RSS feed is quite an important part of your blog. It helps you to update your prospects and readers about the valuable information which you give in your blog. Initially it is a bit tough to convince people to subscribe to your blog and make them come again to your blog, but once you start writing quality articles and making people aware about your blog it is not that difficult.

Here are few tips which will help you increase your RSS feed subscribers:

• Place:

  The most important aspect of RSS feed is that the RSS feed is that it should be located at a proper place in your blog, so that it can be noticed by all the visitors. You can use some phrase for subscription like: “Subscribe to RSS feed”. This phrase along with the link you can place either above or below the post which will make sure the person reading through your post can see the RSS feed, if he likes your writing style or topic he might subscribe to the blog immediately. RSS feed Icon should be placed at the top of right side and should be visible on all the pages of your blog. This helps to locate the feed easily.

• Attractive Icon:

  Your RSS feed icon should be big enough so that all visitors can locate it easily. You can select whatever color you want but usually traditional bright orange color is the one

  

  which attracts the eyes first. Bright color is easily visible. Many times visitor fail to locate small Icon which are of different color and thus blogger lose loyal visitors.

• RSS Feed for Categories:

  If you have different categories on your blog, use different feed for each and every category. All visitors have specific interest, so they might not be interested in all the categories on which you write, keeping that in mind; you should offer them to subscribe to individual category of their interest. This will help you also to increase RSS feed numbers.

• Email Subscription:

  Give your visitor an option of getting your articles through email. Many people don’t use RSS readers and still love to read mails, so it is better to give an option of Email Subscription to your visitors. You can promote RSS readers and finally it will increase your subscribers also. If you have few visitors who haven’t confirmed the subscription, then send them a gentle reminder mail about the confirmation of subscription. This will help you increasing the number of feed subscribers.

• Run Contests:

  Run contests on our blog (only for visitors who subscriber to your blog) and the number of RSS feed will surely increase. You can also participate in blog carnival, which will help you to get more visitors and thus more subscribers. Like this blog contest

• Content and Theme:

  This is most important point to remember. Your article must be killer and informative. Once you know how to write good articles, visitors will surely subscribe to your RSS feed. Be unique with your post. Add Graphics and pictures to make your post more clearly and understandable.  Your blog theme should be user-friendly so that user can navigate easily from one page to another.

• Use Widgets:

  There are many widgets available like MYBLOGLOG, Bumzee or BlogCatalog. These widgets help you to increase the number of subscriber as well as keep track of your visitors. I am using these widgets and I am very satisfied with these widgets. When widget message me about new visitor, I send my visitor (potential subscriber  ) a thank you message for visiting and ask them to Subscribe to my RSS Feed.

• Reply emails:

  If reader is sending you an email, try to reply as soon as possible .If you will ignore your readers, they will never come back to Subscribe to your Feed.

Hope these points will help you to get good numbers of RSS Feed Subscribers. Happy Blogging.

If I could, I would spend many hours each day working on my Twitter account. But, since I also have a life, I need to take care of other things too. How do you pull away from Twitter so as not to be distracted all day? I do not have to stop being working in Twitter, I just need to back off some so I can refresh and be more focused when I work on my Twitter account.  You do not have to completely break off from Twitter. Just shut it down for a short time and get some other work done.

• Closing Twitter Applications
  Close out your desktop clients, mobile applications or regular web applications like Twitter search. Several of these applications distract you by giving browser alerts, or Tweeter notifications. It is difficult to ignore these alerts. When you have the time to focus on your Twitter account, turn them back on. It is best to twitter when you have the time to concentrate and focus on what you are doing. Don’t worry about closing these down, they will still be available at the time of your choice.
• Redirect Your Email Alerts From Twitter
  Your e-mail box can quickly fill up even if you are using Twitter by itself, or a Twitter application such as Topify to forward messages to your inbox. Set up a folder for these personal and professional Twitter messages and you will be able to locate them quickly and respond if necessary. You will feel much more in control.In addition you will be more in control when you do your Twitter maintenance. All your Twitter emails will be sorted into the folders you set up, making it easier to locate and respond to the more important ones.
• For Direct Messages, Limit Use Of Mobile Twitter
  Turn off your Twitter applications such as Twitterberry or Twitdrod (mobile link) for an hour or so. Change your mobile Twitter settings to only receive direct messages on your cell phone. To send text messages requests into Twitter to receive the most recent updates for a particular user, for example, use your computer and not your cell phone.Some states do not allow cell phone use while driving. The text message alert on your cell phone is distracting and difficult to ignore. Limiting the use of Twitter for a short time throughout the day improves your time usage and allows you to compartmentalize your time so you can be an effective blogger.
• Updates Can Be Auto Posted
  To appear as an active Twitter, use options like the one available by Sendible for auto-posting. Adding feeds to update through Twitter will allow you to appear active also. These will allow you to disconnect from Twitter physically and mentally so you can conduct other business and refresh your mind.Using a service such as Twitterfeed, you can set RSS feeds to auto-post to your Twitter. Choose a RSS feed that contains topics that you are interested in and can help your brand. Set the RSS feeds to auto-post to your Twitter as often as you request. To make it more personal, try Sendible which allows you to create a message along with the date, time, repetitive behavior and frequency to Tweet.
• Auto post some updates.
  It’s like having a Twitter clone. Whether you’ve added feeds to update through Twitter, or you’ve signed up for an auto-posting option such as the one offered by Sendible, there are plenty of ways in which you can physically and mentally disconnect from Twitter without your presence being removed from the microblogging platform. Others will still receive your tweets and see your online Twitter activity, even if you aren’t actively tweeting.
• Shut Down The Twitter Tab
  Professional bloggers and business developers use Twitter as a primary means of communication. Otherwise, when you get distracted, just disconnect from Twitter. Once you’ve given your mind time to relax, you can reconnect with Twitter and be much more alert and focused.