After having a quick look at Roger Johansson’s 456 Berea Street, I felt slightly despondent once my eyes gazed over towards the number of RSS subscribers to his site.  Wouldn’t it be nice having 26,000 RSS readers?  I presume that the number of subscribers has in fact decreased slightly because Roger has been on “parental leave and vacation” for nearly 2 months.

Well, Roger’s success got me wondering how I could increase the number of RSS subscribers to my blog.  Short of being dugg, there are not many ways of attaining over 5,000 visitors in a relatively short amount of time.

A large number of RSS subscribers is usually attributed to interesting content which has been published regularly over a lengthy period of time.

Boost your subscribers

But wait!  There are ways to jump-start your feed’s activity.  Have you ever thought about submitting your RSS feed to different RSS readers and directories?

Instead of feeling dispondent, I decided to do something about it.  I found a great guide on rss-specifications.com.  The guide contains numerous links to RSS directories, catalogs, and readers.  After spending some time searching the web and submitting my RSS feed, I sat back and watched what happened.

It paid off.  BlogaPro’s reach has almost doubled over night as is depicted in the graph above.  While much of the activity is attributed to bots, I did notice that three times as many human visitors clicked on items within my feed compared with previous days.

Any of you have any other tips to share on how you have increased the number of RSS subscribers to your site?

Last but not least

If you haven’t already, don’t forget to subscribe to my RSS feed.