Five Tips on How To Increase Traffic

1.Don’t refer to this as “Increasing Your FeedBurner RSS Subscription numbers. These are real people, with real feeling, thoughts and emotions. They are not to be associated with numbers. If I want to be associated with a number, I’ll go sit in the waiting room of a doctor’s office.


2.Consider the fact that many of the people visiting your site for the first time are not really bloggers. They are people who landed on a post page within your blog who are simply searching for information. The information they seek happens to be written on your blog. Invite these people to visit often and explain to them how the best way to do that is. Provide a written paragraph at the bottom of your pages briefly explaining about your RSS feed and how it can benefit the users who stumbled on one of your posts from a search engine.


3.Stay on topic. People typically read your blog because they are interested in your expertise in the topic you blog about. They too share a common interest and will tend to link to you numerous times from their own blog. For the people that link to you on many occasions, you should contact them and thank them and also ask if they wouldn’t mind mentioning about your RSS feed next time they plan on writing about you.


4.Word of Mouth Marketing: Very important! I am sure that most of us have a decent sized email address list. However, within that list, there may only be a handful of people that we’re really close to. That is absolutely perfect for tip #4, which again is, Word of Mouth Marketing is Powerful. Take 10 people, your most closest email buddies and send them an individual email and ask them if they wouldn’t mind taking a moment to send an email to a few of their closets friends explaining about your blog. For example, If I received an email from David Cooley, Mark Sierra, Christine Senter or Joel Comm telling me about a personal favorite blog that they like to read, I would definitely check it out and I am very sure that I would subscribe to it. Why? Because a close friend sent me an email with a recommendation. I truth my friend’s judgment. Word of mouth marketing is very powerful. Send an email to ten trusted and well known friends and ask them to help spread the word about you.


5.How has monetizing been working for you? Not too good… that’s ok! Ask yourself if you would be more successful winning clicks into your RSS subscription form or more clicks into Google Adsense. If you think that you would get more clicks into your RSS subscription form compared to monetizing campaign clicks, then lose the monetization and self promote your RSS feed instead.


After reading this post, what else can you think of? What I have written is a great start, but I am sure there are tons of more tips. What can you think of? It doesn’t matter how big or small or even how stupid it might seem. A tip is a tip and I would love for you to share yours. Drop me a comment and help me expand on this topic. How else can a blogger increase their Feedburner Subscribers?

Source: garryconn