Getting Subscribers is a very hard job when compared to getting visitors, because by basic search engine optimization + original content and some tweaks you can always attract visitors from the search engines to your web blogs, but its to get them converted and make them subscribe to your blog in order to read your daily updates.
Here are some tips in order to make sure your subscribers just increase on a daily basis and not decrease :
1. Signup with Feedburner and Setup your Feed :
Its always important to signup with a better media distribution service rather than just continuing with the normal wordpress blog’s feed. The advantages of feedburner is that you get hell lot of features which is feed tracking, wordpress blogs pinging, optimizing your feed with Link Splicer, Photo Splicer, Summary Burner, Title/Description Burner etc. Publicize Your Feed with Buzz Boost, Email Subscription using which your visitors can enter their email in a submit box and subscribe to your blog for daily updates, Feed Count service which shows a small image with the number of readers of your blog, Chicklet Chooser etc.
2. Subscribe to your Own feed with the maximum Options :
This is very important point because subscribing to your feed may help you out in finding how the feeds look and how your visitors can view your feeds. Try out with email subscription, feed readers like Google, IE & FF because these are the ones which are most subscribed to.
3. Track your Feed Stats :
You need to keep checking your feed’s subscribers count in the beginning to make sure you are always finding a upward trend and in case you find the trend moving down, check out the reasons for the same. Its sometimes not only your content but the design, broken links, broken pages can also lead to decreasing readership. This regular tracking can keep you updated.
4. Add Email Subscription Box at Right Place :
The best place to add a email subscription box is the left hand top section because thats the location where most visitors start browsing your website and if they like the article they would move back to the email subscription box and subscribe with their email.
Subscribers dont signup easily to your blog, you need to make sure you have got great content and regular updations in order to increase your subscribers base.

May 16th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Thanks for a great article
i will not try on mine which have only few subscribers.
May 17th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
I loved the last tips,really handy.I will tell my friend to help me in that… (i think my design is complicated)