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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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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. > <rss version="2.0".

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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. The two most important channels are email and RSS. 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.

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

Viper Chill

Though niches that have more web savvy audiences like marketing or technology are more likely to be affected, this is going to impact anyone who has built up their RSS readership. Also, doing it now means you can alert them again in the future with enough of a gap to remind them without annoying people who don’t subscribe via RSS.

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One Super-Easy Way To Convert Traffic And Avoid 404 Errors

SocMed Sean

Before we get to the tactic, I want to make sure you understand the value of an RSS feed. RSS, also known as real simple syndication is a web format that allows users receive your content in a variety of formats. Without an RSS feed, and very easy access to it, you’re missing out on an opportunity.

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Analyse your RSS Feed

Koka Sexton

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Analyse your RSS Feed Your RSS readership is just as important as tracking your visitors with Google Analytics. I have all of my blogs pushing their RSS feeds through Feedburner. The same is true about getting more readers to subscribe to your RSS feed.

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