One of the latest goals I’ve set to myself is to increase my RSS readers or subscribers.
Until now I’ve neglected this part. But this is going to change.
In the next few weeks I’m trying to get myself a decent RSS reader base.

This will be done in a few steps, that I’ll explain here in a series of posts in time.

The first step I already did by implementing a new design.
At the right top of this page you can see the RSS image to subscribe to my Full Feed RSS with an RSS reader or by email.

The next step I’m going to try out is subscribe myself to RSSHugger, which is very easy. Fill in your name, email, pass and that’s it.
After this you need to login for the first time and you’ll be redirected to your RSS panel.
In this RSS panel you can add your blog, specify in which category it belongs, give a description what your blog stands for, and off course fill in the RSS feed itself.
In the profile tab you can also enter your AIM, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo IM and Googletalk id so you can let others connect to you in other ways then only your site or RSS.
And that’s practically all that needs to be done.

But why subscribe yourself to RSSHugger?

Well, they have an interesting concept that can hit big in the next few months.
They want to bring bloggers and readers together for the simple reason that bloggers need readers and readers need something where they can get information.
And to prove they’re serious, they’ve set themselves a goal. In one year they want 50.000 blogs to signup to their service for a $10 joining fee.
But they felt they forgot about the blogs that can’t afford or don’t want to pay $10. So they changed the number to 250.000! You can now sign up with them for free, but they want you to create a post about them, that’s all.
At first this seems like a really unrealistic number, but if you compare to the actual blogs that are currently registered (112 million) and the 175.000 new starting blogs each day, it’s actually not that much.
But I’ll take my hat off for them if they reach 250K sign-ups.

What’s in it for you if you sign up?

• You’ll raise awareness
• Get new visitors
• Share traffic with the community
• Be part of a buzz marketing campaign
• Helps your SEO with deep-links to your posts
• And new RSS subscribers

To get some competition between the RSSHugger members they created a Top 100 list.
Here they’ll display the RSS feeds of the blogs that had the most people view their RSSHugger page.
And to keep the ‘competition’ open to everyone, it resets every month.
This way it isn’t always John Chow who wins. He’s ranked on the 8th spot when I created this post.

By creating this post I’ve concluded step 2 and that was subscribing to RSSHugger.
Now only wait and see if they deliver what they promise.

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