DISQUS

dandellion Kimban · 2 years ago

hmmm.... As an another reader of the blog somebody leave feed's URL instead of homepage, I would consider that almost a fraud. That field there is meant to give opportunity for commenters to introduce themselves. I do keep do_follow on my blog because I think it is a nice thing to reward people who comment with a linkback, but it is not a place for promoting feeds. And if I would click the like to see who the person behind the comment is and went on feed subscribing page, I wouldn't bother to find my way to the blog, let alone to actually subscribe.

Michael · 2 years ago

I'll have to try that out for a little bit and see how it does, one thing I've been trying to focus on lately is increasing my Feedburner count, if this worked for you I'll have to try it.

Scam · 2 years ago

Garry, how much of that 301 increase in readers can you attribute to this particular tip?

Jordan Pearce · 2 years ago

Thank you for the info I'll test this out. Maybe you could drop a Technorati faves link as well.

Joyce Babu · 2 years ago

Good idea. But I am not sure how many of them will subscribe to the feed. Anyway I am going to try it. :)

Alexander · 2 years ago

Wow that means you have written over 400 comments !

ROFL

alex

David · 2 years ago

I am going to try using my feedburner link starting now. :-)

I also visit blogs that use commentLuv and focus on my niche. I've noticed that when comment love goes out to get your blogs first post and link to it that my Feedburner Smth plugin would return the feedburner url to my first post.

My initial reaction was to turn that plug in off during times of commenting, hoping to get direct incomming links, but the nofollow got me. Even on blogs claiming to be nofollow I do not pick up any incomming links. So I just leave the Feedburner Smith plugin active and let CommentLuv pick up my feedburner url.

I think for getting backlinks the best way is to write an article and submit it to article directories and let others pick it up and republish. type "by travis clemens" (that is a pen name I use on http://www.best-fishing-tips.com). You will get about 2,470 pages and that number keeps going up. Unfortunately the site only ranks well for "Fishing Tips" which is a non profitable keyword.

Ok, I am getting side tracked now. Thanks for the tip on using the feedburner url, I am definately going to start using it.

Garry Conn · 2 years ago

One thing I would make sure you do though, and I forgot to mention this in the post....

Make sure that you have your FeedBurner set to "BrowserFriendly". This will put your blogs home page and hyperlinkable title on the very top of the page. People can easily either click to your home page or subscribe to your feed in their favorite RSS reader.

Without using the "BrowserFriendly" feature on FeedBurner, you cause your readers to click on one of your posts pages to get to your site, and they might not necessarily want to do that.

The key for me, is using "BrowserFriendly" on FeedBurner. That way it basically creates just one little "Hop Page" where readers can quickly decide to subscribe or just move on to the home page.

Randy Brown · 2 years ago

That is a good tip Gary, and i'ma give it a try.. I just wonder how many of the subscribers 'stick' ?

Garry Conn · 2 years ago

That all depends on how well you capture their attention in your posts. :)

Trent Brownrigg · 2 years ago

Now that's a great idea! Never even crossed my mind to do that. I will definitely test it out for a while and see what happens.

Querblogger · 2 years ago

Hi!

Nice article and definitely a nice tip to fill in your feed adress as URL. And I also agree with you that blogs with more feed subscribers enjoy a better ranking (or are visited more often). I won´t suggest you looking at my blog as I only have 15 subscribers ;)

See you,
Querblogger

Madhur Kapoor · 2 years ago

I am also going to try it Garry. Just love your creative ideas.

DayJpbNuker (Bruce) · 2 years ago

LOL I saw someone leave a comment on my site today with the feed. Very first time I have ever seen that!

IngaOz · 2 years ago

Ooo! I see almost everyone is using Feedburner feed now when replies to this post... Me too! Me too!!! Another great advice from You, Garry, Thanks! As from now I will always use my Feedburner feed for comments. :D

Easy Money From Home · 2 years ago

Sounds like a great idea! I'll try it on a few of my blogs.

CFernandes · 2 years ago

Actually this is a very good tip.

The person can than click to the site, or just see a few of you last posts. Very nice!

Bong (JB) · 2 years ago

Thanks Garry. It's amazing you never run out of useful tips. I'm gonna try this one too. :)

Kyle Eslick · 2 years ago

Man, I love the look of that comment form you are using in the picture! *drools*

Good tip too!

dunn · 2 years ago

I'm waiting for your second post. :)

Alexander · 2 years ago

Garry,

isn't that cheating ? I meen every time you insert a comment with your feed url you add a reader in your feedburner counter, but that aren't true readers, only comments you posted. I think that on the long run you need readers, not a hacked counter.

ciao
alex

Alexander · 2 years ago

I re-read the post and think I got it wrong. Help me to get it right.

First I understood that entering the feed in the comment url would AUTOMATICALLY add 1 as a subscriber to your Feedburner counter. This would be a fake, as long as it would be counting your comments, not how many real readers you have.

