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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 4:12 pm

How to get more followers of your blog

Every company knows that returning customers are the best. They know you and trust you, they buy more you, and recommends to others.

The same principle applies even more to online marketing. That's why you should get out of their way to make your visitors subscribe to your blog.

Get subscribers and follow up

There are several ways for your readers to follow. The most popular are RSS, email, Twitter and Facebook. I recommend adding these to your blog.

Most of these subscription methods allow you to track the number of his followers. An exception notable is the RSS. In a standard installation of WordPress, for example, there is no way of knowing how many RSS subscribers you have.

A good solution to this FeedBurner problem is the service currently provided by Google. Shows the total number of subscribers, as well as some useful details about them:

item views

click link item

Timeline subscribers

It allows you to analyze the performance of your diet and try to adjust for best results.

Viewing statistics followers

Some networks social and WordPress widgets allow you to show your followers. What you need to do?

I think the answer is yes, with little warning. Only subscribers to display when they are reasonably high. For most people, the most important threshold is about 1,000 subscribers. Once you get that number, you get the following benefits displayinfg that:

social proof that your blog is interesting

attract guest authors

attract advertisers

Maximise fee

My suggestion principal is to increase the visibility of your subscription buttons. Ensure they are easy to find and click on the first screen of the page, and possibly in some place in the body of the message, too.

Try different widgets to attract subscribers. They come in all colors, shapes and sizes. Some may work best for your audience and page layout than others.

Split test your subscription forms email if possible. Buenos mail services electronic tools and instructions provided for that purpose. Unfortunately, RSS, Facebook and Twitter can not be an option.

So what I propose is to track your subscription rate for a period of time with a flash and then another. Trying to exclude other variables. Run each case for a full week, preferably at the time when there is nothing special holidays or special promotions.

WordPress Widgets and Plugins for subscription and the statistics show

There are dozens of plugins to attract subscribers and readers display the numbers. Here are some of them that I realized and found useful:
1. Feedburner plugin of FeedSmith to Google
2. Feedburner Email - blog updates via email
3. Feedburner subscriber count
4. WP Greet Box plugin
5. Share and Follow plug-in
6. Facebook as the box
7. Twitter plugin amateur
8. Flash counter Twitter
9. Twitter Button
10. TwitMeme follow flash

By careful placement and testing of these widgets on your blog, you can increase your number of daily readers, attract more advertisers and guest authors.

About the Author

Val Danylchuk is the author of Web Tracking Guide - an easy, step-by-step tutorial for tracking and maximizing your online profits. Visit Val's Web Tracking Blog for more about follower tracking.

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