RSS Email Subscription
So, how important is it to put a link to an RSS email subscription on your website? From the looks of my statistics, very important. That is, if you want to increase your RSS reader base. From the statistics on my Feedburner account, it shows that 33% of the people who are subscribed to my RSS, are subscribed from email. This is the largest percentage of any method of subscription, for my blog.
How do you get people to subscribe through email? Feedburner will give you the code to put a link on your website, like mine, that allows people to subscribe to your RSS through email. When you log into Feedburner and click your websites feed that is being burned, go to Publicize. On the side there is a link that says Email Subscription. When you click it, Feedburner will give you the code to put on your website.
Make sure to put it somewhere that people will see it. You might even want to try mentioning in a post that you’ve added this addition on to your site so that people will notice it. Who knows, your readers may have been waiting for this all along. Now that you’ve added it, you’ll receive a plethora of new readers.
December 31st, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Absolutely correct. Options are so important. You’d be surprised at how many times I’ve emailed site owners to ask about adding an email subscription service to their site. My desktop is absolutely jammed and I tend to have difficulties getting to my readers, so anymore I prefer getting my updates sent to me via email. I can then visit the site, read, and participate and although my email subscriptions aren’t quite to the 33% you cite as my RSS subscribers still are much higher, the email option nevertheless I believe is important….Cheers and Happy New Year!!
T
December 31st, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Yeah, my 33% is due to my low subscriber count.
Happy new years to you too!
December 31st, 2007 at 7:49 pm
I think it is really important to get one*mental note for myself, get this freakin thing done on my blog* today is the day of adding good habits and forgeting them all along, so I will think about this when I wake up later
happy new year
December 31st, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Haha, yeah. It helps to keep a notepad open of all the stuff you need to do. That’s what I do.
Happy new year to you too.
January 1st, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Wow, 33%!
Just in the last week or so I have added the e-mail option from Feedburner and I haven’t gotten one subscriber in e-mail. My count ranges so dramatically everyday too that I’m really not sure where I’m sitting with RSS subscribers.
Perhaps figuring that out is a good goal for this year. :o)
January 1st, 2008 at 2:20 pm
You should make it easier for people to find the link. I had to look for it when I went to your blog.