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I recently did a guest post on a site that has around 22k RSS subscribers. I received over 250 visitors as a result of a link to my blog in the “Author Bio” section. (I still get daily visitors of 10 to 20 from this blog).

I use Google Analytics to track my site and after about 100 visitors I received only 13 subscribers. The blog is a highly targeted site of what I write about.

I thought that there was something wrong with my blog and wanted to tweak and test the home page of my blog.

I immediately deleted all the links in the right section of my blog, except the opt-in form. Below the opt-in form, I listed few samples of my newsletter issues.

Surprise!

For the next 150 visitors I got 68 subscribers, in just one day.

I just submitted few guests posts in other blogs too. In the “Author Bio” section, I directly linked to my dedicated squeeze page and not to my blog. Let us see how this works. I will keep you posted on it.

Another tip to increase your subscribers:

Use “Feedvertising plugin” for WordPress.

Find a blogger who publishes content similar to yours. Work out on a deal with him where you both promote each other in your RSS feeds, using Feedvertising. Feedvertising allows you to create up to six rotating links, the smaller blog would promote the other blog continuously, while the larger blog would reserve one slot for the smaller blog.