Add a large RSS button to your site
Written by Ellie on Sep 7th, 2007 | Filed under: Better Blogger
Tags: 101 Steps, Better Blogger, RSS, WordPress
Tags: 101 Steps, Better Blogger, RSS, WordPress
This is Step #15 in the 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger.
Add a large RSS subscription button to your site.
“Large” RSS subscription buttons are kind of annoying to me. On some blogs, they fit in and seem to flow well with the theme, but thepinkc’s current theme doesn’t really lend itself to a large 125px by 125px RSS button! I do have a 28px by 28px button in the sidebar, as well as smaller buttons in the sidebar and the footer and at the bottom of every post.
Is there any research that really proves that a “large” RSS subscription button increases the number of subscribers? I think if people really like your content, they’ll subscribe, no matter how large your button is!
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- 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger
- Use WordPress!: Step #1
- Sign up for Feedburner: Step #2
- Post at least once a day: Step #3
- Optimize your blog for SEO: Step #4
- Have an “About Me” page: Step #5
- 101 Steps: #6-8
- Blog and Ping - Step #9 in 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger
- Submit your blog to RSS and blog directories: Step #10
- Trackbacks are important - Step #11
- Get involved in the blogosphere - Step #12
- Give your blog its own unique voice - Step #13
- Create unique, quality content - Step #14
- Add a large RSS button to your site
- Place an RSS feed link at the bottom of every post
- Install the MyBlogLog Widget
- Social Bookmarking - Step #18
- Better Blogger - Steps 19-31
- Create a custom blog design
- Add photos to each of your posts
- Use tagging in WordPress
- Tips to get more out of your WordPress blog
- Turn your blog posts into podcasts!
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- Keep Working at Becoming a Better Blogger!
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- 19 Final Tips to Becoming a Better Blogger
Yesterday I spent a few hours blog hopping and subscribing to different ones. The amount of blogs I saw WITHOUT a RSS button or link, was disturbing. I can’t understand why someone wouldn’t have a link somewhere for their feeds. I’d rather have a large button than none at all. I personally prefer the 28px x 28px one. It’s seems a good size to attract visitors to subscribe without overtaking your sidebar.
That’s amazing, Tina! I am a lazy blogger, so I just click on the RSS button in the Firefox address bar, instead of clicking on the link.
I’m amazed at the # of people who use Feedburner. I like having separate RSS for every category, so Feedburner would be a little more complicated to run.
Do you use Google Reader? I’m in the process of switching back to Bloglines. The updates to Google Reader have it running really slow.
Ellie, please teach me how to get an RSS on a single category? Me no can find on the net
Try this snippet of code. I found it on the WordPress Codex, but it took a while
< ?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&style=list&show_count=0&feed=RSS&hierarchical=0&title_li='); ?>Hi Ellie
That’s a nifty code
Had to add a / before the word feed to get the real feed, now trying it out in Mybloglog (I guess they have a cache)
Thanks! That’s why you are Geek Girl!!!!