Friday Traffic Report Hits 30,000 Subscribers!
September 16, 2008
I want to say, from the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who subscribes to the Friday Traffic Report!
I know you have choices when you surf, so I appreciate you flying with me!
I’d really love to ask you 2 questions:
1. Have you used a tip, tactic, or piece of advice from FTR that has paid off for you? If so, what and how?
2. What’s your most burning question about getting website traffic, blogging, social marketing, SEO or link building?
I appreciate all the subscribers, and now I have to get more of you talking! Maybe those of you who’ve never commented on FTR before can use this as an excuse to de-lurk yourself and get social!
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What to do When Your RSS Subscribers Disappear in FeedBurner
August 27, 2008
If you’ve ever noticed a massive drop in your RSS subscribers in FeedBurner, you know what it feels like to “lose” something.
Today my subscriber count, according to FeedBurner, reads around 7000. It is normally in the low 20,000’s. Everyone experiences this with FeedBurner from me to TechCrunch and in between.
Nothing has really been lost, so there’s no need to panic. But for a day you are going to have to look at that RSS subscriber count (along with all your visitors) until FeedBurner updates again within 24 hours.
What Happens When Your Subscriber Count in FeedBurner Drops Like That?
FeedBurner checks all the feed readers it tracks each day, like Google Reader, Bloglines, and BlogRovr. When one of them is unresponsive at the exact moment FeedBurner is checking your subscriber count through any particular service, it moves on and the count doesn’t happen.
I have about 15,000 subscribers from BlogRovr, so my feeling today is that FeedBurner checked in and didn’t get a fast enough reaction from BlogRovr to make the count. So my day is spent with a FeedBurner chicklet (button) that displays a much lower subscriber count than actual.
What You Can Do About It
Nothing. Enjoy your day. Make some great posts. And wake up tomorrow to a new RSS subscriber count, usually, with the number you expect. This stuff happens in the RSS world. Most bloggers know about it and I’ve seen A-Listers can “lose” 100,000-200,000 RSS subscribers at a time.
They’ll come back. In the meantime check out your stats in FeedBurner. A cool thing is how they’ll show a lower subscriber count but your “hits” that day could be way out of whack above your subscriber numbers. That’s because all your subscribers are still subscribed and checking out your feed, regardless of what FeedBurner is saying about your subscriber count.
Tags: feed readers, feedburner subscribers, rss subscribers, subscribers disappearedWebside Chat with Michel Fortin
August 1, 2008
Michel Fortin on how he blogs, how he handles subscribers, gets subscribers, syndicated content to pull in visitors and rank in the engines, and lots of other great tips on being an authority blogger. You don’t want to miss the tips Michel shares in this podcast!
How to get 2000 RSS Subscribers in 3 Months
January 29, 2008
The Tony Robbins Part…
People with no experience with blogging or building authority are doing incredible things in short periods of time with their blogs. You can too if your heart is in it. The thing that motivates most people is their goals. If you don’t have specific goals and realistic deadlines that push you to achieve greatness, your campaign is dead from the start.
Hint: “I want to make money” is not a goal.
A-List Bloggers, Current and Future, All Share the Same Traits
What I’ve noticed from every successful blog owner I’ve ever reviewed or consulted with is that they are motivated to learn and apply what they learn diligently. They don’t cheat or look for the easy way out (there isn’t one) and they will stop at nothing to see their goals realized.
1. They get up early and work before they go to their “real jobs.”
2. They come home and work into the night, often losing sleep to meet their deadlines.
3. They think deeply about content and their visitors’ needs.
4. They study their market and stay up to date on the relevant hot topics and capitalize on them to generate great, unique content.
5. They network heavily. From social marketing to doing “favors” for bloggers who are higher up on the food chain in order to gain favor with them. (Links being one big favor!)
6. They are thought leaders. Not just followers. They start conversations in addition to participating in conversations started by others.
7. They will do anything to meet a self-imposed deadline for content development, marketing goals and traffic benchmarks.
8. They are motivated by the lure of being financially independent to such a degree that there is almost nothing they wouldn’t sacrifice in the short term to see their long term success. (Most share sleep as the biggest sacrifice!)
9. They don’t expect anything to be handed to them. They earn everything they get as a result of hard work, creativity, and being a thought leader in their niches.
10. They never cheat or look for the easy way out and they don’t believe sales pitches that make schemes and scams sound like the mythical “instant reward” syndrome most new bloggers fall for.
11. Their content is superior, deep, imaginative, and always has a “hook” that almost forces new readers to subscribe to their blog to see what’s next.
12. They generate a hunger in their readership for the value they become known for producing in each and every post.
13. Their readership has a high return ratio. Example: This blog has a 37% return visitor ratio.
If you adopt these traits you will see significant progress in your blog’s growth, rankings, and links. It’s almost guaranteed.
Here’s A Case Study From A New Blogger Who Acquired 2000+ RSS Subscribers in 3 Months
Follow this guide laid out by Tina Su who wrote an excellent piece for ProBlogger recently. You can mirror her system to gain a lot of readers in a very short time.
Related: Social Marketing Advice You Really REALLY Need!
If you are working on a social marketing campaign for your site (you’d BETTER be) then a related story from Search Engine Land is essential reading today: “15 Fundamental Truths About Social Media Marketing“
