How To Boost Up Your Subscriber Base

Many beginners tends to underestimate the importance of building a strong subscriber base of their blogs. A successful blog is not just well written and well presented content, its maintaining a dedicated and passionate subscriber base who would read your content and spread it across their own networks. Engaged readers provide long term and reliable traffic to your blog.

While there is denying that building a loyal subscriber base can be a tricky and long process, it can be done with dedication and hard work by the bloggers. So those who do work on it need to do it right to make sure that their time is well utilized. Here are the following steps to boost up your subscriber base. 

Give Your Readers A Reason To Subscribe :

If someone visits your blog and see the button " Subscribe Us " , He/She should know exactly what they will get from subscribing your blog. For Example, if your blog is about Internet Marketing, you should have a text that says " cover all inbound marketing, SEO marketing and email marketing " . Giving your readers an incentive to subscribe is a plus that will push them to subscribe your blog. Everybody likes free stuff, so will your readers. Offer them an exclusive ebook or something relevant on a certain topic that was not covered in your posts in return for subscribing to the blog.

Simple is Better :

Its a basic rule of web design that your website should lead the user to the desire action in less than three clicks. In this case, the subscription process can be made as simple as one click. Soon enough you will figure out that there are many people out there who are unfamiliar with the concept of RSS Feeds. Try explaining to them how it works and how wonderful it is. Then of course, there are readers who simply don't prefer RSS. In that case provide them with an alternative, most commonly, an email subscription to your blog.

Produce Quality Content :

While it may be obvious, but no matter how great your marketing and subscriptions strategies for your blogs are, Your readers will never return to you if they are not satisfied with the content. Try to find peek traffic times for your blog and posts on those time to touch the as many readers as possible. If posting on those times is a problem for you, schedule your posts to be published, schedule your posts to be published on the specified timings. Write frequently and write well. That is the key concept.

Leverage Social Proof :

People tend to follow the masses, its human nature. That remains true in case of blogging. You can make us of this to make people subscribe to your blog. While the scheme may not work particularly well for a newer blog, it can work handsomely for a blog with a decent number of subscribers. Display the numbers of subscribers of your blog has next to the subscribe button. Not only does this boost their confident in your blog, but also pushes them to subscribe to a blog that is followed and trusted by many.

Use All Available Resources :

Use your existing blogs, websites, social media to convince audience to subscribe your blog. If you already have a subscriber base elsewhere, You can easily convince them to subscribe to the blog since they already enjoy your content. They might even recommend your RSS feed to others. Add social media sharing buttons to the blog posts. If your reader enjoyed a post, they can share it with there Facebook/Twitter/Google networks and eventually some of them will end up subscribing to your blog. Let the readers do some work too.

Although there is a lot more you can do to help your blog gain more subscribers, these tips petty much form the gist of them. So what have you done to increase the subscriber base of your blog ?