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Add email subscriptions to your blog or feed, or subscribe to any blog by email.Phil Hollowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387932172896464608noreply@blogger.comBlogger359125http://assets.feedblitz.com/images/feedblitz_logo_med.png tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14998258.post-59278734759384060882010-02-08T22:40:00.000-05:002010-02-08T22:40:40.615-05:00<font color="#000000" ><Img align="left" border="0" height="1" width="1" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0;" vspace="0" hspace="0" src="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/i/6305970/12oquj/feedblitz"><a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://www.feedblitz.com/">FeedBlitz</a> is now welcoming service provider partners into our <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?PartnerInfo">new affiliate program</a>.&nbsp;The program&nbsp;enables service providers to: <br ><ul><li>Differentiate their offerings by automatically offering FeedBlitz email newsletters and RSS stats tracking to their client web sites;</li><li>Earn recurring revenue (up to 40%)&nbsp;from upgrading referrals.</li></ul>Our first integration is already up and running at <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://comluv.com/">comluv.com</a>, where new comluv blogs have FeedBlitz <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://www.feedblitz.com/help/tour.asp">email</a> and <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://www.feedblitz.com/rssfaq.asp">RSS services</a> embedded from the get go (comluv is the hosting side of the WordPress <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://blog.feedblitz.com/2010/01/comment-luv-and-rss-stats-you-can-have.html">CommentLuv plugin we integrated with last week</a>).&nbsp; ComLuv.com users start a free, embedded, ad-funded FeedBlitz trial, and comluv benefits from the revenue share as and when these upgrades convert.&nbsp; The email subscription widget just shows up once enabled; there's no fretting with HTML code for comluv end users.&nbsp; <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://twitter.com/CommentLuv/status/8648165416">Woot indeed!</a> <br > <br >Here's the really good news for service providers: it's truly easy to implement.&nbsp; A single URL sets up your client. You can easily roll it out to existing users or add it as an option to your bundles or control panels. <br > <br >This program is perfect for services such as registrars, hosting services, industry-specific providers&nbsp;and web site management firms.&nbsp; If your service can make a single URL call on the back end, you can do this! Write to me or to FeedBlitz tech support for more information and how to start earning.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14998258-5927873475938406088?l=blog.feedblitz.com' alt='' ></div></font><p><div style="clear:both;">&copy; FeedBlitz, LLC. 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I've not received my mailing t...</a> <i>by G.R. ''Scott'' Cundiff</i><li><a href="http://blog.feedblitz.com/2010/02/delays-morning-of-feb-3rd.html?showComment=1265220331473#c4941960672027935616">Our emails have finally started going out (or at l...</a> <i>by andrewn</i></ul></p> </div>Phil Hollowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387932172896464608noreply@blogger.com3 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14998258.post-45562988550955137892010-02-01T19:42:00.001-05:002010-02-02T00:29:41.266-05:00<font color="#000000" ><Img align="left" border="0" height="1" width="1" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0;" vspace="0" hspace="0" src="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/i/5977289/12oquj/feedblitz">Having to due a litle impromptu maintenance; will be back as quickly as we can.<br ><br >Update: 12:30am, Feb 2nd. 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Your page isn't loading.</a> <i>by captspastic</i><li><a href="http://blog.feedblitz.com/2010/02/reduced-availability-evening-of-feb-1.html?showComment=1265182358012#c8296819248901870521">not working.</a> <i>by Nikhil Pahwa</i></ul></p> </div>Phil Hollowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387932172896464608noreply@blogger.com3 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14998258.post-4034386531963297012010-01-31T11:52:00.006-05:002010-01-31T12:08:53.583-05:00<font color="#000000" ><Img align="left" border="0" height="1" width="1" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0;" vspace="0" hspace="0" src="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/i/5922247/12oquj/feedblitz">Bloggers using <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://comluv.com/">Comment Luv</a> to help boost their SEO (search engine optimization) results have long had a dilemma when it cam to RSS feed stats tracking services like FeedBurner.&nbsp; If they wanted the best search engine results for the link included by CommentLuv in their comment, they had to disable RSS item tracking, because link tracking redirected the link through FeedBurner and reduced the power of the backlink.&nbsp; <br > <br >In other words, bloggers had to choose between knowing how feeds were being consumed and improving their blog's position in the search engine results pages (SERPs). <br > <br >That was a crummy choice to have to make. <br > <br ><em>And FeedBlitz has fixed it.</em> <br > <br >I'm happy to announce that we have worked with Comment Luv (<a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://twitter.com/commentluv"><span id="goog_1264954495766"></span>Twitter: @commentluv<span id="goog_1264954495767"></span></a>) to ensure that bloggers using FeedBlitz's RSS services (<a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://www.feedblitz.com/rssfaq.asp">the leading and fully-supported alternative to FeedBurner</a>) and CommentLuv together will: <br ><ul><li>Have their native links served when CommentLuv adds their links to a comment so all the "google juice" ends up where it belongs; AND </li><li>Track RSS subscribers and other detailed feed usage activity using FeedBlitz's RSS stats&nbsp;/ metrics / item tracking service.</li></ul>So with FeedBlitz (and only with FeedBlitz), bloggers can both track comprehensive RSS subscriber activity AND get all the SEO / SEM (search engine marketing) benefits which are properly theirs when using CommentLuv. No more crummy either / or decisions. <br > <br ><strong>How to Start</strong> <br ><ul><li>Register with FeedBlitz.</li><li>Set up your CommentLuv-friendly feed via <strong>RSS / New</strong> (start a trial if necessary);</li><li>Tell CommentLuv how to find your FeedBlitz feed, by either:</li><ul><li>Updating your blog's feed autodiscovery settings to use the FeedBlitz version of your feed, OR </li><li>Changing / defining the URL CommentLuv uses to be your FeedBlitzed feed in your CommentLuv account settings.</li></ul></ul>That's it!&nbsp; CommentLuv will then pick up your SEO-friendly links automatically. <br > <br ><strong>And one more thing...</strong> <br > <br >It's been great fun working with Andy at Comment Luv; there's more to come in the not too distant future.&nbsp; Stay tuned... <br > <br ><strong>More on FeedBlitz's RSS Feed Services</strong> <br ><ul><li><a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/08/automatic-category-feeds-for-everyone.html">Automatic Category Feeds for Everyone</a></li><li><a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/10/rss-metrics-good-bad-and-invisible.html">RSS Metrics: The Good, the Bad and the Invisible</a> </li><li><a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/04/rss-and-google-analytics-integration.html">RSS Google Analytics Integration</a></li><li><a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/04/own-your-rss.html">Own Your RSS</a></li><li><a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/03/rss-feed-merging-added.html">RSS Feed Merging</a></li><li><a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/04/feedburner-compatbility-mode-for-feed.html">FeedBurner Compatibility Mode for Easier Feed Migration</a></li><li><a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/04/how-to-migrate-your-feedburner-feeds.html">How to Migrate your FeedBurner Feeds</a>&nbsp;</li><li><a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/03/feedburner-alternative-blitz-your-rss.html">Blitz Your RSS</a></li></ul><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14998258-403438653196329701?l=blog.feedblitz.com' alt='' ></div></font><p><div style="clear:both;">&copy; FeedBlitz, LLC. 