How to Increase the number of RSS subscribers overnight
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No.This is not one of those cliche articles. And I’m not talking about getting subscribers by writing great content, or getting more links etc.. C’mon who doesn’t know those points? We are looking for something new. Right?
I’m talking about that one trick that will increase your subscriber list atleast by 10% over night. Guaranteed.
So you have an RSS feed set for your blog already right? How do you manage it? Feedburner? Great!
If you log in to your feed burner account here, you’ll find a list of email subscribers by clicking on the “See more about your subscribers” link. These are the number of people who are subscribed for your daily updates on email. I don’t know about you but for me they constitute 40% of my total subscription. Rest of the subscribers use an RSS reader/browser to read my feeds.
Today we’ll work on the number of email subscribers. In the dashboard(feedburner), take the email subscribers details(Manage email addresses link). It will show you the email addresses that are subscribed to your updates. Also just next to the email, it also lists is an email address is verified or not. See screenshot for reference.
Now, you can export this email list in CSV format(see link on the same page.)and download it to your computer. Open the downloaded file in Excel and sort the addresses based on whether they are verified or not. ( If you just have a couple of emails. you can do it manually ). Now select the unverified emails. These are the emails that have subscribed to your feed but unfortunately missed the verification part of the process.
Now, select your favorite Email application, like Gmail or Outlook and draft a mail for these unverified email subscribers. Make the email sound attractive and personal – so that it won’t be counted as spam when they reach the targets inbox.
Write a beautiful email that prompts the reader to do the verification part. You can request them to search for the verification mail, by giving your email id from which the email would have been sent. This is the same email that’s given to feedburner in it’s settings.
Also, gently remind them that this(verification part) might have been missed, and they still have a chance to subscribe. Also it may be a good idea to let them know of any recent improvements in the blog.
I found this trick very effective and was able to increase my subscription count overnight. The best part is that most subscribers immediately accepted my reminder email, and apologized for not verifying the subscription. So how’s that idea? Go ahead - Increase your subscribers count overnight!
Thanks For this Post.
This will really help me to increase the nos of subs
I have already tried it before!
Thanks – good tip. I just set up my email subscription button and have already seen a couple of these. I’ll make a habit of following up on them right from the start.
Good tip. I would have never thought to do this otherwise.
I didn’t know this feature even existed, so thanks. It appears only 5% of my subscribers do so via e-mail and all of them are active. But I may need this tip in future.
Am glad that you liked it. Well’ it isn’t any so called “tip” , may be a reminder?
Hey, I have also found out that if you click titles, the feed burner automatically sort the subscriber list before you can download it in a spread sheet.
Great blog, very useful info. However when I opened the file in excel it didn’t show me any email addresses, anyways I’ll try again.
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Sana there must have been an error. It works fine. You should download the file compatible for excel, i hope you have done that right.
Great info. I didn’t even know about this. When I checked mine, I only have 3 unverified so I left it alone.
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Thats a nifty thought. I already use my email subscriber list for insider info. I didn’t think to ask those who signed up but hadn’t confirmed to do so. Luckily I haven’t deleted them.
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Nice tip. I knew this but wasnt able to figure how to filter….I was dumb…I can use excel
Thanks for this article, its simple but very useful.
nice article:)this really helps.thanks a lot.i just subscribe.thanks again
Ronald
Great idea, I like this method.
Feedburner is an awesome tool. The e-mail subscription facility is wonderful. Thanks for the post. A Stumble for your efforts
u tell me a great tip. Keep it up.
thx
This is a pretty cool idea. I will try it out immedeately and I’m sure it’ll work.
However, I would propose also sending the Feedburner email subscription link within the email. It will be much easier for the user to just click that and get another validation mail (which is possible) than look for the original mail… and maybe not find it.
Useful tips dude…
ill implement it..
i already tried it before and also work for me but minimal
thanks for the info. i am newbie in seo, it will very helpful to me
Great tips. But how can we have a better RSS feed that people would want to subscribe ?
That’s a really good tip. I’ve been trying to get my subscribers up lately to no avail. Hopefully that will work.