Category Archives: FeedBurner

FeedBurner Tip: Create a private area for your RSS subscribers only

July 16, 2007 –

When it comes to blogging the most important people are the ones who take the time to read your RSS feed. They’re your long term readers who are in it for the long haul, much more so than the people who stop by your blog because they found it through a search engine or a social bookmarking site. They’re the ones who promote your articles, and the ones who’ll let you know when you’re falling off your blog game.

It’s important to build a rapport with them, and one of the ways to do that is by giving them special offers that aren’t available to regular readers of the website.

By engtech | Also posted in Building a Community, RSS Syndication, Technology | Comments (9)

I display my FeedBurner subscribers count because I don’t have a choice…

March 16, 2007 –

The FeedBurner subscriber count is also a badge of reliability.

By engtech | Also posted in Building a Community, RSS Syndication, Technology | Comments (10)

Feedburner and Sage

July 11, 2006 –

Colour my face red. I’d been wondering about how to subscribe to Feedburner feeds using Sage, the Firefox RSS Reader extension. With the plethora of subscription options I was wondering “How do I get an XML feed I can bookmark!?”.
It turns this Feedburner page is formatted XML that you can bookmark for Sage. Just ignore [...]

By engtech | Also posted in Asides, Technology | Comments (0)