Passionate Push To 1000 Feed Subscribers - Week 3 & 4

I took a week off from publishing the feed subscription averages for week 3. Week 3 subscribers average was down a little from the week 2 average. The average for week 3 was 75.

Now moving on to week 4 and the numbers are up. This week the average has increased to 80. Only 920 more to go in the next 5 months. I have some more tips, techniques, and secrets I learned along the way to help you increase your feed subscribers, so keep reading.

Below is the a graph showing each day from week 4 and how many feed subscribers Passionate America dot com had on each day.

The trend continues around Thursday the feed subscribers are at their peak.

Tips, Techniques, and Secrets for growing your RSS feed subscription averages

One of the best ways to track information about your feeds and get more control over your feeds is to use FeedBurner.com.

Some of the advantages to using FeedBurner.com to turbo charge your feeds.

• Analyze your feed — FeedBurner gives you feed stats to help you track your feed activity. I use their feed stats to make the graphs for this post and to calculate the average number of feed subscribers for each week.FeedBurner can also track stats for your website.
• Optimize your feed — FeedBurner’s BrowserFriendly option lets you change the appearance of your feed. SmartCast helps format your podcast feeds for iTunes which can increase your podcast feed downloads. SmartFeed converts your feed to to be compatible with the largest number of feed readers. FeedFlare places a footer at the bottom of each content item, helping you to distribute, inform and create a community around your content. There are many more optimization options that FeedBurner offers.
• Publicize your feeds — The Publicize tab allows you to use many FeedBurner feature to market your feed.
• Monetize your feeds — Yes you can even make some money with your FeedBurner feed. Feedburner allows you to add advertising to your feed. So far I have personally made $24.67 using FeedBurner advertising. It might not seem like much but it is $24 more dollars than I had to begin with. As your feed subscribers goes up you can earn even more. Used along with other website monitazation methods you can get closer to becoming a professional blogger that earns a living online.

FeedBurner can help you take your feeds to the next level. If you are not currently using FeedBurner to deliver your feeds I highly recommend looking into it. Goto FeedBurner.com for more information.

Thank all the feed subscribers here at Passionate America.

I want to hear from you! Are you a feed subscriber that has a suggestion you would like me to consider to make your experience better? Do you have any tips you would like to share to help others increase their feed subscribers? Email me or leave a comment and I’ll select the best tips and link to your site.