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Is Feedburner about to be closed by Google?

The Way of the Web

It’s particularly worrying in some areas, where companies of the size and scale of Google have effectively closed out the market, particularly in terms of RSS syndication with Feedburner and RSS reading with Google Reader. What’s happening to Feedburner? Feedburner Alternatives?

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Popup Opt-in Forms: Case Studies, WordPress Plugins, and Alternatives

Kikolani

How Social Media Examiner Grew Its List 234% (2012) – “The pop-up form has been absolutely instrumental in our success” says Stelzner, who estimates that the form generates nearly 70% of email subscriptions. It works with Aweber , GetResponse, Mailchimp, Turbo AutoResponder, Google Feedburner, and other mailing list service providers.

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Blogging the Festive Season: The Not-for-Profit Blog [Case Study]

ProBlogger

Stephen Pepper is insurance administrator by day, youth worker and blogger by night. In the first two weeks of November 2012 we had close to 300 people find our site through Christmas-themed search terms, suggesting this trend will continue. This includes blogging 6 days a week about youth work.

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20+ Commonly Asked Questions About Blogging & Online Marketing

Kikolani

What worked in 2011 may or may not be as effective in 2012. If you’re just doing it for fun or personal reasons, then maybe consider WordPress.com , Tumblr , or Blogger in that order. Anytime someone asks to be a guest blogger, I send them those guidelines. Isn’t Feedburner my mailing list? Monetization.

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How I Reached #1 on iTunes: A Guide to Launching a Podcast

Viper Chill

The most popular option I’ve found for bloggers who podcast is to use a plugin like the podcasting plugin for WordPress, found here. This plugin will also help you create your own iTunes feed from a specific category on your blog, which you can then run through Feedburner and submit to iTunes.

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Warning: Reading May Cause Your Hat to Fall Off

Viper Chill

After a year of running the site it had 4,000 subscribers and 6 months after that my Feedburner chicklet had just ticked over 7,000. Those came two years later in 2012, and more recently now in 2014. Another Google example comes from John Chow, the “make money online blogger” who used to be really popular back in the day.

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How to Steal the Next Billion Dollar Website Idea: A Case Study

Viper Chill

At the start of 2012 Uber – previously known as Ubercab – started to expand internationally. In 2012 location-based dating app Tinder was launched to the world and just two years later the company would announce they were now registering one billion ‘swipes’ per day.