Encourage your blog and website visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed.
Make it easy for your visitors to subscribe.
Create a hyperlink on your blog or website that points to your RSS feed.
Consider adding special links for various RSS feed readers.
Describe what RSS is and how it can be used.
Add Autodiscovery Statements.
Consider a separate page for Websites
I am surprised when I visit blogs or websites that have feeds, but have
nothing on the blog or website to encourage visitors to subscribe. It is a
little like publishing an ezine with no way for people to sign-up for the ezine.
This is a very easy step. There is no reason not to.
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Create a hyperlink on your blog that points to your RSS Feed. Put the
link in a prominent place.
You can add special buttons for your readers for the popular RSS Readers.
Many RSS Readers provide guidelines to Webmasters. The guidelines generate
buttons and code that will allow your visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed
with ease.
This is a clever service that provides a way to generate all the HTML
code for your blog or website to show all the above buttons. Enter your feed information, all the RSS Feed readers you
want to support, and it will generate all the HTML code.
Describe what RSS is and how it can be used.
Because RSS is new, consider adding instructions on what RSS is and how it
can be helpful. You can add text or point to an article or this tutorial.
The RSS feeds could refer to one or more Webpages.
Consider creating a separate RSS subscription page
I suggest creating one webpage that is the RSS Subscription Page. This page
should contain all the information to subscribe to the RSS feeds. The page
should
contain the following.
A link to all the RSS Feeds.
Special links for various feed readers.
Description of what RSS is and how it can be used.
