Increase RSS Feedburner Subscriptions Using Firefox Live BookMarking

Tip: Improve RSS Feedburner Subscriptions

With Blog Me Famous only in it’s infancy, like any other blogger i check my stats daily and more often than not several times within the day. What i noticed was that i was getting alot of clicks and pageviews on my feedburner subscription page (My blog feeds) but a certain number of them where viewing but not subscribing in a reader.

What if those users did not use a rss feed reader?

Within the first couple of days after Blog Me Famous’s launch i setup my blog RSS feeds to go through feedburner so i could track every person that subscribed not only in a reader but also via FireFox’s Live Bookmarking feature. However checking my stats i noticed that a very small number had subscribed using the Bookmarking feature that was until i introduced a new button, simple but proving extremely effective.

Taking a look at my feedburner page you can see;

Here a user is presented by a feeder landing page with various RSS feed readers. To use the Firefox Bookmarking Service a user has to choose ‘View Feed XML’ and then click subscribe, coming to this page as a new webuser or not knowing how to subscribe via Firefox you would immediately close the page.

To combat this, on the right side of my blog i produced a text line named, ‘Subscribe in firefox bookmarks‘

Since introducing this direct text link to my XML feed i’ve increased my subscription numbers through Firefox Live Bookmarking. I’m not going to reveal numbers but visitors numbers through firefox are improving everyday.  So why not try it out and report back the results.

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