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Feedburner to Feedblitz – Why We Migrated Our RSS Feed

Convince & Convert

It’s no secret, but using a service like Feedburner has become a common best practice for feed delivery among bloggers and marketers alike. Did you know that you don’t need a third-party feed service to deliver an RSS feed? Without a feed delivery service, there’s no way for you to see who has subscribed to your RSS feed and where they came.

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Am I talking to myself over here? My Feedburner saga

Janet Fouts

I migrated my clients from Feedburner some time ago because the service was getting a little sketchy. I had a little over 10,000 subscribers and yesterday Feedburner was reporting that at a big fat 0. Feedburner’s support has gone *poof*. If you’re still using Feedburner it’s probably time to make a change.

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Goodbye Feedburner, Hello Feedblitz

Ari Herzog

After nearly four years of powering this blog’s email and RSS delivery options, I’ve parted ways with Google and its free Feedburner service and embraced the paid service of Feedblitz. Feedburner used to be a wonderful company with an amazing tool that had responsive customer service — until Google bought them.

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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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Is it Time to Burn Feedburner? There are Alternatives

ProBlogger

This is a guest contribution from Steve Williams of feedburner-alternatives.com. Feedburner: The top dog in decline. The – by far – most popular choice in the blogging community is (still) Feedburner. Feedburner offers solutions for both RSS and Email. Feedburner offers solutions for both RSS and Email.

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Creating a Custom RSS Feed for Guest Posts

Kikolani

Figuring out how to do this with particular systems might pose a specific challenge, especially if those networks only allow you to import one RSS feed. Creating a Custom RSS Feed. The solution to this would be having an RSS feed with only your content in it from each of the sources you write for. Of course, that is a challenge in of itself.

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Turning off the ViperChill RSS Feed: What You HAVE to Tell Your Blog Readers

Viper Chill

A list of options includes: Feedly – highlighted as the best alternative to Google Reader by The Verge mostly due to its speed, minimalist style, and the fact that it’s free. I’m personally moving everything over to Feedly, due to the fact they have iOS and Android apps. Step Four: Detach Yourself from Feedburner.

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