The first question I want to make clear before writing the post is why you need to double the number of subscriber of your blog. When I started blogging, I did not know why a new subscriber is important to a blog or website. As a blog owner you should know how important a new subscriber is to your blog. A new subscriber is a lifetime reader of your blog because you will send the subscriber your newsletter time to time and they will read your blog posts from the newsletters. If you are in affiliate marketing, a new subscriber is a probable new customer to your blog. So, by this time you have already know how important a new subscriber is to your blog. You need to get as many subscriber as you can through your blog and you will have to make the email list of your subscriber as big as you can. More subscribers means more traffic to your blog, more traffic means more affiliate sales and more Google Adsense earning.
If you are writing awesome, helpful and SEO friendly articles in your blog, you will get good number of subscribers as the readers want to get notified about the helpful and interesting posts of your website or blog. But you also need to give your readers quick and easy option to subscribe your blog which can double the number of subscriber of your blog. If they need to search for the “Subscribe” tab or option, they will get irritated and you may loose a probable reader or customer of your blog. So, you will have to do some extra tips to convert a reader to a subscriber or returning visitor of your blog.
How I Have Doubled the Number of Subscriber of My WordPress Blog:
As soon as I understood the value of subscriber, I started to search for different tricks about how to increase the number of subscriber to my blog. I tried to check the style of different successful blogs on the web. What I have found, most of the blogs are using some kind of WordPress plugin to get their subscribers. So, I was also looking for a suitable plugin which can attract more subscribers to my blog. After searching for a while, I was able to find a nice WordPress plugin to grab subscribers for my blog. The name of the plugin is SumoMe. Using SumoMe I was able to double the number of subscriber of my WordPress blog. You can get the plugin from WordPress. Search with the name SumoMe and you will get the WordPress plugin. This is why I use WordPress as a blogging platform. You can read my post WordPress Vs Blogger, which Gives the Best Blogging Experience?. Another plugin decreased the bounce rate of my blog significantly which is a popular post plugin. To install the popular post plugin and download it you can read the article An Awesome Popular Post Plugin for Your WordPress Blog.
If you are a serious blogger and using free blogspot platform, it is really hard customize your blogger blog. Also there are no plugins for blogger blogs. So, change your mind, start blogging with WordPress. No worries, you will be able to transfer all your blog posts to the new blog. Before starting your own blog in WordPress, you need a website hosting provider. I use HostGator shared hosting for your blog and there are a lot of valid reasons to choose this hosting company. You can read my blog Why I am Using Hostgator as Hosting Company for the Last 4 Years.
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How to Set Up SumoMe in Your WordPress Blog to Double the Number of Subscriber:
- After getting the plugin in WordPress plugin directory, please click on “Install” and the plugin will get installed in your WordPress blog.
- Now after installation, you will get a blue tab on the top right hand side corner of your blog. Click on it and the below window will pop up:
3. Now, after submitting all the information, you will find the below three tabs which are Notifications, Settings and SumoMe Store.
4. If you click on Sumo Store, you will get the below pop up window from where you can choose the tool that you will use to get subscribers in your blog.
From the above screen, you can see the List Builder tool, Scrool Box and Smart Bar. You will have to install and open these tools to customize the design as per your requirement. From these tools, I use the List Builder tool and the Smart Bar tool which is helping me to double the number of subscriber. List builder tool is really smart to grab attention of the visitor of the website. On the other hand the Smart Bar tool always stays on the top of the screen when a visitors visits the website.
SumoMe Smart Bar and List Builder Tool
5. Now, after installing the two tools, to customize the List Builder tool or Smart Bar, you will have to click on it and then you will have to go to the design tab. If you want to use the free version, only the default template is free for you. But the free one is also good enough to attract visitors.
In the design tab, you can customize the heading, insert the description of the list builder, can choose the size and choose the color of the email collector box.
After customization save it and you can also check for preview. So, now you are done with all the steps and you can check the results and I believe within few days you will find the number of subscribers in your blog will become double or triple. So, now you know how to double the number of subscriber of your blog. Once a new subscriber subscribe to your blog, you can get a notification in your WordPress dashboard which is really good to track the subscribers.
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