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?
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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.
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....
Just set it up, and see if anyone subscribes. You won't loose anything by it I think.
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You should setup a subscription option as soon as you start your website. I probably got 3 subscribers my first day. (Of course, that was after I wrote about 50 comments on other blogs.)
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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.
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!
One thing is that I am afraid if they use RSS, then visitors simply wont be visiting my blog..
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?
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Can't set up that damn FeedBurner... argh... I'll try later...
Stoney, exactly, and also keep in mind that a LOT of blog readers still do not use RSS. And, as a person who uses Google Reader, I often click through to blogs via reader because I want to link to them. That all loops back to having great content.
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.
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.
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.
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OK, I'm now convinced to add RSS to my blog.. Thanx guys!
Feedburner your feeds right away because you are using your potential subscribers. Aweber can be added later on.
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I've done something wrong again and need help figuring it out. 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. 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.
What have I done wrong? I never was able to figure this out on my blogger blog either.
you have a space in your url...also, you should enable that visitors can subscribe via e-mail. (delete the space after the /)
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ eatathomecooks/wtwU
Thanks Grechen. I fixed the rss problem. But I don't know how to set it for accepting email. Also, I cannot get into my feedburner acct. I've tried all my email addresses, all passwords, all possibilities for username and I can't get in. This is what happened to me last time I registered with feedburner. I could never access my account again. I'm feeling really dumb over this. And a bit frustrated.
I think I've figured it out. If I click "log in" it won't work. If I click register it automatically logs me in. Crazy. I set it to accept email. Thanks for the help.
Follow the lost password instructions. That kind of thing happens to everyone...though more to me. :)
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.
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so glad i found this topic. I tried setting it up but couldn't get it figured out. Will retry using some of the above comments. The tech part of blogging trips me up. But, I do see that everyone appears to use RSS and I want to see my reader base grow.
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!
The excerpt, or partial-feed, is a website setting. To make yours a full-feed, you have to change on your website. If you have a Wordpress blog, here are the steps: go to Settings >> Reading. Near the bottom of the page it says: "For each article in a feed, show:" Choose "Full Text" rather than "Summary". Voila! Your feed is now changed. [Note: It may take a few minutes for the changes to show up in your feed. Wait a day before getting worried.]
Hope this helps,
Nate
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.
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What is the autoresponder that you are using? Could you post a link?
Thanks,
Nate
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. As for choosing between RSS or newsletter, I currently subscribe to hundreds of rss feeds, and zero e-mail updates.
@Nate I am using ezinedirector.com
you can also check out mail chimp..which has similar services.
You can't lose anything by not doing, and feedburner can handle your RSS and E-mail subscriptions!
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