7. May 2009 10:49
As blogs become moer and more popular it's important to try and obtain as many subscribers as possible. Sure your BlogEngine.NET blog already has a subscribe link somewhere on the page, but viewers are often becoming blind to the RSS symbol. Or, they stumble across your blog, skip past the subscribe link (because why would they subscribe before they know they like your blog or not) read the post and potentially leave. The end of the post is a great place to put an RSS subscribe link because the reader finishes the post and thinks "hmm, what next". Why not give them something to click (other then an advert).
WordPress has a nice plugin which allows you to add a RSS reminder link to the bottom of each post. A way of telling the user - "Hey, you liked reading this post so why not go ahead and subscribe?" So why shouldn't BlogEngine.NET? So here it is, your free RSS Reminder control. To use it:
- Download the RssReminder.zip at the end of this post,
- unzip the RssReminder.cs file and add it to your blogs App_Code\Controls directory.
- Decide where you want the control to be rendered and place the followingline...
<blog:RssReminder runat="server" />
I have chosen to put mine in the postview.ascx file that is in my theme directory just above the rating control. Hope you like it, feel free to edit it as you please.
RssReminder.zip (594.00 bytes)