Get Your Visitors to Subscribe to Your RSS Feed via Email
I bumped into Randy from KBCafe yesterday and we chatted a little about how I can improve my blog. He took a brief look at this place and immediately suggested that I let my visitors subscribe to my RSS feed via email. He said to make it easy for people, the more ways you have and the easier they are for your visitors to read your posts the better your chances are in getting that valuable return traffic.
Of course I didn’t have time to look into this RSS via Email technology so he suggested his R|mail snipplet, which I found very easy to use and very helpful and intuitive. The result is a subscription box on my sidebar (in action) where you can put your email and subscribe to my RSS feed. You’ll get a confirmation email with a link you have to click to make sure you want to opt in to my feeds by email. Then you’ll get an email everytime I blog a new post here. It’s that simple. There’s also an option to unsubscribe should you feel that you don’t need to read me in your mailbox.
So if you too are a blogger wondering why people don’t come back, plug R|mail today and see to it that people are reading you even when they don’t have time to visit your blog.
August 31st, 2005 at 3:15pm
Ya, you have 3 R|mail subscribers already. That’s a 150% increase in one day.
September 1st, 2005 at 5:15am
Hi Dude,
Thanks for the suggest.
Molly
September 1st, 2005 at 6:14am
Randy » One of those is me, hehe…
Phillip » No problem man, I hope it helps you too!
September 1st, 2005 at 6:22am
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September 1st, 2005 at 10:47am
bloglet also does this, though never used it. I love the subscribe to comments plugin for wordpress. I’m trying to think up a better way of tracking comments on blogs at the moment that will allow better blogosphere conversation. There’s a post on my blog about it but I have more up my sleeve still to think through.
There needs to be a standard developed for subscriptions when it comes to blog feeds and reader services.
I’ve just added Skippy Subscribe to my blog… needs work to add a subscribe to email field like yours though.
will hack later.
September 2nd, 2005 at 4:21am
Not bad, ur upto 7 (250% increase) in just two days. I suggest putting an RSS chicklet near the top too. You have to make it easy for people to sub.
June 28th, 2006 at 3:00pm
Hi guys,
I’m just starting in the blog “world”, and i found the subscription by email a very good tip for my blog. However, and dispite everything went well in putting the rmail html code in the blog, and having some people already subscribing, they aren´t receiving any email when i post.
Could you please help me!
Best regards,
June 28th, 2006 at 3:04pm
Renato, it’s been a while since I posted that and I don’t necessarily endorse R|mail anymore. I’d say give FeedBurner a try, they have a better RSS to email system.
June 28th, 2006 at 3:40pm
Thanks!