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<br > <br ><strong>Save 33% to 50% </strong>(really!) if you upgrade and move to an annual payment plan. <br ><strong>Save 10% </strong>if you upgrade from the ad-funded service and pay monthly. <br > <br >It's a fabulous offer for publishers using our free, ad-funded email marketing services, and is available right now. <br > <br >The actual discounts vary by who you are, so log in to FeedBlitz and check out the offers at <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/f?NewAccount">www.feedblitz.com/f?NewAccount</a> (you MUST be logged in to be offered this deal). <br > <br >If you want to stop the ads, make your mailings more professional, and take control of your mailings then this is the best time to take the plunge and upgrade. After all, 50% discounts don't come along every day and in these times it just makes sense to get the best deal you can. <br > <br >The catch? Annual pricing and these other discounts are only available to publishers currently on our ad-funded services full time (i.e. those who were using FeedBlitz on the free service before 1/1/2009). <br > <br >Do you qualify? If there's an ad in your mailing and you're not in a trial or grace period then, yes, you probably do! <br > <br ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/f?NewAccount">Visit the upgrade page</a> now to see what you qualify for, or contact support for more information.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14998258-8181869789863330471?l=blog.feedblitz.com' alt='' ></div></font><p><div style="clear:both;">&copy; FeedBlitz, LLC. 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Once you have the email delivered to the subscriber's inbox, you still have to get them to take the next step and open it, read it and interact with it. At each of these steps, though, you risk losing the reader or - worse - earning a quick trip to the trash folder. <br > <br ><h2>Top 5 Essential Tasks</h2>So how do you minimize these risks and boost your mailing's effectiveness? Simple, really: With these basic five tasks: <br > <br ><ol><li>Identify Yourself</li><li>Brand Your Mailings</li><li>Tweet the Word</li><li>Say Thank You</li><li>Write Great Content</li></ol><p>Well, OK, what do these mean in practice? And how do you make them happen in FeedBlitz?</p><h3>Identify Yourself</h3><img border="0" align="left" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/images/email.jpg" >When your mail turns up in your recipient's in box, is it obviously from you? Putting your name (or your company or brand name) as the sender is an essential step in the recipient recognizing that the mail is, in fact, from you. This means that your mailing is much more likely to be opened in those crucial first seconds when the subscriber gets it. <br > <br >All FeedBlitz publishers can set this for their mailings at <strong>Newsletters / Settings / Email Envelope Settings</strong>. <br > <br ><h3>Brand Your Mailings</h3><img border="0" align="left" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/images/design.jpg" >Once the mail is opened, does it reinforce your brand? Or, at least, does it look like the way you want it to? <br > <br >If your blog, brand name or logo isn't at the top left of the email when it's opened then you're missing an opportunity to reinforce your branding and further encourage the recipient to read on. This is especially true for email read on mobile platforms - give your recipient a chance to recognize your brand without having to scroll the screen. <br > <br >FeedBlitz mailing list owners can upload logos and other artwork and use it to quickly build a branded mailing at <strong>Newsletters / Settings / Easy Email Design Editor.</strong> More advanced users can dive into HTML using the advanced template editor. <br ><p></p><p><h3>Tweet The Word</h3><img border="0" align="left" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/images/twitter.jpg" >Get your mailings onto Twitter where it will reach your most ardent and sophisticated social media audience - as well as be picked up by real-time search engines, including Google now. <br > <br >You can get your word out quickly and to a wider audience than your traditional mailing list this way. It's trivial to set up at <strong>Newsletters / Mailings / Twitter</strong> <br > <br ><h3>Say Thank You</h3><img border="0" align="left" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/images/test.jpg" >Seems basic, doesn't it? When a subscription is activated, let your new subscribers know you care - or reward them with a free white paper, report or coupon. Such event-driven mailings are called "autoresponders" and can be simple one-shot deals (e.g. sending a "thank you for subscribing" message) to multi-step drip marketing sequences or email courses. <br > <br >Set these up at FeedBlitz using the <strong>Responders </strong>tab (or read on for an easy way to create a single step "thank you" autoresponder). <br > <br ><h3>Write Great Content</h3><img border="0" align="left" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/images/lightbulb.png" >Ok, this part's up to you! But if you're blogging for fun, family or business you're probably already doing that. Right? Right! But... are you reaching everyone you could? There's an extra task here that you might want to consider. <br > <br >You're using FeedBlitz to automate both production and distribution of your mailings, so think about importing opted-in subscribers from other services via <strong>Newsletters / Subscribers / Import Subscribers </strong>(we'll validate them with an opt out mailing if your import passes our other anti-abuse policies). <br > <br ><h2>That's the Theory - But in the Real World...</h2>The thing about all these tasks is that while each takes only a matter of seconds to a couple of minutes to do each task, most publishers haven't done any for their lists. And that means that they're not making nearly the most of marketing services like FeedBlitz and that your list is potentially underperforming. <br > <br >In fact, we ran a report on the FeedBlitz database last week. Including the import task, we wanted to know how well our users where using our service. <br ><p></p><p>Scary stuff. </p><ul><li>Fully <strong>85% </strong>of our lists haven't done anything beyond our default settings. No customization, branding, importing, tweeting. <br ><li><strong>8.6% </strong>had just one of these tasks completed. <br ><li><strong>3.9% </strong>had finished two, <strong>2.0% </strong>had finished three best practice tasks, and only <strong>0.3% </strong>had done four. <br ><li>And the percentage with <em>all </em>these Good Things done? <strong>0.02%</strong> </li></ul><p>Yet all these features are readily available to all. So how can we help you use them? </p><h2>Encouraging Best Practice</h2>Now to be fair, some of the features that we're talking about didn't exist at FeedBlitz in the early days. Since the beauty of FeedBlitz is that it automates the mailing tasks and pretty much just works, once it's been set up there's no compelling reason to keep coming back unless it's for reporting or to run an import. <br > <br >But still - it seems there's a lot of room for improvement. And since we're here to help, here's what we've done. <br > <br >When you come back to your <strong>newsletters tab</strong>, you'll find a new "Best Practices" task list sitting atop your Newsletter tab, along with your grade (we give you a mulligan for creating the list in the first place, so nobody starts at