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Login - Social Media and Email Marketing - FeedBlitz. Email Contact, Social Media Marketing and FeedBurner Alternative: FeedBlitz. 4 MUST-SEE Feedburner Alternatives for Your Blog | iElectrify: Improve Website Design & Increase Conversions. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed . Thanks for visiting! An alternative to Feedburner can help you manage blog and newsletter subscriptions more efficiently Since Feedburner has been bought up by Google, many bloggers and coders wonder if it’s even worth the effort to try and create an alternative.

Fortunately, that hasn’t kept them from trying to create some unique plugins and services that do what Feedburner can’t (or isn’t any good at). FeedBlitz – The closest thing you’ll find to a true , FeedBlitz brings together RSS feeds and email marketing into one fast-loading, lean system. FeedMyInbox - I personally love this site as a unique . RapidFeeds – Includes lots of in-demand features, including branded RSS feeds, auto-Twitter update, RSS feed scheduling and subscriber statistics. Nouri.sh – Nourish is an RSS to email service and a reliable for those sites whose visitors don’t really grasp (or don’t use) RSS much. Got a great RSS to email service I missed? How to ping Feedburner automatically – James Williams - at the intersection of communication and technology.

I am using Yahoo Pipes to create a grouping of feeds and a single output to RSS. To keep things tidy, I send the output to Feedburner. The challenge I’ve had is that Feedburner doesn’t appear to have an updating frequency – it waits for the feed output to change. What this means is that sometimes my feed wasn’t updating for days, even though the feeds had updated. I needed a solution to the problem, a solution that would force feedburner to check the Pipes output for any new feed items. I decided to solve this problem by setting up a CRON job on my server. Immediately I hear some of you asking “What is a CRON job?” The best definition is probably Wikipedia [link: ] “CRON is a time-based job schedule in Unix-like operating systems.

Essentially, by setting up a CRON job, my server will take-on the task of pinging Feedburner on my behalf, and doing it at the interval I set. So how to do it… The first thing you’ll need is the output URL from a Feedburner Ping. Blog and Ping Tool - Use Pingler.com to Drive Traffic your Blogs and Websites. Error with Feedburner and Yahoo Pipes | Gary Eckstein.

Using FeedBurner Networks to build The One Feed To Rule Them All.... all Dan York... all the time... :- If you have multiple blogs, how do you easily create a single RSS feed that aggregates all of your blogs? I have faced this issue directly with my migration from a single weblog into a network of blogs. Some of my readers may, for whatever reason, still want to read all my writing (and to my amazement something like 15 people have subscribed to this feed I'm talking about below). As I first wrote about over on my personal blog, there is a way now to do this. By using FeedBurner's relatively new "Networks" feature (FAQ here), I have now created the "Dan York - All Feeds" network. There is now a webpage with recent posts and links to the blogs and then an aggregated RSS feed that combines posts in all blogs. Now, if you look at FeedBurner's list of Networks, you'll see a wide range of uses.

So obviously by building my own private network, I'm twisting the intent a bit. Given this, my steps to create the network were basically: 1. Now, if you think about step #6 for a moment...