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This simple tip for your Wordpress blog comes from Everton over at Connected Internet. This small change has helped him go from 5 to 200+ subscribers to his comment feed! In fact he says that the number of subscribers jumped to 80 overnight!

What he did was add the comments feed to the list of feeds that are displayed when a user clicks on the RSS link in their browser.

And it is a simple change to make. All you have to do to is find the following line in your header.php file:

<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?> RSS Feed” href=”<?php bloginfo(’rss2_url’); ?>” />

Then add the following code below it:

<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?> RSS Comments Feed” href=”<?php bloginfo(’comments_rss2_url’); ?>” />

That’s it! Your comments feed will now be listed with your main feed making it easy for your visitors to subscribe.

I just made the change here at PureBlogging.com and look forward to seeing if there is an increase in the numbers of subscribers. Why don’t you try it on your blog and let me know if it works for you.