About A week or so ago we started using FeedBurner for our RSS and email subscriptions. I really like all the tools that FeedBurner gives you. Mainly we did this because I had a lot of requests for people who like to receive email rather then RSS and FeedBurner really makes it nice for that.
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For RSS:
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this sold it for me, the email subscription was why I just setup a feed for my site. without it – you have to setup another plugin, or god forbid run some hokey mailing list software. I just love it when someone creates a service that ‘does the work for me’….
=)
SO much for this huh?
Your readers are closing 10,000.. congrats man
http://www.r-mail.org/ is really cool solution if the website doesnt have a auto emailer.
Well I like Feedburner as a webmaster in the way that users have numerous (and easier) options to subscribe to your feed by their favourite newsreader. But I don’t think the number of subscribers Feedburner reports are accurate.
I think you have to have 500 readers to use their ad feature; I don’t have that many yet, but I seriously expected a better ratio… damn. Another way of getting rich is blocked
i should switch… but i just like feedburner!~
Thanks for the tip. I’m not new to the internet but I am new to blogging, so I didn’t have much of a clue how the RSS feed thing worked. Feedburner explained things really well and it’s a simple set up procedure plus it’s a very cool tool.
Like I said above, keep giving people your own feed address, and then just redirect requests to feedburner. That way you don’t lose control of them (they’re all still subscribed to your domain’s feed address) yet you get to take advantage of FeedBurner at the same time.
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Jeremy, what about losing control of your subscribers? I am a Feedburner user also, but recently this issue is roaming in my mind.
Currently I am exploring the solutions for this problem.
yea duh! Do you think ShoeMoney actually has 8000+ rss readers! OMG SUCKER!
yeah, i’ve used the plugin in the past, but now just do it with htaccess.
Ads are no problem. Run them and make a buck. BTW I love feedburner.
Most likely those 8659 readers are because of the fact that this blog is in the technorati 100–and has a lot of traffic.
As far as being accurate, I’d say that feedburner is pretty accurate. But wouldn’t it be more accurate if you look the site’s log file? Granted, your log file won’t have as much data as feedburner?
Oh! Oh! The Auctions Ads RSS on Feedburner too. Can I get a T-Shirt now?
I understand but to keep his count accurate.
plus it usually results in more people visiting this site… good if you do cpm advertising…
ya true but using the popular feed burner replacement plugin just sub’s you to the feedburner feed… i think what your saying can be done with htaccess
By the way, I would recommend sticking with your local feed address (something like shoemoney.com/feed) and then redirecting that to Feedburner. That way if you ever want to part ways with them, it’s a simple as dropping the redirect and serving up the feed yourself. If people subscribe directly to the Feedburner address, on the other hand, it’ll be a lot hard to break free without losing subscribers.
It really depends… My experience has been that you get many more (and better) campaigns if you run them FAN on your site as well as in your feed. It seems that many advertisers are looking for combined campaigns. The problem is, the site ads can be kind of big and ugly. Thus, I’ve opted to run them on at the very bottom, and on single post pages only.
xml is the rss feed
Should we switch if we get the XML feed ?
+ all those readers than have to come to shoemoney.com
Offering a full feed in the start would be a good way to increase the rss readership though shoe.
Im sure that when you get over 8k rss readers you will make a nice amount of change even from monetising your feeds.
On a sidenote, is that adsense I see on the right hand side?
duh… photoshop
Nice move. I would love to hear how do you get 8,659 subscribers.
Feedburner is great but I find that a lot of people don’t verify their email address probably because the email goes straight to their spam folder and they never check there (even though Feedburner tells them to check.)
It seems less people complain about getting shorter versions then the full ones
Oh, but they don’t make that much money either.
Run them, won’t bother me; I find that they’re not obtrusive and they’re not obnoxious.
The ads are good as when people try and scrape your blog they show up
Welcome to 21st century. lol
Yea the tools are great and lets you know who and what is crawling your feed.
How about now you enable a Full Post Feed, not just the first few lines of the post?
They do nice things with podcasts, too. They feed nicely to iTunes.
Iam suprised you decided to point your feed subscriptions directly to feedburner. You could use your original feed link and send a 302 directing rss readers ( except for the feedburnder bot ) to the feedburner feed. That would let you dump feedburner with out losing readers should you decide you want to for some reason.
IMO zookoda is good for handling emails as well.
Feedburner makes life so easy. I could’nt live without it!
Yes feedburner is the best I use it on my blog…they do have a lot of features…track visitors
Shoe, Feedburner’s CAPTCHA isn’t working with IE 6. I switched to FireFox and it worked fine. Just thought I would let you know.
welcome to 2003
Feel free to run ads — not that you need my permission, but still…
I’ve been using feedburner on one of my sites and it’s super easy to setup and great stats. Just takes time to setup when you have more than one blog/site that could benefit from it
I’ve never seen an RSS Ad can you take a screen shot and show me please?
o sh*t… nice catch =P Guess what else I was setting up today!
I’ve been meaning to upgrade to the pro version so I can keep the feed on my own domain. You might look into doing the same , Shoe.
Feedburner is the way forward and the button looks cool! unless you have no readers
I vote no ads!
I use it myself and also love all the stats options and email options that they provide. Good move!
I’m actually surprised to hear that you haven’t been using feedburner all along. Good move! Seems like it is the de-facto service for bloggers these days.
FeedBurner is a great service and I really enjoy using it on my blogs.
Shoe, those RSS buttons you have in the post all point to the AuctionAds Feedburner feed, not the ShoeMoney one.
Just wanted to let you know, in case you didn’t, already.
word. feedburner is a good service i recently took it on too. just wish i’d made done it sooner.
Talking in the 3rd person now shoe
Yeah, good call. Feedburner rocks!
cool man guess i should look into feedburner.. heard of it and seen many people used it. but never used it myself.
I use feedburner too and I just got accepted into their FAN network. I’ve already made $0.01.
Ain’t it cool!
From what I’ve seen, RSS ads are far from being intrusive. There’s usually only one small banner at the bottom of the post!
Disclaimer
Maybe I’m wrong about this one
Maybe…. I am not a huge fan of bombarding your rss readers with ads but if users want ads I supposed I can deliver
I’m a huge fan of FeedBurner and have used it from the outset. Glad to hear you are now enjoying its benefits too. Are you going to try running their Ad program?
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