Comments on: Aweber Start Reporting Stats to Feedburner

By: James Spinosa

James Spinosa — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:38:02 +0000

My blog is still in the process of growing and starting up but I feel that after a month it has been long enough for me to start doing this myself. I’ll give it a try and mention how it goes :)

By: Tony Murphy

Tony Murphy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:01:17 +0000

Hi,

I decided to add email subscriptions to my blog this week. I looked at bothe feedbliotz and aweber and choose aweber. Both offer a good set of functionality plus subscriber numbers but the number 1 reason I went for aweber is that the feedblitz site was down most of the time on the day I wanted to use it. Then when it came back it was so slow which rendered it unusable. Call me fickle or what…..

cheers
Tony

By: Nicole of JustAskNicole.com

Nicole of JustAskNicole.com — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:52:11 +0000

Thanks for all of great posts about RSS to email!

Sounds like I’ll have to give AWeber a try. I think they have all of the features I’m looking for. Currently I’m using FeedBurner for blog updates and GetResponse for other email marketing – and I’m not crazy about either!

Ideally, I want an email marketing service that also offers blog updates that can be scheduled and customized. I don’t mind paying for a service, but I only want to pay for what I want, need and like. And I’d much rather have only 1 service that fits all of my email marketing needs. So I’m going to give AWeber a try ASAP!

By: Reddy

Reddy — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:40:46 +0000

@loren nason
You can do so by using Feebblitz’s service.

By: Slade | Spiritual Blogging

Slade | Spiritual Blogging — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:06:50 +0000

I was under the impression (from a past investigation of Aweber a few months ago) that Aweber recommends you NOT use their RSS Broadcast with Feedburner feeds…

Is anyone using Feedburner “burned” feeds with Aweber RSS Broadcast that can speak to that?

By: Justin Premick, AWeber.com

Justin Premick, AWeber.com — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:08:22 +0000

Thanks all for letting us know what you think of the integration!

Mike,

It’s possible to set up multiple groups of subscribers/schedules (example: people who want daily emails vs. weekly ones) and allow people to choose a group when signing up. Just requires a couple extra steps to set up.

Email me at justinpremick [at] aweber.com if you want more details.

Loren,

With AWeber you can set the “from” line on your emails (both name and email address) to be yourself, your blog or whatever you feel is appropriate for your subscribers.

Antoine,

If you send your blog newsletter through AWeber using our Blog Broadcast tool, the # of email subscribers you have for that blog will be reported to FeedBurner, and they’ll then add that to your RSS subscriber totals – so that the number displayed on your chicklet aggregates both RSS and email subscribers.

In your FeedBurner stats you’ll be able to see what proportion of your subscribers are email ones vs. other sources (Google Reader, Bloglines, Newsgator, etc).

Hope this helps!

By: Antoine Khater

Antoine Khater — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:37:30 +0000

I have a question if possible !
Do you mean that the number of email subscribers will actually add up to the number of RSS subscribers in feedburner widget ?

I have recently had a crash that caused my blog to go down for 3 days and my rss feedcount went down to 1 reader although I do have about 200 email subscribers !

Thanks

By: Shannon Lilly

Shannon Lilly — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:28:50 +0000

My blog has no where near the readers yours has Darren, but this sounds like a great tool that I should get my hands on before its to late and they skyrocket the price.

I will probablly check it out myself as well and thank you for letting us all know about it!

By: ViralKing

ViralKing — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:26:02 +0000

That is really awesome news for Internet Marketers like myself that use Aweber daily to build lists. Do you know, does the blog optin allow you to send them broadcasts too?

This would then be a huge addition to my new blog that I’m just kicking off

By: Neil Duckett

Neil Duckett — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:47:11 +0000

Setting the schedule is an important piece of functionality.

By: Blog opinion

Blog opinion — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:17:09 +0000

I have been using feedburner. Though I havn’t used aweber, I liked the concept that a reader can set the schedule for getting blog post delivered.

By: Darren Alff - Bicycle Touring Pro

Darren Alff - Bicycle Touring Pro — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:50:34 +0000

I’ve been using Aweber for a number of months now and I too find it very useful to be able to send out your broadcasts at a specific time of day. Like Darren mentioned, I usually send out the broadcasts early in the morning so that my readers have my email in their inbox first thing in the morning. This really makes my website “jump” and it’s always fun to view the stats as more and more visitors come back to my website.

By: BizGiftGuru

BizGiftGuru — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:42:31 +0000

I have Aweber set up for my blog and still figuring out how to get the most out of it. The fact they are now reporting to feedburner is good news indeed …

By: Mike King

Mike King — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:12:29 +0000

The scheduling would be more useful if it can be setup by the subscriber, not by me as the publisher. Is that a possibility with any subscription services on email?

To me, this would be far more useful to my readers than me picking when to get it. I’d even consider subscribing some of my blogs on email instead of RSS if this was available.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:47:39 +0000

Great info on Aweber, been thinking about trying them out.

By: loren nason

loren nason — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:33:11 +0000

Darren, I use the feedburner email for some of my subscribers and my main complaint is that when the email comes in it does NOT have my name as the FROM email instead has the Blog Name.

Some people may like this but this creates a lot of confusion to some subscribers and they fail to see/notice the email since it does not come from me.

So the question is: If I use Aweber can this problem i have be fixed to where the email appears to come from ME?

Thanks

By: Sly from Slyvisions.com

Sly from Slyvisions.com — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:32:01 +0000

I’ve always wanted to use AWeber for my mailing list, and now I think is the perfect time to try them out.

The only fault I see in this is that webmasters will be able to “game” their RSS numbers. There are those who actually have more people in their mailing list than they do RSS subscribers. Although it might be a good way to boost RSS numbers, it’s really just convincing people to pay extra for it by using AWeber’s service.

By: Cheapest Man

Cheapest Man — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:08:27 +0000

That says a lot to me when a company listens to people’s suggestions/complaints and acts upon them. I’ve heard of aweber before but was reluctant to try them because of the above mentioned complaints. But, I will give them a shot and see how it goes.

I love the fact I can schedule my feeds. So often I post at weird times. I’d love to have some control over when my readers see the feeds. I really think one day a week would be nice, say Thursdays all my posts get fed.