zero!). A completed task list looks like this: <br > <br ><img border="0" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/images/tasklist.png" > <br >The task(s) you need to do next will gently pulse until you do them. We prioritize identification and branding first, since these will immediately benefit your existing subscribers and give you the most value in terms of increased attention and engagement. Clicking on the icon, if it's pulsing or enabled, takes you directly to the page you need without having to traverse the site's navigation. Icons that are disabled will start to pulse when the appropriate pre-requisite tasks have been finished. <br > <br >Once you've set up these, you can move on to importing, tweeting and quickly setting up a simple one-step "thank you" autoresponder, without having to work with the more powerful but more complex user interface in the Responders area. Each task typically takes no more than a minute or two to finish, although an import will have to complete before you can start a new one. <br > <br >(Ironically, it turns out when I checked in on FeedBlitz News after the task lists went live that I'd forgotten to add a "thank you" autoresponder myself! Fixed it now...) <br ><h2>Rewarding Best Practice</h2><img border="0" align="left" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/images/star.png" >We know that, even with the best of intentions, knowing that you should do something doesn't mean that it will get done, especially around the holiday season and year-end when there are so many other calls on your time. <br > <br >So even though each task only takes a minute or two and your mailings will be significantly more productive as you step up your grade, we'd like to give you another reason to step up your game this year. <br > <br >Publishers who get to a 100% grade - all tasks completed - will get a special, time-limited bonus for their readership. So press on and check it out! <br > <br >The rest of you? Log in to FeedBlitz and click the <strong>Newsletters tab </strong>to check your grade and take the first step to increasing your blog's productivity. You'll also be getting an email from us soon detailing how you're doing and what the most essential next step is. <br > <br >You've worked hard to build your list; make the most of it with <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://www.feedblitz.com/">FeedBlitz</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14998258-614455492976352367?l=blog.feedblitz.com' alt='' ></div></font><p><div style="clear:both;">&copy; FeedBlitz, LLC. 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They have had a power outage overnight and apparently the FeedBlitz RSS Service lives on one of the "remaining instances" that they are "continuing to work on" - nothing we can do about this until Amazon comes back up. More real-time updates will be on Twitter - <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://twitter.com/phollows">http://twitter.com/phollows</a><br ><br ><strong>Update 8:45 am </strong>- and we're back 100%<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14998258-76230562407548775?l=blog.feedblitz.com' alt='' ></div></font><p><div style="clear:both;">&copy; FeedBlitz, LLC. 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If you can't measure the success of a program (whatever success means to you) then you have no idea how well it's working and whether you should invest in it, tune it, or kill it. If you can't measure it, you can't manage it. Simple, really. <br > <br >So online marketers invest a lot of time setting up measurement systems for their online programs, such as Google Analytics for web sites and open / click through tracking for email marketing programs. It's even possible to get stats-addicted, endlessly micromanaging and tuning online programs while the bigger picture - and the bigger opportunities - pass you by. <br > <br >But that aside, getting to know your basic metrics - and their trends - is fundamental. That's true for bloggers and new media sites, because we all feel good when our stats go up and feel in our guts when a key metric burps. <br > <br >So how come the state of RSS metrics is so parlous? Most bloggers focus on their RSS circulation as the key metric, and the only other useful metric commonly available is reach (more on both these below). RSS services like FeedBlitz and FeedBurner give you that top line circulation number, even though it's almost certainly meaningless. <br > <br ><strong>RSS Metrics: The Bad</strong> <br > <br >Screeeeech. Rewind. Circulation is <em>"meaningless"</em>? <br > <br >Yup. Not because the number isn't accurate. It's certainly the best number the relevant service can come up with, and it can be tuned or <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://adsenseforfeeds.blogspot.com/2009/09/small-yet-noteworthy-change-to-our-item.html">altered from time to time</a> to "improve" it. <br > <br >No, it's not because it's inaccurate (but, man, we can surely debate that until the proverbial cows come home). No, circulation is mostly rot because it's not a particularly <em>useful </em>metric to be tracking. It's analogous to the total number of email subscribers in your email list. As any decent email marketer will (or should) tell you, size doesn't matter; it's <em>quality </em>that counts. And quality is largely measured by metrics such as open and click through rates. In other words, it's how many recipients <em>interact </em>with your mailing that determine how successful each mailing is. Same with advertising - better targeting yields better response rates which, in turn, command higher prices. And so it should be with feeds. <br > <br ><strong>RSS Metrics: The Good</strong> <br > <br >So where are we in RSS-land? We have subscribers (or as we call it, circulation), the total (-ish) number of subscribers to your RSS feed, and then there is <em>reach</em>, which is a measure of how many of your subscribers have interacted with your feed. Reach is a good quality metric, as it tells you how much <em>activity </em>your feed is generating. While reach will vary from day to day and post to post, the trend in reach will tell you whether you are gaining or losing <em>attention </em>from your readership. Reach, not circulation, is what you should really care about. <br > <br >The <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://www.feedblitz.com/rssfaq.asp">FeedBlitz RSS service</a> calculates your reach on any given day by determining how many unique readers interacted with your feed (either opened it or clicked through). Useful, yes. But sadly reach, too, has its problems. Your reach total is probably <em>under</em>-reporting activity, because it has the same problems as email open rates: If the subscriber doesn't have images displayed you can't track the act of opening the email or reading the RSS article, because it's the call to the server for a tracking image that is counted. No images, no counting. Instead, for that subscriber, you have to catch them when (or, rather, if) they click through. <br > <br ><strong>RSS Metrics: The Invisible</strong> <br > <br >Here's where the bad news kicks in. Did you know that you are simply missing out on almost all subscriber clicks on your RSS feed? That you're not tracking the vast majority of these subscriber interactions? <br > <br >It's true. Unless our invisible subscriber above happens to click through to the source article (usually by clicking on the post's title) - if they click on anything else - dollars to doughnuts you're going to miss them. And that means you're not getting the big picture at all. In fact, perhaps (or even probably) you're getting only a very small fraction of it. Why? Because you're not counting clicks on links that are <em>within </em>the post. If our invisible subscriber clicks on anything <em>inside</em> the post - anything at all - they won't be tracked and that subscriber's activity missed. <br > <br >By way of example I offer you TechCrunch's RSS feed at <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://feeds.feedburner.com/techcrunch">http://feeds.feedburner.com/techcrunch</a> (not to pick on TechCrunch, by the way; I'm just using a well-known technology feed to make my point). <br > <br ><a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://www.techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch</a>, like most new media companies, liberally sprinkles its articles with links, some internal to the site and some to the third party sites mentioned in the post. Looking at the current feed I see the article <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/LnDLea04oIU/">R.I.P. Good Times: One Year Later</a> - which has sixteen (16) links in the post, not including ads and FeedFlares (remember, you're accessing the posts via the feed <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://feeds.feedburner.com/techcrunch">http://feeds.feedburner.com/techcrunch</a> not their website). TechCrunch has link tracking enabled via FeedBurner, and so the link back to the site via the article's title is tracked. You can tell because the link doesn't look like a TechCrunch site link; it has codes and funny characters (a tilde: ~ ) in it if you hover over it with your cursor / mouse pointer. <br > <br >Not so those 16 links inside the post. They're regular URLs - no tracking. Now, let's say you're one of the bajillion people who subscribe to TechCrunch in your RSS aggregator. What do <em>you </em>click on? Do you click on the post itself, only to read exactly the same article online (only with more ads)? <br > <br >Nah. More than likely you click on the links <em>inside</em> the article and head off to read about Sequoia Capital or the the deadpool or the crunchbase or whatever else is linked to in the post. <br > <br >Which means that when you do that, the RSS feed metrics will under-record the feed's reach because your click isn't counted. The good folks at TC simply can't tell you how many of their RSS readers click on links inside any post because they're simply not collecting that data. And nor are you for your blog. If you extensively use links in your posts you're absolutely, positively, no-doubt-about-it missing out on feed-based activity. <br > <br >If the likelihood is that these are, in fact, the links that are being clicked on by subscribers, can you imagine how much intelligence, how much useful information is being lost? Does that translate into lost revenue? Remember, if you can't measure it, you can't manage it. You're optimizing your online programs with massively incomplete information, and (worse) you don't even know how incomplete your knowledge is. <br > <br ><strong>RSS Metrics @ FeedBlitz: Making the Invisible Visible</strong> <br > <br >Wow, talk about burying the lead. Anyway, as of now, the FeedBlitz RSS service ALSO tracks internal links inside feed posts automatically. These links will appear on the RSS report and also make the reach figures larger (because we'll be capturing more activity) and more accurate (for the same reason). How much larger will depend on how often you use links inside your posts; the more often you add links within a post (I think TechCrunch, with double-figure counts, is fairly extreme) the better the metrics and the more likely you are to see your reach rise as a result. <br > <br >As an example, read this article at <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz">http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz</a> (why not subscribe while you're there!). Look at the links inside. Coded. Tracked. This will be the first article - possibly <em>ever </em>- on an RSS feed where I, the feed owner, will be able to see all the activity the post generates. Finally, fret not, SEO mavens: all the links are 301 redirects, giving you the full Google-juice benefit. <br > <br >Better yet, if you use your FeedBlitz feed to power your email marketing, you get the same benefits too. 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the money, that's why we decided to go fu...</a> <i>by Administrator</i><li><a href="http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/10/rss-metrics-good-bad-and-invisible.html?showComment=1255620172268#c7713836462923631664">The fast tempo music in this background video made...</a> <i>by Simon</i></ul></p> </div>Phil Hollowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387932172896464608noreply@blogger.com2 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14998258.post-6543685579448672272009-10-01T08:13:00.003-04:002009-10-01T10:00:54.053-04:00<font color="#000000" ><Img align="left" border="0" height="1" width="1" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0;" vspace="0" hspace="0" src="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/i/1464285/12oquj/feedblitz">If you were affected by the ho-hum availability of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">FeedBlitz</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">RSS</span> service recently (we're A-OK now, by the way), here's why: Traffic jumped by a factor of 17 over this time last week and it took us too long to get to grips with it, for which I apologize. I hope this post will help explain why that happened, what we did and didn't do, and what we have learned from the experience. <br > <br ><strong>Chronology</strong> <br > <br >Late last Friday (September 25<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span>) we noticed that incoming traffic had - very suddenly - started to clog the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">RSS</span> service. We dug around a little, found out why, and added a new server. That seemed to handle things nicely and that was that - or so we thought at the time. Over the weekend the service was doing OK - a couple of flags here and there but nothing that seemed to merit urgent attention - and this continued through into Monday. So far, so good, and I was able to talk about the new <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/09/why-separate-rss-feeds-and-comments.html">integrated comment feature</a> instead. Swell! <br > <br >Come Tuesday morning, though, and things weren't so happy. So we span up yet more servers to hold the fort (let's hear it for Amazon EC2 and <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/03/cloudy-with-chance-of-servers.html">cloudy services</a>!), which seemed to settle things down. <br > <br >Yesterday (Wednesday), however, the traffic was again swamping the virtual server array and it was clear that simply spinning up more of the servers we had been using wasn't cutting it. So, instead, yesterday morning we hauled out a series of much larger servers into (from?) the cloud. At one point we had 7x the number of servers running than we did a week ago. Right now, the computing capacity currently deployed to serve feeds is more like 30x more than this time last week. <br > <br ><strong>Results</strong> <br > <br >The good news is that the current <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">infrastructure</span> is now holding its own really well - in fact, we're starting to take some of the servers down now that we understand better the nature of this flood and how to handle it. There's plenty of headroom left right now to cope with at least a doubling of traffic should that happen and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">RSS</span> delivery is currently extremely stable and responsive. <br > <br >From a numbers perspective, comparing yesterday to a week ago, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">RSS</span> traffic we served went from just under 15 requests per second to 251 requests per second yesterday - that's the 17-fold increase. That's a huge change in what had otherwise been a predictable service with predictable traffic patterns. <br > <br ><strong>Questions, Questions.