When you start a new blog, you will want to increase the blog subscribers. Increasing the subscribers can provide you with regular readers. Such loyal readers can help you make a good blog. Increasing subscribers can be slow and difficult, especially if you are staring out. But the following 10 tips can help you to achieve the result faster.

1. Make it visible

You need to make your rss subscription visible. The ideal position of your subscription button is above the fold. Above the fold is the area of your blog visitors can see without the need to scroll down. You can place rss feed buttons instead of just links for greater visibility. There are a wide variety of rss icons available free on internet. You just need to search on rss feed icons on Google or Yahoo. Keep in mind that placing a unique icon can increase your subscriber count. But make sure that the icon is in perfect match with your blog template. You can also place the feed icon below every blog posts.

2. Give free e-book

How many times have you subscribed to a blog, just because it offers free e-book? People are always looking for something to get for free. When you give a free e-book along with the subscription, people tends to subscribe to your blog. But keep in mind that a few of your subscribers may unsubscribe after getting the free e-book. But the overall subscription rate will continue to increase. Many blogs have made impressive subscriber count just by giving away such freebies.

3. Offer email subscription

While there are many blogs offering rss feeds, there is still a large portion of internet readers, who are still uneducated about rss. So it will be a good idea to provide email feeds along with rss. You can use services like feedburer.com or mailchimp.com to manage your subscriptions. If you are not at all interested in creating email subscriptions, you can create a special page on your blog to educate the readers about rss.

4. Post in forums

You can increase the subscriber count by placing the feed url as signature in forum posts. To make this method a success, you need to register in forums that operate in your niche. But make sure you post useful content (don’t spam). You get more subscribers with this method as you do more forum posts since you link appears that many times. You can customize th

e signature so that the reader is inclined to click it. “Subscribe for free” is more attractive than “click here”.

5. Displaying subscriber count

Showing off your subscriber count can increase your subscriber count even further. But this technique only works if your count is appreciable. But if you have a good amount of subscribers, placing such count can create a chain reaction among readers. When one see that a certain number of users are subscribing, a natural instinct comes over one to subscribe for that blog.

6. Running a contest

Another way to exponentially increase your subscribers is by running a contest. You can run a contest just for your email subscribers. Sending those subscribers private emails can ensure that only your subscribers are involved. You can run a contest such that the winner is featured in an article on the blog. Or you can give away something valuable.

7. Guest posting

Guest posting can go a long way in improving your blog. Guest posting is not only useful in increasing the traffic to the blog, but also to improve subscriber count. You can place a link to you subscription feed on the byline of your guest post. But make sure you guest post to blogs with a little higher traffic than your blog.