader. You can customize the chicklets that get displayed using the Plugin’s options page.
Download Subscribe Me Plugin to make it easy for readers to subscribe to your blog’s RSS feed.
3. Subscribe Remind
This WordPress plugin will place a reminder under each post, requesting your readers to subscribe.
Note that it’ll be displayed permanently, irrespective of new/returning visitors - because it is not based on cookies.
Download Subscribe Remind Plugin to increase RSS Subscribers
Try them, and they’ll work for sure. Do you know of any such plugins? What steps did you take as a blogger to raise the count of RSS readers? Tip us in the comments.