Are you distributing your RSS feed the ‘right way'?
The wrong way is to publish only excerpts of your blog posts, with a link to the article inviting the reader to ‘read the full article at ____”. Folks subscribe to your and others' feeds to get all the content they want from one source, i.e. Google Reader. Therefore, when you post only excerpts, your blog gets far less traffic than it otherwise would.
On the other hand, when you distribute your feed the ‘right way' and allow the entire contents of individual blog posts to be posted to Google and other feed readers, chances are that you are losing visitors to your blog as well.
Losing traffic means loss of revenue — never a happy outcome.
One way to entice readers to visit your blog is to make sure that you include links within and at the end of your posts to encourage them to read more.
Another way to bring readers of your feed back to your blog is to use software designed to enhance the feed.
Watch the video below to see how it works on my feed.
I've been using “Bring My Blog Visitors Back” by MaxBlogPress for the past month and have seen a increase in the number of visits from the feed to both new articles as well as some of the older posts on my blog.
That's because the plugin's functionality allows you to:
- Display related posts… as well as…
- Display social icons,
- Display Number of Comments,
- Display Latest User Comment,
- Display header and footer text/banners,
- Display copyright notice
All those feed extras almost guarantee that readers will click one of those links to visit your blog.
MaxBlogPress Bring My Blog Visitors Back is a powerful WordPress Plugin that offers you more flexibility and control over the RSS feeds, enticing your RSS readers to visit your blog without slightest annoyance and at the same time, adds value and increases readership of the blog.
Note: The plugin will be made available for sale on July 12th, 2012 at 9AM Eastern. For the early access waiting list, please go to Bring My Blog Visitors Back and signup.
If you'd like to learn more about the plugin and how a straight RSS Feed might be ripping off your visitors, please watch The Dark Side of RSS video.
Another tip I find helps increase your rss reach is to make sure you’re embedding images within your posts. I’m a sucker for great copy, but imagery pushes the engagement level up a notch for me.
Hi Rosalind,
I have use this product month ago when it was first available on the market. But i found plugin NOT able to do good stuff.
On replace i found free plugin ‘Readers From RSS 2 Blog’ and was surprise to see this plugin doing all stuff for FREE which i have paid for and the PRO version offering me more then i can possibly imagine.
So for me ‘Bring My Blog’ is not for a bloggers, I SUGGEST all bloggers to use ‘Readers From RSS 2 Blog’ which is FREE and does all stuff you are paying for.
Thanks
Hi Darren,
Not sure how you could have used the product a month ago when it was only made available to consumers on July 9th.
Cheers,
Ros
Darren is right rosalind maxblog has announce this product already on April 23, 2012 and this is second launch of the product.
i tried to go the readers from rss 2 blog with no success.
then i tried maxblog and found that it was french
then after a search in yahoo i found maxblogpress success.
cheers,
Paul
I tried to look at the video “The Dark Side of RSS” and I got a 404 error.
Hi Bob,
Thanks kindly for letting me know about the link. It’s fixed now. 🙂
Cheers,
Ros
You just made a LOAD of money by sending this product advertisement to everyone on your list ! what i want to see is PROOF from your subscribers and purchasers of your products of how much money THEY have earnt from your knowledge and experience.!!!
Hello Kelly,
Did I really? Considering the product isn’t yet available for sale, that’s a pretty interesting (and wrong) assertion.
As for getting proof from my subscribers — perhaps you could take the time to read the testimonials on my various sites, OR just ask them yourself.
Cheers,
Ros
Thanks Ros. With the increase in smart phones and tablets, I think more and more people will be using RSS readers. So, it’s essential to make sure it’s configured better by using a simple tool like Bring My Blog Visitors Back.
Do you know what the price will be?
Best Regards
Ian McConnell
Western Australia
Hey Ian,
Not sure if you got my first reply… somehow it wasn’t posted here on the site.
You make really good points about mobile and tablet computers.
As for the price… I really don’t know. Guess we’ll wait and see.
Cheers,
Ros
Sounds pretty cool, signed up and waiting. Thanks for sharing this one, Rosalind. I am one of those that is strongly against displaying excerpts only and always unsubscribe from blogs that do that.
Thanks for sharing, Brankica. Your comment strongly supports the argument for using such a plugin.
Cheers,
Ros
Nice article. I’ve been using Feedity – http://feedity.com to create RSS feeds for several webpages as part of my affiliate marketing work. It’s been working great so far. Thought I’d share 🙂 Best!
Hi Alex,
Thanks for sharing. I always recommend creating feeds through the industry standard though – Feedburner by Google.
Cheers,
Ros