Archive for RSS
Written on July 3rd, 2009 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
Feedburner Add Customizable Subject Lines to Email Subscriptions
One month ago I wrote an open letter to Google/Feedburner suggesting that it might be time to add some more features to Feedburner - particularly the ability to customize subject lines of those subscribing to a feed via RSS.
It seems that they’ve been hard at work on that very feature.
Today I logged into my Feedburner [...]
Written on June 19th, 2009 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse
Dear Google: Please Take Feedburner to the Next Level
Dear Google - I have a suggestion that I submit to you for your consideration.
It pertains to your excellent Feedburner service (particularly the email subscription element of it) which so many hundreds of thousands of bloggers (I’m taking a stab in the dark on that number, it could well be more) use to deliver [...]
Written on May 27th, 2009 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse
9 Tips to Help You Find More RSS Subscribers for Your Blog
Finding RSS Subscribers is something that many bloggers spend a lot of time thinking about - so in this video I thought I’d put together a few thoughts on how to grow your subscriber numbers.
See the full sized version of this video here at YouTube.
PS: in the post I mentioned some links that might help [...]
Written on January 15th, 2009 at 07:01 am by Darren Rowse
AdSense for Feeds Ads Showing in Feedburner Email Updates
Today I was chatting with someone that subscribes to ProBlogger via email through the Feedburner RSS to Email service that we offer readers and they mentioned in passing that they see the AdSense ads in the emails that they receive.
At first I was a little taken aback by this. AdSense don’t allow their ads to [...]
Written on December 5th, 2008 at 03:12 am by Darren Rowse
You’re Losing Subscribers, Here’s How to Get them Back
Today Glen Allsopp a Personal Development blogger at PluginID shares a great technique for capturing lost subscribers to your blog. You can subscribe to his blog here.
A few months ago, I was messing around in feedburner and noticed something pretty drastic, I was rapidly losing subscribers on a regular basis. I bet that you [...]
Written on November 14th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
Are RSS Subscribers Worthwhile if they Don’t Visit Your Blog?
“Why do bloggers put so much focus upon growing RSS subscriber numbers to their blog if most of them only ever read your content in Feed Readers and don’t visit your blog?”
This question (or variations of it) hit my inbox 3 times in 24 hours from different people so I thought I’d tackle it as [...]
Written on October 20th, 2008 at 10:10 am by Darren Rowse
AdSense for RSS Feeds - How Contextual Are the Ads?
Over the last few weeks we’ve (b5media) been experimenting with AdSense for RSS on our blogs (including ProBlogger). I’d previously had them on my photography blog but not here on ProBlogger.
Since activating them I’ve had around 1 email a day from readers telling me that they are seeing ’strange’ ads. The feedback is that some [...]
Written on October 17th, 2008 at 05:10 am by Darren Rowse
How to Increase Subscribers and Reader Engagement
Last week I decided to find some quality Australian blogs to subscribe to. I used a newly compiled list of Australian Marketing Blogs that Julian Cole put together as the basis for my search.
I was excited by the quality of some of the blogs on that list - but it struck me as I [...]
Written on September 13th, 2008 at 06:09 am by Darren Rowse
Where to Position Ads in Your RSS Feed
Over the past month since AdSense have released AdSense for Feeds to the wider publishing community I’ve noticed a lot more of the bloggers that I’m tracking each day are including ads in their RSS feed.
When they first started appearing I noticed most bloggers had the ads positioned at the bottom of their blog posts [...]
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