If you ask most newbie bloggers what’s the most challenging thing to them, it’s how to increase subscribers to their blogs. Anyone that knows what blogging means must know the importance of having blog subscribers. The issue for many bloggers is how to make people subscribe to their mailing list.
Even established bloggers find it tough most times.
You might even have tried all of what you’ve heard and read from other bloggers on how to increase blog subscribers but nothing have worked, then you are even on the verge of giving up on increasing your subscriber base. These days, we are no longer in the era when good blog design and traffic used to help bloggers to gain new blog subscribers, but there’s been a lot more to it.
My article will be drawing insights on how you can increase your blog subscribers base in less than three months.
#1 Problem: Traffic
It’s undeniable, if you don’t have traffic flowing in on your blog, you won’t get blog subscribers. But this time, it’s not just any traffic, but traffic that reckons with your blog. Take for instance your blog talks about the latest Smartphones; if the readers coming to your blog are not interested in Smartphones, then it’s not useful for them to subscribe to your blog. This is why it is important for you to get traffic that resonates with your blog.
How to Solve this Problem
Solving your traffic problem would go a long way to increase the number of people that subscribe to your blog every day. To increase the number of resonant traffic you get to your blog, you should try the tips listed below:
- Run guest posts on relevant blogs and websites
- Target relevant keywords for Search Traffic
- Model your blog posts to resonate with your blog
#2 Problem: Conviction
The second thing that hinders people from subscribing to your blog is the lack of conviction to do so. Before anyone will surrender his/her email address to you, they will ask themselves why they must do so. Erase any thing that gives them doubts to subscribe to your blog.
Give people a reason or course to willingly give up their email and you’ll see how your blog subscribers base will dramatically increase.
How to Solve This Problem
Looking for a way to give people reason or course to subscribe to your mailing list will help you to achieve a milestone success. Since traffic, high quality articles and a good blog design alone is not enough to help you gain a lot of subscribers to your blog, applying the tips listed below will help you complement your efforts.
Other methods that you can implement to increase blog subscribers.
Run a Blog Event (Contests, Free Membership site offers etc.)
Running an event on your blog would be a powerful way to give people reason to subscribe to your email list. Of course this won’t happen automatically, but you will make them sign up to your email list before they are eligible to participate in the event. And you’ll notice, people will be more than willing to subscribe to your email list if your event is of great benefit to them, which is why making the event even extremely useful to bloggers more important.
Launch a Product
Another great way to make people willingly surrender their email address for you is to launch a product. People appreciate new things and can do anything to get exciting offers. Use your new product as a bait to capture people’s email address and your turn up will be worth it.
Mind you, you might need to collaborate with other bloggers to make this more effective and get more blog subscribers.
Conclusion
With the tips you’ve seen in this blog post, if you can apply them religiously you will be rewarded with a surprising increase in your blog subscribers list.
Author Bio : This is a guest post from James Jorner who writes for www.speedyloan.com. This site has link on how to get quick loans.
Nice post Arbaz, It is for sure if the traffic which we’re getting on our blog aren’t interested in topic of your blog than how should we expect them to subscribe :O
Good post BTW.
Yeah Agree,
Conversion is really too tough for building email list.
For Conversion there is no any set rules we have to test each and every way like Split Testing.
Thanks James for sharing this Simple Tips With Us.
Cheers.
Getting e-mail subscriber is really a tough work….Adding single subscriber into your list require effort from you.
Best way is to compel them to join your e-mail subscription by providing lots of quality article.
Great post. I personally believe giving freebies while subscribing is an awesome way to increase blog subscribers. It was a nice post an much needed too, as I announced my newsletter on June 16th. So I can try some of these ways on it. Keep up the good work
well if every blog need lot of subscribers of getting success, all the above mentioned points are very helpful,.. thanks for sharing.
Very useful post Arbaz, contest are one of the best ways to increase our subscribers base. From personal experience I can tell that people appreciate the free stuff and will always be willing to subscribe after contest.
thanks for sharing
Really Amazing and use full post… The best idea is contest option because i have seen many blogs are doing it and they are getting bulk of member’s just via that… thank for sharing this post
some great tips ! i will definitely use them for my new blog….