You’ve no doubt seen a list of buttons similar to the above at many blog sites. They provide the reader a quick way to subscribe to their feed reader of choice. Visually they provide quick identification to the reader they are familiar with, their eye is trained to look for such buttons. And one a reader has subscribed to your feed, you’ve got yourself a regular reader who you will be staying in front of and not getting forgotten about.

There is actually a WordPress plugin called Subscribe Me that automatically adds several of these buttons to your site. I just don’t personally care for the plugin, I like having more control of how they look and are set up, but it may be a quick and easy way for some of you that just want to get some subscribe buttons in the sidebar quickly.

But now let’s talk about setting them up manually and making them look nicer…

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