</strong> <br > <br >So that's what we did - but where did all this traffic come from? And how come we were so surprised? <br > <br >Let me take the second question first. After about 6 months running the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">RSS</span> offering we know (or thought we knew) how it worked and how it changed. Basically, as we incrementally acquire new customers for the service, the load on the service grows incrementally in parallel. Most of the feeds we see have circulations in the thousands and tens of thousands, nothing scary about that at all and well within the ability of last week's infrastructure to handle for the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">foreseeable</span> future. We had no idea last Friday that this was about to change. <br > <br >At the end of last week a new client started to use <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">FeedBlitz</span> to serve their feed. Their feed was not being accessed via traditional <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">aggregators</span>, though. Instead, it was being accessed by an automatically updating browser toolbar. With a circulation, apparently, of around 7 million individual users. So when a user with the toolbar fires up their browser they fetch the feed (and because the toolbar itself isn't particularly well-written, they keep on asking for the full feed, despite the headers we send back. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">Grrr</span>!). Literally one minute things were fine, and the next, overload central. <br > <br >The toolbar factor is important. By way of background, most <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">bloggers</span> and content publishers have large portions of their audiences consolidated by web <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error">aggregators</span>, such as Google Reader, email services like <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-error">FeedBlitz</span>, or have well-behaved desktop <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-error">aggregators</span> that know not to keep hitting up feed every 10 seconds. So even if a blog network comes to us with an audience of, say, a million <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error">RSS</span> subscribers, it's more than likely that a good half of those will be handled by a few large <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-error">aggregators</span>, and the load from the personal systems might add a million hits or so a day to the system or so. That's easily handled. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error">RSS</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error">aggregators</span> are well behaved too; they understand things like entity tags in HTTP headers which help minimize traffic. <br > <br >The toolbar added an extra 20 million hits per day to the infrastructure. It's therefore roughly equivalent to the load generated by a blog with a multi-million subscriber <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_20" class="blsp-spelling-error">RSS</span> feed. Does anyone in the real world have a feed that size, anyway? I don't think even <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_21" class="blsp-spelling-error">TechCrunch's</span> or <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_22" class="blsp-spelling-error">Scoble's</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_23" class="blsp-spelling-error">RSS</span> audiences are that big. So, no, we just didn't expect this kind of load appearing, unannounced, overnight. <br > <br ><strong>Looking Ahead</strong> <br > <br >So, anyway, hence the performance issues earlier this week. We strive to do our best here but for a while we weren't able to keep up. That's personally disappointing for me and I am certainly sorry for the inconvenience wrought on some of our clients as a result. The good news is that the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_24" class="blsp-spelling-error">RSS</span> infrastructure is now not only better able to cope with a similar sized surge in the future, we're better able to ramp it up quickly and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_25" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">aggressively</span> as and when we have to. One key lesson learned is that we scaled too conservatively when the initial hits came in, causing us to have to scramble later on - weekend traffic is always lighter than weekday and we failed to take that into account adequately. With hindsight we should have <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_26" class="blsp-spelling-error">overscaled</span> at first, then pulled back as the full traffic profile became clearer. We won't be making that mistake again. <br > <br ><strong><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_27" class="blsp-spelling-error">Geekery</span>: <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_28" class="blsp-spelling-error">AWS</span>, EC2, S3 and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_29" class="blsp-spelling-error">Memcached</span></strong> <br > <br >Technically, there were a few surprises as well as we drilled into how to improve performance. You may not realize this, but when we serve a feed to you - say <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz">http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz</a> - we're not simply sending a static file. The feed is subtly different for each individual user. Which is why we need beefy servers to handle the load because <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_30" class="blsp-spelling-error">FeedBlitz</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_31" class="blsp-spelling-error">RSS</span> is CPU-limited, not bandwidth limited. In other words, serving a feed is work for the computer involved; we're not simply yanking the file out of a local cache and declaring victory. <br > <br >But talking of caches, here's another interesting technical factoid we discovered. Like many services, we use a technology called <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_32" class="blsp-spelling-error">memcached</span> to help scale. We'd assumed that it would work well in the EC2 cloud because there was no reason to think otherwise. And we were wrong. Our instrumentation in the middle of this episode clearly showed that caching and retrieving data from Amazon's S3 service was consistently an order of magnitude faster for servers under stress than fetching the same data from an EC2-hosted <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_33" class="blsp-spelling-error">memcached</span> server. My assumption is that there are environmental optimizations within the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_34" class="blsp-spelling-error">AWS</span> environment that grease the electronic skids for S3 requests. If you're using <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_35" class="blsp-spelling-error">memcached</span> inside EC2 my recommendation is that you instrument the code you're using - <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_36" class="blsp-spelling-error">memcached</span> might not be working as effectively for you as you think it is. For what it's worth, we had been using <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_37" class="blsp-spelling-error">memcached</span> as a primary cache with S3 as a backstop. Now we just go directly to S3 instead. It's way faster. <br > <br ><strong>The Bottom Line</strong> <br > <br >So there's the scoop. Big flood of traffic, didn't scale fast enough, but we're good now. <br > <br ><strong>Post Script</strong> <br > <br >Oh, and by the way: If you're planning on dropping a few million subscribers on us overnight, please do. We can handle it now. Just give us a heads up first, okay? Thanks!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14998258-654368557944867227?l=blog.feedblitz.com' alt='' ></div></font><p><div style="clear:both;">&copy; FeedBlitz, LLC. 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The...