Comments on: FeedBurner offer Pro Features to Everyone

By: Gopal Aggarwal

Gopal Aggarwal — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:42:21 +0000

hi…

maybe Google wants that

but, what do you think….it is good for me as a consumer, but what about competing companies….

I mean if Microsoft tried to bundle in things with their operating system, wouldn’t (sooner or later) providing it for free (JUST because you can afford) come under same…

I am afraid that Google just might not inhibit innovations by startups, or maybe it could be the other way round?

regards,
Gopal,
India

By: John Hood

John Hood — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:12:34 +0000

Fantastic news and I can’t wait to see where FB+Google takes us next.

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:50:54 +0000

Thanks for the info Darren!

It’s good that Google, as usual, provide great service for free!!

By: SmallFuel Marketing

SmallFuel Marketing — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:10:48 +0000

This is indeed excellent news. We’ve been paying for both pro features for a few months now; I’ve found Total Stats extremely useful in determining what my readers do and don’t like.

MyBrand is almost a necessity in my mind, I think it confuses everything to send people to a feedburner URL (though many bloggers do use it very successfully, like Darren)

Also, I really hope they integrate these stats with Google Analytics.

By: Sushith Mundayadan of Tips To Run A Money Making Website Or Blog

Sushith Mundayadan of Tips To Run A Money Making Website Or Blog — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:01:29 +0000

Feedburner has been acquired by the Big G so it obvious why these features are now available for free.This is one of the reasons why people are made to love Google.Excellent features and all available at no cost.thats what makes Google popular and kills the competition against them.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:48:05 +0000

Great news! I’m a big fan of stats ;)

By: Dao

Dao — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:26:40 +0000

Haha, did you check out MD’s site? That’s high praise Darren, high praise indeed. You should be proud for helping such a fellow.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:27:25 +0000

m.d. I’m sure Darren will be ever-so-thrilled that you’re making such, uh, productive use of his suggestions.

Regarding the main point of this post, I too went over to Feedburner, clicked on the “pro” options and went “huh? Is that all there is?” Makes me glad I never bothered to pay for it, and it certainly isn’t going to change anything about the way I blog.

And while I’m commenting, has anybody else noted the offer that the pinging service pingoat has up right now? They claim they are about to unveil something that can help drive traffic to blogs. I have no idea whether it’s bogus or legit, but some readers of this blog might be interested.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:25:55 +0000

This is great. Thanks for the information, Darren. I appreciate it.

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By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:27:30 +0000

It’ll be interesting to see how Google plans to integrate Feedburner into Google Analytics (they’d be stupid not to) and AdSense.

By: Grace

Grace — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:42:06 +0000

Now if only Google starts offering free Adword campaigns for contests…

By: HH

HH — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:38:27 +0000

Did anyone pay for that?

By: HH

HH — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:37:52 +0000

Did anyone paid for that?

By: Online Tips

Online Tips — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:41:32 +0000

I just posted about that too! The only feature I’m expecting to like is MyBrand. The other one, FeedBurner Stats, it’s just another set of numbers and statistics.

By: Bes

Bes — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:37:32 +0000

That is indeed good news. So Google is making available such tools for free to drive the market more towards itself, which is at this moment good for consumers like us. So, if I understand this correctly, the Total Stats Pro has one more feature that the standard package didn’t have, which is tracking how many people click on individual feed links? I see that this is the case for my account, but just wanted to make sure if these were the only things separating the standard package from the Pro package.

The MyBrand option requires e-mailing instead of online activation, which I guess should be ok for now, given the nature and priority of the service. Sending people off to a feedburner url did confuse a lot of my readers, and having all current feeds forwarded from our servers to other servers can get messy after a while if one wants to track all the clicks [like what urls are people clicking or typing in to access feeds].

By: Cadu de Castro Alves

Cadu de Castro Alves — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:34:58 +0000

Very nice! Thanks Google!!!

By: Katie Konrath

Katie Konrath — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:00:08 +0000

What marvelous news! Now us newer bloggers who feel like we could justify paying for Feedburner Pro will have access to more of the features. I’m particularly looking forward to being able to brand my feed to my domain name!