Blogging Tips – Make It Easy To Become A Subscriber
As a blogger one of the things you strive to do is reach an audience and build a consistant fan base. This can only be done if you make the tools to subscribe to your blog as easy to find and use as possible. Make sure your blog has a subscribe via RSS and a subscribe via email button or link at the very top of either your blog in general or at the top of every post near the title of the post. You need to make it stand out so that people who want to subscribe can easily do so with a single click.
Some people have email fields where you can just type an email and hit submit to subscribe, this is also an excellent way to make it as easy as possible for a person to subscribe. I myself had an RSS feed at the top of my blog, but lacked a subscribe via email on my homepage. I had it at the bottom of individual articles but when somebody told me that they couldn’t find one, I decided to make it stand out more at the top of my site.
Remember it is great to have random people visit your blog via Google searches, but once they arrive on your blog not only does your content need to give them a reason to keep coming back, but you need to make the tools to become a reader accessible to your readers as well. Now, what I wish is that there was a wordpress plug-in to allow people to subscribe to specific categories of blog posts, such as if someone only wanted blogging articles, but not entertainment articles they can just get the articles they are looking for. I have seen such services on News sites, but haven’t seen any for WordPress blogs.
-Dragon Blogger
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