</a> <i>by www.aroundtheworld.pl</i></ul></p> </div>Phil Hollowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387932172896464608noreply@blogger.com5 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14998258.post-3646461775706373212009-09-28T18:19:00.006-04:002009-09-28T20:36:54.269-04:00<font color="#000000" ><Img align="left" border="0" height="1" width="1" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0;" vspace="0" hspace="0" src="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/i/1433933/12oquj/feedblitz">This has been bugging me the last few days as we've quietly extended support for commenting within FeedBlitz (FYI comment links now appear for Blogger blogs whereas they didn't before, for example, and new comment icons appear in FeedBlitz RSS feeds where appropriate). <br > <br >But it kept on striking me as odd - why do feeds force subscribers to subscribe to something else (a site comments feed or an individual post's comment feed), or to visit an alternative page or site to see the current conversation? Why aren't the latest comments, you know, just <em>there</em>, in the feed, when it's read? Why are we making readers to go to all this extra effort? Surely the conversation is part of the content, and it surely makes sense to have the conversation in the same <em>context </em>as the content, no matter where it's being consumed. <br > <br >From being bugged to taking action. As of now, all new feeds created on the FeedBlitz RSS service will include the 5 most recent comments if we can find them. You can change that (from none to the ten most recent), along with the entry title (such as "Talk to me!" instead of the default "Comments" and the text that displays when there are more comments available than your settings permit to be shown. Go to <strong>RSS / Settings </strong>and expand the <strong>Per-Post Customization </strong>area to access the comment integration settings. Publishers with existing feeds will can enable the feature at the same place. <br > <br >The goal here is to increase engagement and user attention by providing the dialog in the context of the feed. And to see it in action (I have a limit of 5 comments set up and have changed the default text to "Join the Conversation!") add <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz">http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz</a> to your aggregator or RSS reader. <br > <br >The one gotcha is that if you're using a third party comment service (such as Disqus) then it's unlikely that the relevant tags are going to be in your feed so you may not get this feature to show up. Yet. <br > <br >Anyway - do chime in here, please. Corruption of the purity of the feed ... or an interesting idea? 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The worst that should happen as comments ...</a> <i>by Phil Hollows</i><li><a href="http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/09/why-separate-rss-feeds-and-comments.html?showComment=1254982042196#c6983295703639106498">Oh, this could easily get complicated. But I love ...</a> <i>by curvesnangles</i><li><a href="http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/09/why-separate-rss-feeds-and-comments.html?showComment=1254233466487#c2686176060956276315">I like the idea of having the full conversation sh...</a> <i>by Rebecca</i><li><a href="http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/09/why-separate-rss-feeds-and-comments.html?showComment=1254223782088#c348467557355955203">Hi Andy: It could be - but being marked as new or ...</a> <i>by Phil Hollows</i><li><a href="http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/09/why-separate-rss-feeds-and-comments.html?showComment=1254208408723#c7681698865280287118">It will be an interesting experiment though this w...</a> <i>by Andy Beard</i></ul></p> </div>Phil Hollowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387932172896464608noreply@blogger.com5 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14998258.post-2078122962131281852009-09-25T07:35:00.001-04:002009-09-25T08:44:49.414-04:00<font color="#000000" ><Img align="left" border="0" height="1" width="1" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0;" vspace="0" hspace="0" src="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/i/1355837/12oquj/feedblitz">We'll be running some maintenance on FeedBlitz late Saturday evening, US Eastern. 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Please, We...</a> <i>by Darrell</i></ul></p> </div>Phil Hollowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387932172896464608noreply@blogger.com2 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14998258.post-67003374938155061652009-09-22T14:59:00.004-04:002009-09-22T15:27:27.457-04:00<font color="#000000" ><Img align="left" border="0" height="1" width="1" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0;" vspace="0" hspace="0" src="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/i/1296723/12oquj/feedblitz">FeedBlitz has long had a very easy way for marketers to enable dynamic user-defined newsletters using the tracking API call: <br > <br ><font face="courier-new,courier">http://www.feedblitz.com/f?Track=&lt;user-defined-url&gt;&amp;publisher=&lt;publisher-id&gt;</font> <br > <br >where you substitute in the appropriate values (your &lt;publisher-ID&gt; is your subscriber ID, visible at <strong>My Account / My Profile</strong>). It's great for users who use search, for example, which generates an RSS feed under the covers from which you can then generate a nifty, personalized email newsletter. <br > <br >When the email is sent it's branded with the publisher's "master feed" - enabled in the advanced template editor. This works great for when you have a single graphic design that can be consistently applied across all your newsletters. <br > <br >What we're finding here at FeedBlitz is that as we grow, the complexity and requirements of our larger customers are changing and growing too. We're finding that new media publishers often have multiple brands within their portfolio, and that they want to brand a user-defined email from site X with site X's branding - but want to define user-defined newsletters from brand Y with brand Y's branding. Master feeds don't cut it here, since they're a one-size-fits-all solution. <br > <br >So, for new media, multi-branded sites, we've added a new (optional) parameter to the tracking URL - portal. The portal is the list ID of the newsletter whose branding you want to use for the user-generated emails (newsletter list IDs are visible at <b>Newsletters / Settings / Content Settings</b>). So using the above example, this: <br > <br ><font face="courier-new,courier">http://www.feedblitz.com/f?Track=&lt;user-defined-url&gt;&amp;publisher=&lt;publisher-id&gt;&amp;portal=X</font> <br > <br >gives emails a different branding from this: <br > <br ><font face="courier-new,courier">http://www.feedblitz.com/f?Track=&lt;user-defined-url&gt;&amp;publisher=&lt;publisher-id&gt;&amp;portal=Y</font> <br > <br >As long as there is a template defined for "X" and "Y" everything works. <br > <br >There are a couple of restrictions: once a given user-defined URL has been associated with another feed's template in your account, the only way to change it is by using a template editor. Secondly, you have to own the list you're using to brand with, for pretty obvious reasons. <br > <br >Now, start to imagine the possibilities when you combine this feature with the <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/09/since-its-inception-feedblitz-has-been.html">multi-feed templates</a> discussed yesterday...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14998258-6700337493815506165?l=blog.feedblitz.com' alt='' ></div></font><p><div style="clear:both;">&copy; FeedBlitz, LLC. 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There are services - such as <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://www.feedblitz.com/rssafq.asp">FeedBlitz's RSS service</a> and Yahoo Pipes - that allow multiple feeds to be merged, blended and spliced into one, so it's also easy to munge multiple feeds into a single newsletter.