Keeping Your Readers Updated
Okay, so you've started your own blog or a website with an RSS feed to keep your readers up to date on new features and articles as you post them.
That's great!
But now you have to take the next step to getting your message out. You can greatly increase the number of people who subscribe to your feeds just by offering them an easy way to do so.
Scroll up to the top of this screen and look right under the Blog title and description. Go ahead, I'll wait for you...
Back? Did you see all the little boxes that say "Add to Google", "My Yahoo!" and "My MSN"?
Well they didn't come with this blog, I put them there.
They are an easy way for anyone to subscribe to my blog feed. Just click on that "My Yahoo!" button and a screen will pop up allowing you to add the Internet Marketing Insider to your My Yahoo! page.
People spend a lot of time on pages like My Yahoo! because they added the content themsleves and they know they can trust it.
That makes it valuable online real estate and there's no reason you should be on it.
At the very least you should add buttons for the Big 3 of Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. You'll see great increases in both subscribers and traffic to your site.
Plus, it only takes a minute to do:
There, I just did it again...pretty cool huh?
Now I'll show you how to do it. Just copy and paste this code into your site or blog:
<a href="http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=
http://yourdomain.com/atom.xml">
<img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com
/i/us/my/addtomyyahoo4.gif" style="border:0"></a>
<a href="http://fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=http://yourdomain.com/atom.xml"><img src="http://www.google.com/webmasters/add-to-
google-plus.gif" border="0" align=middle alt="Add to Google"></a>
<a href="http://my.msn.com/addtomymsn.armx?id=rss&ut=http://yourdomain.com/atom.xml&tt=
CENTRALDIRECTORY&ru=http://rss.msn.com">
<img src="http://sc.msn.com/c/rss/rss_mymsn.gif"
style="border:0" width="71" height="14"></a>
Just change "yourdomain.com" to your actual domain and you will have given your readers an easy way to stay up to date on everything you have to offer.
That's great!
But now you have to take the next step to getting your message out. You can greatly increase the number of people who subscribe to your feeds just by offering them an easy way to do so.
Scroll up to the top of this screen and look right under the Blog title and description. Go ahead, I'll wait for you...
Back? Did you see all the little boxes that say "Add to Google", "My Yahoo!" and "My MSN"?
Well they didn't come with this blog, I put them there.
They are an easy way for anyone to subscribe to my blog feed. Just click on that "My Yahoo!" button and a screen will pop up allowing you to add the Internet Marketing Insider to your My Yahoo! page.
People spend a lot of time on pages like My Yahoo! because they added the content themsleves and they know they can trust it.
That makes it valuable online real estate and there's no reason you should be on it.
At the very least you should add buttons for the Big 3 of Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. You'll see great increases in both subscribers and traffic to your site.
Plus, it only takes a minute to do:
There, I just did it again...pretty cool huh?
Now I'll show you how to do it. Just copy and paste this code into your site or blog:
<a href="http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=
http://yourdomain.com/atom.xml">
<img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com
/i/us/my/addtomyyahoo4.gif" style="border:0"></a>
<a href="http://fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=http://yourdomain.com/atom.xml"><img src="http://www.google.com/webmasters/add-to-
google-plus.gif" border="0" align=middle alt="Add to Google"></a>
<a href="http://my.msn.com/addtomymsn.armx?id=rss&ut=http://yourdomain.com/atom.xml&tt=
CENTRALDIRECTORY&ru=http://rss.msn.com">
<img src="http://sc.msn.com/c/rss/rss_mymsn.gif"
style="border:0" width="71" height="14"></a>
Just change "yourdomain.com" to your actual domain and you will have given your readers an easy way to stay up to date on everything you have to offer.
posted by Mike Collins at 10:11 AM
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