The Financial Blogger said:

here's my 2 cents:

- contest definitely help on the short term (after that, you must deliver good content ;-) )

- make your RSS button bigger

- I would change your small RSS box text for somethign like : "you liked what you have read? get our latest update in your mailbox for free by subscribing to our RSS feed"

- add the same box at the end of your post

 

I see 125 today... great increase ;-D

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you talkin' to me, punk? ;) haha
 

email me yer suggestions for our site would ya pal?  we have no text on our RSS box, so i'm assuming you can't be referring to us! hee hee

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

;-)

here's my 2 cents:

- contest definitely help on the short term (after that, you must deliver good content ;-) )

- make your RSS button bigger

- I would change your small RSS box text for somethign like : "you liked what you have read? get our latest update in your mailbox for free by subscribing to our RSS feed"

- add the same box at the end of your post

 

I see 125 today... great increase ;-D

email me yer suggestions for our site would ya pal?  we have no text on our RSS box, so i'm assuming you can't be referring to us! hee hee

- contest definitely help on the short term (after that, you must deliver good content ;-) )

- make your RSS button bigger

- I would change your small RSS box text for somethign like : "you liked what you have read? get our latest update in your mailbox for free by subscribing to our RSS feed"

- add the same box at the end of your post

I see 125 today... great increase ;-D

Jaymus. If I have my feed burned to feedburner and have always used that as my subscribe option, then do I need this plug in? I am trying to understand what issues SPF has been having and if I am unknowingly having the same issues.

I e-installed it today and my readers jumped to 124!!! (from 64)  I am finally OK with showing the count widget.

The issue I had, I think, was I was pointing to the wrong feed (the RSS2 not the other one).

We also use WWSGD but you'd never see that Miss T :)

Btw - why did you ditch sexy bookmarks?

Thanks Jaymus

I've had some real issues w/ my site feed vs published feed and when they actually display in our readers RSS.  So if I set it up to the faster feed people will hopefully see our feeds within 30 mins of publishing instead of the random 3-10 hours we're getting now.

I use "what would Seth Godin Do."

A message shows right on top asking reader to subscribe if he/she is new (first 3 times.)

I am a fan of mre 'old school' icons that clearly indicate what they are for.  The ones I have on my site, for instance, are not as flashy but they are instantly recognizable.  And, to better assist my reader, I also altered them to include a simple keyword.

That said, a lot of people don't subscribe to RSS feeds, so don't worry if you don't get a lot of subscribers that way. 

SPF - the plugin I use is "FD Feedburner":

http://wordpress.org/extend/pl.....er-plugin/

 

It will redirect all feeds to the feedburner url you put in its options.  Works like a charm.  It won't magically get you more subscribers, but it will ensure all of your feed subscribers are getting the same feed from feedburner, no matter how they subscribed.

Thanks Jaymus!

that's a great point . .  i have realized best results after key events/milestones . . . so it happens with each key event, but that said, the count has been increasing more rapidly as of late, as i am seeing more organic search engine traffic resulting from SEO

Before today our previous visit top 5 were: 310, 278 and 269.  Today, with 3.5 hrs left until midnight we've had 593 visits …. it has been an exciting day! :)

Previous highs on unique visitors are 268,267 and 243 - today 546!