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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

Karen Bice, an executive assistant in Texas: Email is more convenient to me and less time consuming to stay up with blog subscriptions and Google alerts. I don’t follow RSS feeds as it would be just one more thing I would have to stay on top of. Liz Hover, a Canadian digital media manager : I’m not a fan of feed readers.

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Google Spreadsheets Update: Blessing in Disguise for Marketers…

The Marketing Blog

10 pm Google Spreadsheets Update: Blessing in Disguise for Marketers… Jump to Comments Web-based productivity tools have been around for quite a while, but their usage and focus has primarily been limited to a very niche audience. What is the problem and what is the solution being offered by Google Spreadsheets’ latest update.

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

Viper Chill

Some of the biggest news in the blogging world over the last week was without a doubt Google’s announcement that on June 1st, they’re closing Google Reader. Paraphrasing their own words, the usage of Reader is smaller than ever, and Google want to focus on fewer products. ProBlogger: 94,647.

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Is Google becoming evil?

The Way of the Web

Given the high standards Google set for itself with the aims of indexing the world’s information, and the mantra of ‘Don’t Be Evil’, it’s likely we hold it to higher standards than most companies. After all, if you’re paying $150,000 for Google Analytics Premium, you’d be expecting all information.

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A Comprehensive List of Social Media Tips, Guides, Plugins.

Saying It Social

Has your company adopted a social media strategy because you felt you were "forced" to do so? if yes, please explain.

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Creating a Custom RSS Feed for Guest Posts

Kikolani

I uploaded my custom feed to my Freelance Writing Portfolio domain since it does not have an active blog feed to compete with. Also, be sure your file name does not include the word feed (and especially not feed.xml ) as that and or a folder named feed might compete with your main blog’s feed.

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