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FeedBurner vs. Aweber: Do You Really Need an Autoresponder for Your Blog?

ProBlogger

When it comes to turning casual visitors into regular readers there are two main options—FeedBurner and Aweber. FeedBurner uses Feed-based technology (RSS and Atom) to send updates to your blog subscribers. The subscriber needs special software (a feed reader) to access the feed.

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6 Readers Share Why They Read Blogs by Email

Ari Herzog

I follow quite a few blogs, and I would miss a lot of great content if I used a reader. Liz Hover, a Canadian digital media manager : I’m not a fan of feed readers. I find the layout of feed readers noisy. I devour email. I like all my information in one place. One inbox. Email is so simple.

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

Viper Chill

Subscribers only get the content you want them to see, and not necessarily your blog posts (or all of them). It makes sense that if people are spending more time on all of these other forms of social media where they can receive content, you should look at where you’re optimising your presence.

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Creating a Custom RSS Feed for Guest Posts

Kikolani

There may also be times where you want to only share writing by you, and if you have a lot of guest bloggers on your site as well as guest posts on other sites, having a full RSS feed for your blog won’t do. Creating a Custom RSS Feed. Description – this is a short description of the content of your custom feed.

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ViperChill Monthly Report 9

Viper Chill

Subscriber Stats I really don’t know if I should continue reporting on Feedburner as the count is just far too erratic. Every day the figure fluctuates by thousands of readers, going as low as 4,000 to as high as 12,000. But with Feedburner, who knows. Yup you are right about the feedburner stats.

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ViperChill Monthly Report 12 (The Last One Ever)

Viper Chill

Feedburner is so erratic that I just can’t take it that seriously anymore. If you’re reading this in a feed reader or inbox, thanks for subscribing! Subscriber Stats. Despite the current flaws in the system, I will continue to report on the numbers that it gives me. Personal Update.

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Revisiting the Web 2.0 Dictionary - Part I

The Marketing Blog

Now replace water by ‘web content’ and homes by your ‘computer’ What we as users want is web-content to come to us on our computers. So ‘RSS’ essentially acts as pipeline and it pushes web-content to us in the RSS feed readers. We want it for various purposes and various formats.

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