How To Get More Followers and Feed Readers, The Easy And Safe Way

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Everyone knows that a successful blog is all about visitor interaction and communication. Calling to action, encouragement and being a helpful person can make the difference between a well read blog and a unsuccessful one. Here are a few tips on how to get more followers and feed readers using the safe and easy way.

#1 Teach your readers and followers that they can retweet

A very important aspect of twitter is the fact that users can retweet. Encourage and teach your followers the importance of retweeting your links. Retweeting pushes your username (@user) into other social categories, thus having more retweets means more clicks on your profile and finally more followers.

#2 Update and retouch your key pages and Bio

One of the most greatest mistakes people make is neglecting their key blog pages like the About page and their Twitter Bio information. If you have a faulty Bio information, users tend not to follow you, because they don’t know much about you. The same rule applies to your blog pages, if a user visits your page they will not likely become a regular blog reader.

#3 Link everything up, everywhere you can

It is very important to have your profiles linked everywhere, like Facebook, Youtube, forum signatures and even in blog commenting. Everywhere you can link in your online life. The result are more readers, followers and better blog exposure.

#4 Hash #tag things when you tweet

Hash tagging means you can tag a specific word in your tweet to make it more available. Finding interesting tweets is more easy with hash tagging. You can learn more about hash tagging here.

#5 Make shure that the user SEE the fact that he can follow you

Having a small and not visible Follow Me or Subscribe link can result in less readers and followers. Make shure you can stand out with your Follow and Subscribe links, and preferably ask a subscription at the bottom of every post.

#6 Launch a contest, offer something for a cause

Offer something in return for following you on Twitter, a iPhone, iPod or something. As Kevin wrote, someone offered a MackBook if he reached nr. 1 followed person on Twitter. That never happened but the person got thousands of followers.

#7 Again, offer something to get more RSS readers

This time offer something that the user can get (Ebook, icons, templates) onlu trough RSS, you can use the free Feedvertising plugin, and when you offer a link to something only the subscribed users can view it.

#8 Reply, get involved and start talking in your niche

Reply to things on Twitter, get involved in the conversations and give helpful comments. Try and become a valuable user by offering help to others. The results are more trusted followers.

#9 Use a landing page to your RSS

Be creative, use something to attract users to subscribe, in this case, a well defined landing page with nothing but your RSS subscription. Drive traffic to it from your blog, guest blogging or even Adwords.

So there you have it, with one additional word of caution.

These are good facts, only when you are producing the best content in your niche. If you are not writing your best, perhaps you should start there. But eventually using the tips form above you can definitely Get More Followers and Feed Readers.

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