Make Money Blogging With Thomas Sinfield

I started this blog back in about August last year and since then I have increase my feed count from 0 too 106. I know its a good start but I want more. I once got told:

Be happy with your current situation but never satisfied. Because when you are satisfied you never want anything more.

I started this year with 88 RSS feed subscribers and the following goals:

• 150 Subscribers by the end of February
• 500 Subscribers by the end of the year

I set these goals to stretch me. I didn’t want to make easy goals, I wanted goals that would make me think, and plan and act. So obviously I am in the situation now where I have look at ways to build my rss feed count and I want to do so creatively.

Here are 4 Ways I Thought To Increase Your RSS Feed Count

1. Have Great Content

I know this is a simple one and one I have not mastered yet, but great content doesn’t have to be unique content. What great content is, is content that makes people stay. It could be:

• A hot topic spun in an interesting way.
• Controversy - Find out what the probloggers are saying and say the complete opposite
• In depth reviews and opinions
• Your humour

2. Be Active In Your Niche

A great example of this point is Caroline Middlebrook. She quit her job at the end of August last year and started documenting her online money making journey at her blog - so she started blogging the same time as me. Yet if you look at her stats you will see that she has over 1300 RSS feed subscribers! How did she get so many subscribers compared to me?

Well she does my first point extremely well! She has very in depth and helpful content, but I think the main this is that she is very active in her niche. I started noticing her comments on a lot of the blogs that I visited. Not just little ‘nothing’ comments, but well thought out and constructive comments that benefited both the writer of the blog and their visitors.

All her hard work and effort commenting didn’t go unnoticed with both ProBlogger and Yaro Starak - among other bloggers, both writing blog posts about her and her commenting habits.

3. Give Something Away

Offer a gift to the people who subscribe to your blog. The best way of doing this is giving away a product to anyone who subscribes via email (if you know a better way let me know!) - this allows you to verify that they do in fact subscribe. But You could work on an honesty policy.

What Can You Use As Gifts?

Anything that is of value to your readers. I great gift is ebooks. Preferably something you have written because then it is unique, but if not there are a lot of master resell rights available on ebooks.

4. Competitions

I have run a couple of competitions my latest one being my most successful where the winner won a copy of the Premium News Wordpress Theme - this was something that I had won and so didn’t cost me anything.

Competitions are something that I am wanting to focus more on this coming year as I have seen some very well done completions bring in some good results - specifically the Shoemoney v John Chow and the WinningTheWeb v Tyler Cruz competitions.

I am talking with a few other bloggers at the moment about a possible competition and hopefully something good will come from that.

Well those are a few of my ideas about gaining RSS feed readers. If you have any other ideas or comments on what I have mentioned let me know below!

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