Archive for RSS
Written on December 15th, 2009 at 11:12 am by Darren Rowse
Google Add Socialize Feature to Feedburner – Tweet Your New Blog Posts from Feedburner
Google today announced a new feature that impacts bloggers – a new URL shortener that integrates with Feedburner and a new ’socialize’ feature on Feedburner.
This allows bloggers to use Feedburner to send Tweets out automatically via Feedburner.
Of course most bloggers already have tweets going out to promote new blog posts by using either a plugin [...]
Written on August 1st, 2009 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
Let me Show You How my RSS Advertising is Performing
Today I spent a little time digging around in my AdSense earnings stats to see how they’d been performing over the last 6-12 months and particularly was interested in how the RSS advertising was performing.
I decided to pull out some of the data that I found and chart it (I’m a visual kind of guy) [...]
Written on July 23rd, 2009 at 06:07 am by Darren Rowse
Why Promote an RSS Feed if it Keeps People from Visiting Your Blog?
In the last 15 minutes I’ve had 3 people ask me pretty much the same question:
“Why promote an RSS feed where you share the full posts of your blog when it means people don’t read your blog?”
Rather than write another post on the topic I thought I’d simply share a previous post where I address [...]
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 [...]
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