</p><p>But the problem with splicing is that it merges and mixes all the source feeds into one unified feed. While that's fine for many applications, what if you want to have a single newsletter, structured with distinct sections? Or what if you want to build a mailing with email widgets in the sidebar, such as special offers, or your most recent tweets, or your last.fm playlist, or your latest photos or videos, all without having to manually edit the template all the time? You can't do that with a single feed - whether spliced or standalone - and simple templates.<p>Or, rather, you couldn't ... until now.</p><h3>One Newsletter, Many Feeds, No Extra Work.</h3><p>Because - surprise! - now you can. Power users can use the advanced template editor to include multiple feeds in a single mailing, producing significantly more complex and visually appealing (yet still fully automated) marketing communications.</p><p>Well, ok, there's a <i>little</i> extra work, but only what's needed to re-jig your template. Once that's done, it's all automatic from then on.</p><h3>How It Works and How to Test</h3><p>The magic is done by the inclusion of a new custom tag in the advanced template editor, called <font face="courier new,courier">&lt;$Feed$&gt;</font>. I'll run through some examples in this post, and so if you want to play along you'll need an advanced template to experiment with.</p><p>If you don't currently have an advanced template, a great way to create one is to use the easy template editor to create a basic layout, and then flip into the advanced editor so you can roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty with the tags. If you want to test advanced templates safely without affecting production mailings you can <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://blog.feedblitz.com/2007/01/send-in-clones.html">clone your existing newsletter</a> at <b>Newsletters / Settings / Clone Newsletter</b>. Cloning copies everything <i>except</i> subscribers, so you can experiment safely. Once you're done you can simply copy and paste the advanced template you've built back into your main list.</p><p>The <font face="courier new,courier">&lt;$Feed$&gt;</font> tag is briefly documented in the legend area under the advanced editor; the advanced editor itself is available at <b>Newsletters / Settings / Advanced Email Template Editor</b>. <h3>Adding Multiple Feeds to your Template</h3><p>Say you want to build a newsletter with multiple sections, each section sourced from a distinct feed. For example, you might have a classroom newsletter built from the teacher's blog, but you might want to include the latest from the PTA and the principal as well. Or you're a realtor, and you want to include an industry news feed or the latest from your firm's mortgage broker in your mailings. The new tag helps you set this all up.</p><p>Before you start, you will need to know the RSS feed for the other content sources you want to add in.</p><p>Assuming you want your main content up first, you need to find your last <font face="courier new,courier">&lt;$BlogPosting$&gt;</font> tag. Place the cursor where you want the new content to go and type in: <br > <br ><code><$Feed="http://foo.example.com/feed"$></code> <br ><p>Obviously, replace the dummy URL above with the real URL you want to include. This tag starts the inclusion and formatting of your additional content.</p><p>Now, after that, type in just: <br > <br ><code><$Feed$></code> <p>This tells the FeedBlitz template engine where to <i>stop</i> including the external content. You need both; if you forget the ending tag things get chaotic fairly quickly!</p><p>Now all you have to do is, between these two new items, insert standard template text, formatting FeedBlitz template tags etc. Basically, you're creating a template within a template, so you can create a title, add graphics, and if you want to add post content (which you do, otherwise you wouldn't be doing this), you'll need to have a pair of <font face="courier new,courier">&lt;$BlogPosting$&gt;</font> tags inside the feed tags we just added. If you want the layout mirror your current mailings, you can simply copy and paste. Use the preview to see how it all looks as you wrap up.</p><p>You can repeat the process as much as you like (although I think it's better to limit includes to just two or three additional feeds, tops - if you find you're including more you might be better off offering multiple newsletters instead). <h3>What Happens</h3><p>The <font face="courier new,courier">&lt;$Feed$&gt;</font> tags insert the content and then format it according to the code inside them, just like the main template. Used as described above, they will only insert content if there's something in the feed that matches the main newsletter's criteria - so if the class teacher has 2 new articles this week but the school Principal didn't write anything, the Principal's subfeed won't be included in the mailing. By default, posts will be formatted according to the same rules as the main Newsletter, so posts will be truncated and tracked consistently. <p>The main feed - the one defined as the article source in <b>Newsletters / Settings / Content Settings / The Basics</b> - always defines when a new mailing should go out, no matter what changes in the included extra feeds. If you want the Principal's mailings to go out even when the teacher hasn't written new content, you should either use a separate newsletter or a newsflash mailing. By default, this means that elements inside a <font face="courier new,courier">&lt;$Feed$&gt;</font> block will not appear on landing pages such as subscription forms. <h3>&lt;$Feed$&gt; Parameters</h3><p>You can tune the behavior of the included third party feed in your mailing with a couple of optional parameters. <h3>Changing the amount of text to display</h3><p>Say in our hypothetical classroom newsletter that we are including all the teacher's post content in the mailing, but for the sake of brevity we want to limit the included content to just the initial sentences - if folks really want to read all the Principal's musings they'll have to click through. By default, included feeds are formatted the same way as the main content, so we have to change that. It's easy: Simply add the "maxchars" parameter to the opening <font face="courier new,courier">&lt;$Feed$&gt;</font> tag and the post will be limited to that number of characters. FeedBlitz will truncate intelligently at the 350 character mark, backtracking to the nearest white space and preserving formatting and links up to the cut off. I suggest 350 as a good limit to use since 350 typically fetches the first two or three sentences. With this limit in place your opening tag would look like this: <br > <br ><code><$Feed="http://foo.example.com/feed" maxchars=350$></code> <p>You can use the maxchars parameter to include more than the main newsletter if you want, just by making the value big enough (e.g. 100000). Remember, you only change the opening tag. The ending tag (required for each starting tag) is always simply <font face="courier new,courier">&lt;$Feed$&gt;</font>. <h3>Turn your <font face="courier new,courier">&lt;$Feed$&gt;</font> into an email widget!</h3><p>The other parameter you can use is the "count" parameter. You can use it to force the included feed to display the most recent N articles, regardless of their date or time. So this: <br > <br ><code><$Feed="http://foo.example.com/feed" count=5$></code> <p>always includes the most recent 5 articles, no matter what. A side effect of this is that feeds with "count" specified will appear on landing pages, which is just what you want for a sidebar widget. Using the advanced template editor you can add an external feed to the end of the main content - or you can create a sidebar and have your recent tweets, playlists, or comments show up automatically there. If you only include the blog post's title between the included feed's <font face="courier new,courier">&lt;$BlogPosting$&gt;</font> tag then you have a little headline widget going on. Just remember that the widgets you create are static - they are built when the mail is sent, not when it is read. <h3>Examples!