Now I think to understand that it works this way: a reader sees your comment, clicks on your (feed)url, comes to your Feedburner BrowserFriendly home page, aknowledges that you have awesome content, cannot resist to immediatly subscribe to your feed (which is just a click away).

Is it the latter how it works ?

ciao
alex

Fred @ Newest on the Net · 2 years ago

Great article Garry. My only hesitancy with using this approach is turning off readers. They expect to be taken to your homepage, not a feedburner page. Maybe I am being too sensitive.

I wrote an article titled 35 Guaranteed Ways to Increase Your RSS Subscribers. I thought that your readers might like it.

http://newestonthenet.com/35-guaranteed-ways-to...

Garry Conn · 2 years ago

I totally consider this page as a home page of mine. Here is the thing about my FeedBurner Page... this page remains the same no matter what. My blog can break, hackers can destroy it, my hosting company could go out of business, etc...

No matter what happens to my blog, my server, or my hosting company, one thing remains the same:
http://www.feeds.feedburner.com/successful-blog...

What if I forget to renew my domain name? See what I mean? No matter what happens to my blog, I have my feedburner addy, and this URL is the center to over 430 people that read my blog.

<img src="http://clarksvillewebs.com/sandbox/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/feedburner-shot-small.png">

Mike Huang · 2 years ago

What a great way to increase feed subscribers :)

-Mike

Laura · 2 years ago

Great idea! I'll have to try this. I also added the seth godin plugin on my blog today.

Robin Sampson · 2 years ago

Thanks for the tip

Jenny · 2 years ago

Interesting. I am trying it now. Let's see if it actually works. :)

Michael Aulia · 2 years ago

LoL kinda cheating, but I'll give it a go..as I get a constant 50-80 visitors a day but only 3 feedburner subscriber at the moment (used to be 7 lol) - it's a 3 months old blog

Squeaky · 1 year ago

I did try this and had negative response that it was more of a cheating method, as Michael stated.

After trying this, I have to say that having good content is more of what I am looking for and want that to trigger people to sign up for my feeds.

Forest Parks · 2 years ago

I love the idea of putting my feed in the website part.

Thanks a million..... again!

Tiffany · 1 year ago

Hi Garry!! Nice blog!! I have soooo much to learn. :) I have one question though???? Can I make it where when people subscribe to my blog and I post a new one, that they have to click on a link to take them to my website INSTEAD of just getting an email of the post?? Do you know what I mean??? I want to change it and I just can't seem to figure it out. I would SOOO appreciate your help! ~Tiffany

O. Messaoud · 1 year ago

Well, I am trying it right now, so why doesn't everyone of you just click on my link and subscribe to my feed? :)

Venkatesh Varalu · 1 year ago

ok.. nice idea. I am starting to test this from your site... i mean from this post of yours. :)

Blog Tambayan · 1 year ago

That's a great help!! thx!!

mikey777 · 1 year ago

This really is a fantastic idea. And you're right. No matter what happens to your blog, your feed will always be there. Very innovative!

juliemarg · 1 year ago

What a great idea! I'm currently working on a site redesign intended to gt me more subscribers for my feed and my newsletter. As soon as we're done, I'll be implementing this idea!

Jag · 1 year ago

Good thought Garry :)

Raj · 1 year ago

great idea!! thanks Garry. Most of ur commenter use feed url.

crackzsl · 1 year ago

Yeah it is a new guide.

crackzsl · 1 year ago

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Enbee · 1 year ago

I think I am so late to comment on the post. There are mixed comments given here. but I feel this is not a bad idea, because I have attempted to comment on posts at several sites, but in return nothing. Therefore just I would like to test it for time being. Subscribed your feed and I will try to become a regular visitor to your page. Thanks.

Squeaky · 1 year ago

I think it is a good idea, so I am going to try that out starting now and right here. For some reason, my feedburner reader count doesn't grow. I don't think my content is boring, I still think it is traffic or something simple that I am over looking.

Ashfame · 1 year ago

Even I don't think its a good trick. Nice brains BTW.

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Keral Patel · 1 year ago

Thanks that is a nice idea.

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contrariwise · 1 year ago

Gary,
Very nice tip. However, Your feedburner address took me to the following page:

HTTP Error (Code) and Message: (404) Feed not found error: FeedBurner cannot locate this feed URI.

!!!!

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IngaOz · 1 year ago

Yeah.... and somewhere i read that all good goes to feedburner.com....

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Karen · 1 year ago

Hi and thanks for the advice, i never really though of adding my feedburner url, but now whenever I'm on a nofollow blog I will take your advice and use it instead of my blogs URL ;)

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Jason · 3 months ago

It seems that you get some credit for the link even when nofollow is used. When following this tip you should use My Brand with feedburner so that the feed is on your own domain name to get any possible link juice.