Very often you find yourself in a position that you want to subscribe to someone’s feed, but you simply have trouble finding the RSS link. Well are you sure that is not happening with your blog too? Maybe your RSS button is buried among other buttons and links? Here are some tools and tips that will help you increase the visibility of your feed button and in the same time increase your feed subscribers count.
Prominent and easily visible feed button is crucial to getting more subscribers to your feed these days. People simply don’t have time to look for hidden buttons or links, and your task is to make the feed link visible on your blog. One of the techniques to make your feed button visible is increasing it’s size or making it stand apart from the rest of your site, mostly by using nice eye-catching colors. That is why I assembled a list of the best sites with free RSS button icons that I’ve found online:
I am sure that choosing the right icon and placing it on your blog will greatly help your feed subscribers. You should also read my previous post about increasing RSS subscribers on your blog.
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3 Responses
Michael Martin
21|Jul|2008 1Thanks for the link! I like what you did with the smashing RSS icon at the end of your posts.
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21|Jul|2008 2Thanks for include my site on your list :). Glad you liked the icons
Ima Li Vas Sajt RSS Feed?
08|Aug|2008 3[...] Ukoliko jos uvek nemate RSS feed na vasem sajtu, a pritom vas sajt nudi ceste novosti i obavestenja, dobro bi bilo da ponudite svojim posetiocima i tu mogucnost. Ovde mozete naci detaljne specifikacije sta feed po RSS 2.0 standardu treba da sadrzi. Zavisno od CMS-a (sistem odnosno softver za menadzovanje sadrzaja) kojeg koristite, zavisice i lakoca isporuke RSS feed-a na vasem sajtu. Ukoliko koristite recimo Wordpress platformu, feed ce vam se automatski kreirati i to na adresi vassajt.com/feed. U slucaju da koristite neku drugu platformu, morate se raspitati da li ta CMS platforma automatski kreira feed za vas i gde se on nalazi. Dobra praksa je da kada nadjete svoj feed, na index sajta postavite ili tekstualni link ka feed-u ili neku zanimljivu RSS ikonicu. [...]
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