Strategies for Increasing RSS Readers

Since entering the RSS competition at Daily Blog Tips, I have been trying a few strategies to get more subscribers to my Economics Blog. This is what I have been doing so far:

Blog Carnival.

I have set up a Carnival of the Economists, encouraging people to submit articles on economics. The hope is that people up submit to carnivals will be interested in subscribing. I think it is also important to make the most of a blog carnival, e.g. encouraging submitters to subscribe.

Posting

Frequent posting, once or twice a day. I could post more, but, I doubt this would help. There is always a danger of putting people off through overposting.

Commenting on Top Blogs.

I found a list of the top 100 economic blogs. I went through the blogs, and subscribed to those who allow comments with links to your homepage. I have been leaving thoughtful comments, in the hope some will click through and subscribe. The traffic from this has been low, but, hopefully it is good quality traffic.

Things Which would be good to Do

• Write Guest Posts on Popular Blogs. Unfortunately, most of the top economic blogs aren’t interested in accepting guest posts; it’s different to the self improvement and blogging niche.
• Offer A free economic e book to subscribers. I could offer my revision guide to subscribers, but, unfortunately the academic term has ended so not many people are interested at the moment.
• Contacting other economic Bloggers

See also: 8 Effective ways to increase RSS subscribers