Why Should You Use Feedburner To Attract More Readers? Feedburner is a web-based device to keep track of snippets of RSS feeds. Feedburner also helps people by enhancing the product endorsement process via online service. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is used to publish frequently updated blog entries, news headlines, audio, and videos. It is part of a web content publication tool, which is user-friendly to website users who wish to publish content to reach online readers successfully.
People read updates about different sites regularly, and they decide, which website come in handy for different purposes. RSS feeds allow online visitors to check updates about your site with out visiting the site which is a very good thing some times it hard to keep up with a lot of websites when the update their content by subscribing to their RSS you will know immediately when a website has enter a new post just by logging into you RSS Reader.
Encouraging Your Readers to Subscribe to Feedburner
Feedburner has a few tools you can use to help subscribe more readers to your content. Some the more popular ways are adding a email subscription whenever a readers subscribes they will be email your blog spot immediately a great way to get your content in front of your readers. Secondly you have the chicklet which is use for RSS Readers its place on your website it’s a snippet of html code that can be place on your website.
(Screenshot of the many chicklets on feedburner)
Using Feedburner to Understanding what your Readers likes
When writing content you want to know what your reader think is good is it relevant effort or what should I write more of with feedburner you can see what is the most popular content you readers like this makes it better for you to choose better topic s to write on and gain more readers and keep the read you have. Feedburner provides useful data to help find your what your reader want to read.
FeedBurner’s subscribers counts how many times your feed has been requested in a 24-hour period. Subscribers are how many people are subscribed to your feed. The Reach is the number of people who have viewed or clicked on the content in your feed. Knowing which post your visits are viewing the most can help which content to force on.
Monetizing Your Content with Feedburner
Monetizing can also be great for you readers because they can choose from different sites to learn more about their topic they are on. Providing relevant ads helps the read discover more great sites . This can be also a great benefit for you as well there are many ways to monetize your content here are a few suggestions
- Adding Google Adsense Place Adsense ads on your blog’s RSS feed.
- Affiliate Marketing
- Selling Ad Space on your Blog
- Become an Amazon affiliate: Amazon has a associate programs for bloggers and webmasters.
- Adding In-text Advertisements like Infolink or Kontera.
Conclusion
In today’s post we have went over what is Feedburner and RSS and why its beneficial for your business. Encouraging reader to subscribe to your subscriptions and analyzing your readers this will constantly let you know about new subscribers and what your reader enjoy reading about. And finally give your audience relevant ads inside of your content feeds to learn even more.
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2 Comments
Ilka Flood
March 3, 2011Hi Anthony,
Thanks for the in-depth explanation what Feedburner is! I have used it for years but I sure didn’t know all this. Learned something new today, thanks to you.
All the Best,
Ilka
AskAnthonyJohnson
March 5, 2011Hi Ilka
Thanks for the great comment I cant wait to see your next post!
-Anthony
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