I’ve been looking a lot at RSS feeds lately. How to use them, how to promote them, and how to make my numbers grow. I know from my own experience that I forget about sites, even ones that I enjoy, and I’ve begun to use readers and find out what a great tool RSS really is.

So I want my own readers to be able to take advantage of this and be able to find me again if they’ve enjoyed something they’ve read. (This “they” is YOU, by the way.)

When I first started out I got the message, “Make your feed easy to find.” Check. I’ve put it at the top of my blogs.

But now I want to do even more!

First, I noticed that other people had nifty little footers at the bottom of their feeds. Some with adverts and some with messages that didn’t appear on their sites, so I did some research.

Wordpress Plugins:

• Feed Footer Plugin
• Better Feed Plugin
• PostPost
• Sig2Feed

But none did exactly what I was seeing, so I keep looking, and guess what? It’s a standard feature you can get for free on Feedburner. (Yes, I feel dumb.)

Seen these? Well all you have to do to have them on your own feed is click a few buttons! It’s incredibly easy if you’re already using Feedburner. Log in to your Feedburner account and click “Optimize”.

Then Click “Feed Flare” on the left column.

Then simply go down the list and tick which options you wish to show up on your feed in the Footer.

Save. And it’s done!

This will increase the chances that your RSS readers will interact with your blog!

Other good articles on RSS feeds:

• Increase RSS Subscriptions 
• John Chow’s RSS Competition.   (I include this as I think it’s a great idea and inspiring to think of creative ways to raise reader’s awareness of your feed!)

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