</h3><p>The following examples show how to use "FeedBlitz News" as a third party feed inside your advanced template.<ol> <br ><li><b>Basic post content</b> <br ><font face="courier new,courier"> <br >&lt;$Feed=http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz$&gt; <br >&lt;$BlogTitle$&gt; <br >&lt;$BlogPosting$&gt; <br >&lt;$BlogItemTitle$&gt; <br >&lt;$BlogItemBody$&gt; <br >&lt;$BlogPosting$&gt; <br >&lt;$Feed$&gt; <br ></font> <br ><li><b>Truncated text</b> <br ><font face="courier new,courier"> <br >&lt;$Feed=http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz maxchars=350$&gt; <br >&lt;$BlogTitle$&gt; <br >&lt;$BlogPosting$&gt; <br >&lt;$BlogItemTitle$&gt; <br >&lt;$BlogItemBody$&gt; <br >Click to read more... <br >&lt;$BlogPosting$&gt; <br >&lt;$Feed$&gt; <br ></font> <br ><li><b>Recent Headlines Widget</b> <br ><font face="courier new,courier"> <br >&lt;$Feed=http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz count=5$&gt; <br >&lt;$BlogTitle$&gt; <br >&lt;$BlogPosting$&gt; <br ><ul><li><$BlogItemTitle$&gt;</ul>&lt;$BlogPosting$&gt; <br >&lt;$Feed$&gt; <br ></font> <br ></li></ol> <br ><h3>One Newsletter, Many Feeds</h3><p>The great benefit of this new tag is that it allows you to break the "single column" layout typical of many automated newsletters without creating any additional work for you on a regular basis. Just tweak the template and you're up and running, add more content blocks and sidebars, and there's now no reason why your automated newsletter can't be as rich and compelling as any hand built one. It's just that, unlike other newsletter contact services, each mailing takes you zero minutes to create, so you can focus on your mission. <p>FeedBlitz is the only RSS to email service that allows you this flexibility and power. Try it out today at <b>Newsletters / Settings / Advanced Email Template Editor</b>. <br ></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14998258-2560532731549436131?l=blog.feedblitz.com' alt='' ></div></font><p><div style="clear:both;">&copy; FeedBlitz, LLC. 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Contact support and we'll get it to ...</a> <i>by Phil Hollows</i><li><a href="http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/09/since-its-inception-feedblitz-has-been.html?showComment=1263357255995#c7198488191315531990">Doesn't work for me...</a> <i>by Susannah Pryal</i></ul></p> </div>Phil Hollowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387932172896464608noreply@blogger.com2 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14998258.post-86915257912115729782009-09-18T09:18:00.003-04:002009-09-18T09:24:37.308-04:00<font color="#000000" ><Img align="left" border="0" height="1" width="1" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0;" vspace="0" hspace="0" src="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/i/1197288/12oquj/feedblitz">The FeedBlitz delivery metrics report now includes percentages as well as raw numbers for your opens, forwards, bounces, unsubscribes etc. The changes are part of a general effort to give publishers greater insight into their newsletters' performance. <br ><br >The latest changes also allow you click a given schedule class to 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Sorry for any inconvenience.<br ><br >Update - we backfilled completely by the afternoon; services were fully functional early morning. We're reviewing what happened overnight to increase the service's robustness to the class of failure that occurred.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14998258-6296656704779358928?l=blog.feedblitz.com' alt='' ></div></font><p><div style="clear:both;">&copy; FeedBlitz, LLC. 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It is appreciated.</a> <i>by BobN</i><li><a href="http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/09/delays-weds-sept-16.html?showComment=1253105198990#c3894911190615125622">Still can't login to send on-demand mailing -- wha...</a> <i>by Adam J. Fein, Ph.D.</i></ul></p> </div>Phil Hollowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387932172896464608noreply@blogger.com4 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14998258.post-51727949110275201072009-08-28T22:03:00.003-04:002009-08-28T22:15:27.986-04:00<font color="#000000" ><Img align="left" border="0" height="1" width="1" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0;" vspace="0" hspace="0" src="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/i/956757/12oquj/feedblitz">All RSS feeds can now have category feeds automatically, courtesy the FeedBlitz RSS service. Simply add /tag/ and then the category to any FeedBlitz RSS feed and the filter is applied. <br ><ul><li>So here is the main <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://blog.feedblitz.com/">FeedBlitz News</a> feed: <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz">http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz</a></li><li>And here is every post tagged "features": <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz/tag/features">http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz/tag/features</a></li><li>And here is every post NOT tagged "features": <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz/not/features">http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz/not/features</a></li></ul>Easy! 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This kicks in automatically once your FeedBlitz feed grows to be over 512k. <br > <br ><strong>Controlling Feed Size</strong> <br > <br >We've also introduced the ability in your RSS settings for you to manually force this to happen after a given article count. Say you have a long feed for whatever reason, but you want to limit what subscribers see to just the top 10 articles. Now you can - the limit is selected at RSS / Settings (by default it's all articles). Like the size restriction, if you enable it FeedBlitz creates a summary post for articles that didn't make the cut. <br > <br ><strong>Custom Feed Sizes</strong> <br > <br >What, though, if you want to take your feed and split into a "new" posts section and an "old" posts section without the virtual summary bogging down the end? <br > <br >Can do! <br > <br >FeedBlitz has a new URL parameter "limit" which dynamically controls how many posts are presented. It works like this: <br ><ul><li><a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz">http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz</a> is the whole feed, no matter what.</li><li><a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz/limit/10">http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz/limit/10</a> shows the most recent 10 posts.</li><li><a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz/limit/11-">http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz/limit/11-</a> (note the trailing dash) shows the remaining articles.</li><li><a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz/limit/16-20">http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz/limit/16-20</a> shows posts 16 to 20 only.</li></ul><p>You can post these different "limited" feed URLs in your blog's RSS autodiscovery tags to guide visitors to the most appropriate ones. There's no messing around with FeedBlitz config screens, and no summary posts, just the selected articles. The feature works for all FeedBlitz'ed feeds and is available right now.</p><p><strong>Browser-Friendly and Mobile-Friendly Feeds Too</strong></p><p>FeedBlitz automatically produces browser and mobile-friendly versions of your feeds. All these new options work for all the different versions of your RSS, so (for example) <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/12oquj/feedblitz/~http://m.feedblitz.com/feedblitz/limit/10">http://m.feedblitz.com/feedblitz/limit/10</a> shows the top 10 articles only in the mobile-friendly version of the FeedBlitz blog's main RSS feed.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14998258-7902007604011485034?l=blog.feedblitz.com' alt='' ></div></font><p><div style="clear:both;">&copy; FeedBlitz, LLC. 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