More Tips on Blog Subscriptions

Carol Hagen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:31:28 +0000

As promised this is a continuance of “Attracting Blog Subscriptions” highlighting other functions and features of Feedburner. Today we’re spreading the news of your blog (and if you attended my recent seminar Web 2.0 tools for the construction industry or one of my Social Media on a Shoestring Budget workshops , this is a homework assignment). If you have a few subscribers, why not make it easy for them to share it with the friends and co-workers? You can do that easily giving them options to email it or share it on Facebook. The tool is called FeedFlare and it’s found under the optimize tab:

This gives the viewer of your blog feed or site an opportunity to pass it along, make it more popular with Digg and spread your message. Once you choose FeedFlare, select the options you want for your feed or site and it will show you what it will look like to your readers:

You can reorder the choices you selected by dragging the Share on Facebook or Digg it hyperlinks using drag-n-drop. You’re done when you hit SAVE.

The next time your feed goes out, all your subscribers will have these choices to share and you will reap the rewards!

There is also a FeedFlare catalog of other choices to add including english to spanish translations, adding links to your favorite charity, event promotions and Map It
(to Link to a web mapping service display for feed items that have location context associated with them).

Go ahead and experiment. Try out FeedFlare and let me know about your success. We love your comments.

Oh, and since you read the whole blog post, you can add a follow me on twitter flare with these instructions from HyveUp

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Attracting Blog Subscriptions

Carol Hagen — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:07:25 +0000

It’s a funny thing how everyone has a blog but most have a dozen subscribers if that. In business you need to publicize your blog everywhere. I tried promoting it via a plain hyperlink in my email signature but no one clicked on it…that is until I made it an animated subscription. My email signature now automatically cycles through the last five posts. Every email recipient has the opportunity to see the topics I’ve recently discussed and decide then & there whether it interests them. How’d I do it? It’s easy…

First Sign-up for Google Feedburner and enter your blog’s information (title, original address and new feedburner address). and save your feed details. Don’t worry, this is free.
Click on the Publicize tab.
Select the Headline Animator.
Select email signature.
From the dropdown, choose email signature and click next
Follow the instructions in the pop-up based upon your email service. It’s available for Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook Express, Outlook 2003, Yahoo Mail and has workarounds for Gmail and Apple Mail too.

There’s plenty of other great features to help you with optimization and publicizing your blog with Feedburner. I’ll make this a series of how to’s for the next few weeks. If the construction industry starts using collaboration 2.0 (aka social media) for marketing and communication, for sure they will want to learn all these blog tips.

Share your success with us. We like to hear from our readers!

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More Tips on Blog Subscriptions

Attracting Blog Subscriptions