8 Tips On How To Increase Subscribers For Your Blog

Everyone will tell you, “Write great content and your subscriber base is bound to grow”, but the fact is that, it takes far more than just writing great content. Of course, great content is bound to take your places. But if you want to escalate the journey and make the most of the things today, then it’s time to put in a little effort towards your subscriber list. Here are tips that should work in your favors: 1. Ask Your Readers To Subscribe You may be skeptical about this, but there really isn’t any harm in asking people to subscribe to your blog. A simple sentence like “If you liked the post, please subscribe” or something like “Enter your e-mail-id here so that we can keep in touch”. Such requests aren’t offensive and sometimes, work the best! Nevertheless, there’s a very thin line between what’s acceptable and what is not. So, try not to be too pushy or aggressive; also limit your “do subscribe!” requests to just about a few. Concentrate more on sending out good content along with subtle reminders. 2. Make Subscription Easy Everyone says this time and again and yet there are so many bloggers who don’t understand the importance of making the subscription processes easy. The user prefers to simply sign-up without much complications. So, make it simple and easy. Something like entering their e-mail ids only? That can be a great way to increase subscriptions. 3. Offer Something MORE You could perhaps write a small e-book or compile ideas and tips. Offer this out in an e-book format. You can encourage subscriptions by letting people know that subscribers are e-titled to the free e-books. Besides e-books, there are various other freebies that you could offer. If you have things on sale, on your site, you could offer discounts to subscribers; you could create coupons, networks or forums and keep people connected; hooked with the subscription. 4. Have A Posting Schedule Reports show that people expect to read your works. In such a case, it’s a good idea to prepare in advance and be committed to your blog. Have a schedule. Decide and stick to it. So along with good content, you also need to give them regular content. Regular posts tend to build an audience. 5. Connect With Other Blogs And Form Networks As a blogger, it’s good to be updated in your niche. Find other blogs that talk on similar subjects and stay connected with them. Interact and participate in real discussion. Quite often, this is used as a back backlinking strategy where people post on other blogs and comment on posts to build links back to their own blogs. However, doing this in a genuine and organic way can really help in building readership and trust.

6. Make RSS Available RSS isn’t all that popular but it’s an effective way to increase subscription because it helps to pass on your content rather easily. The RSS feed makes it easy to read and easy to increase subscribers and so, it’s a good option to make RSS Feed available on your blog. Another very important factor here is WHERE you place the RSS and Subscription tabs. Take our discussion from points 2 and 6 further – always note to keep these tabs ABOVE the fold so that there is more chance of the user clicking and subscribing. 7. Link To Your Blog – Really, do it! This may sound loud to some and may sound easy to others; but in either case, this is one of the most effective ways to reach your blog out to people. Using your blog link in your e-mail signature, on your business cards as well as your twitter and facebook profiles can make a big difference to increasing the traffic and consequently, subscriptions on your blog. 8. Add a call to action button – It really works ! Call to action works amazingly especially at the end of post or at sidebar.You can also add a pop-up for increasing subscribers if you don’t care about difficulties faced by your blog visitors.Here is an example of call to action button you can put above your feedburner subscription form. However, you must note, that the more you write, the more you reach out. People have diverse tastes. A blog post that you personally love may not be very popular with people, while one which takes less effort might just get viral! The key is to keep on catering to the demands of your niche. Also, the more traffic you get to your website, the more chances you have of increasing your subscriber base. So, your motive should be to increase traffic and reach; reach out to as many corners of the web that you can. So go ahead, try it! This is a guest post written by Divya Rawat.She is a popular blogger and has many years of experience in the field of content writing, copy writing, content and web development .If you also wish to submit guest post,join us here.