http://www.problogger.com/31days/ A Community for Talking about Making Blogs Better en Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:56:26 +0000 http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4900 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:44:42 +0000 pauldickinson 4900@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>You can't lose anything by not doing, and feedburner can handle your RSS and E-mail subscriptions!</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4877 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:27:35 +0000 Dominiquegoh 4877@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>@Nate I am using ezinedirector.com</p> <p>you can also check out mail chimp..which has similar services.</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4785 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:12:36 +0000 DouglasT 4785@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>It is possible using a number of email clients to subscribe to rss feeds. I've done it with both Outlook and Mozilla's Thunderbird. So an RSS feed can do double duty for saavy site visitors.&nbsp; As for choosing between RSS or newsletter, I currently subscribe to hundreds of rss feeds, and zero e-mail updates.</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4738 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:30:28 +0000 NateDesmond 4738@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>@ Dominiquegoh</p> <p>What is the autoresponder that you are using?&nbsp; Could you post a link?</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Nate</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4631 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:12:31 +0000 Dominiquegoh 4631@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>I have been giving both RSS subscription and signed up subscribtion via a free autoresponder. Have yed Aweber(and it was great) but too costly so discontinued after a year and shifted over to ezine director.&nbsp;</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4627 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:58:32 +0000 NateDesmond 4627@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>The excerpt, or partial-feed, is a website setting.&nbsp; To make yours a full-feed, you have to change on your website.&nbsp; If you have a Wordpress blog, here are the steps: go to <strong>Settings</strong> &gt;&gt; <strong>Reading</strong>.&nbsp; Near the bottom of the page it says: "<em>For each article in a feed, show</em>:"&nbsp; Choose "Full Text" rather than "Summary".&nbsp; Voila!&nbsp; Your feed is now changed.&nbsp; [Note: It may take a few minutes for the changes to show up in your feed.&nbsp; Wait a day before getting worried.]</p> <p>Hope this helps,</p> <p>Nate</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4606 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:57:43 +0000 cdymond 4606@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>I have Feedburner set up but it only shows an excerpt and no html mark-up, and I can't figure out how to change that. Any ideas? This is so frustrating!</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4602 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:21:31 +0000 delicateflower 4602@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>so glad i found this topic.&nbsp; I tried setting it up but couldn't get it figured out.&nbsp; Will retry using some of the above comments.&nbsp; The tech part of blogging trips me up.&nbsp; But, I do see that everyone appears to use RSS and I want to see my reader base grow.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4575 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:11:56 +0000 erosissa 4575@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>Just another vote here for having an RSS feed. I read everything from Google Reader, and I get frustrated when a site doesn't make it easy to subscribe. It's true that I visit the actual site less, but if a post is really good or if I want to comment on it, I go there. It's also possible to have Adsense ads in your feed, so feed readers aren't necessarily missing out on your ads.</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4551 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:55:51 +0000 NateDesmond 4551@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>Follow the lost password instructions.&nbsp; That kind of thing happens to everyone...though more to me. :)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4543 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:06:53 +0000 Eat at Home 4543@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>Thanks Grechen.&nbsp; I fixed the rss problem.&nbsp; But I don't know how to set it for accepting email.&nbsp; Also, I cannot get into my feedburner acct.&nbsp; I've tried all my email addresses, all passwords, all possibilities for username and I can't get in.&nbsp; This is what happened to me last time I registered with feedburner.&nbsp; I could never access my account again.&nbsp; I'm feeling really dumb over this.&nbsp; And a bit frustrated.</p> <p>I think I've figured it out.&nbsp; If I click "log in" it won't work.&nbsp; If I click register it automatically logs me in.&nbsp; Crazy.&nbsp; I set it to accept email.&nbsp; Thanks for the help.</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4491 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:40:09 +0000 greche 4491@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>you have a space in your url...also, you should enable that visitors can subscribe via e-mail. (delete the space after the /)</p> <p><span><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/eatathomecooks/wtwU"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/" rel="nofollow">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/</a> eatathomecooks/wtwU </a></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4486 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:30:04 +0000 Eat at Home 4486@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>I've done something wrong again and need help figuring it out.&nbsp; I went to feedburner, signed up, burned my feed, got the url it gave me, installed a plugin on wordpress and activated it, entered the url tha feedburner gave me.... But, it doesn't work.&nbsp; When I click the rss button I get a message with a 404 error (or something like that) and the email subscribe button says that there is no feedburner for this.&nbsp;</p> <p>What have I done wrong?&nbsp; I never was able to figure this out on my blogger blog either.</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4478 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:06:14 +0000 smub 4478@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>Feedburner your feeds right away because you are using your potential subscribers. Aweber can be added later on.</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4443 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:30:36 +0000 Adrian 4443@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>OK, I'm now convinced to add RSS to my blog.. Thanx guys!</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4442 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:27:41 +0000 russhutto 4442@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>I subscribe to a large number of rss feeds and ZERO email subscriptions. Not because I don't like email, but I like having it all in one place.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>That being said, when I'm reading through my feeds each day I ALWAYS visit the actual blog if the content and conversation is worthy of a comment.</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4423 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:54:26 +0000 stoneyj 4423@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>Exactly. A blog isn't an excuse to slam ads at your readers, its an opportunity to have them interact with your thoughts and news. People who read RSS still need to come to the blog to comment. That's a good thing.</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4417 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:44:24 +0000 pennyplastic 4417@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>Stoney, exactly, and also keep in mind that a LOT of blog readers still do not use RSS.&nbsp; And, as a person who uses Google Reader, I often click through to blogs via reader because I want to link to them.&nbsp; That all loops back to having great content.</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4413 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:38:02 +0000 Adrian 4413@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>Can't set up that damn FeedBurner... argh... I'll try later...</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4404 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:11:07 +0000 stoneyj 4404@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>Do you want people to view ads, or do you want people to read and enjoy your content? If the answer is the latter, offer email and RSS. If the answer is the former, why run a blog at all?</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4402 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:57:42 +0000 Adrian 4402@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>One thing is that I am afraid if they use RSS, then visitors simply wont be visiting my blog..</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4399 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:52:52 +0000 Shane Hudson 4399@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>The majority of my subscribers are RSS. I will invest in Aweber one day as I want a mailing list, but if they prefer rss (I always subscribe to rss) then that is great!</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4386 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:18:07 +0000 Mike CJ 4386@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>You do need to offer RSS. What you'll find is that internet savvy geeks (like us?) use RSS all the time, but the vast majority of people prefer to go for email updates. You need to offer both.</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4374 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:54:30 +0000 NateDesmond 4374@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>You should setup a subscription option as soon as you start your website.&nbsp; I probably got 3 subscribers my first day.&nbsp; (Of course, that was after I wrote about 50 comments on other blogs.)</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4372 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:52:00 +0000 ChristiaanH 4372@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>I havn't seen any blogs lately that don't offer an RSS feed. It seemed natural to include one on my blog as well. It's to easy not to do I think....</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Just set it up, and see if anyone subscribes. You won't loose anything by it I think.</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4356 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:05:45 +0000 denharsh 4356@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>Adrian for now you can simply start with feedburner email subscription. once you think its the right time and you can spend some money on it. Then go for Aweber.</p> http://www.problogger.com/31days/topic.php?id=369#post-4351 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:52:36 +0000 Adrian 4351@http://www.problogger.com/31days/ <p>Hey guys! My blog is a week old and I'm thinking if it is worth starting RSS subscription? I'd prefer email subscriptions to send a newsletter to subscribers but that will come in future (when I can afford Aweber). So should I do it or just wait some time for Aweber?</p>