I’m slow to some things, believe it or not. I am just getting to testing out Feedburner’s Subscribe by Email option on RSS feeds. What’s that mean? It means that you can now subscribe to my blog using your email account rather than using RSS feeds and feed readers, if you so desire.
Of course, I’ve subscribed to myself doing this, so we’ll see what I get once I hit the publish button on this post. Eventually, my idea is to offer this service on my library’s website. Let’s see what happens!
Andrew says
David,
I’ve set up this feature on all of the blogs I manage and it seems to work really well. How would you set up your library’s website to do this as well?
Andrew says
David,
I’ve set up this feature on all of the blogs I manage and it seems to work really well. How would you set up your library’s website to do this as well?
John says
Self-subscribing by email gives me a backup copy of my posts, just in case, you know.
John says
Self-subscribing by email gives me a backup copy of my posts, just in case, you know.
davidleeking says
Andrew – I’m thinking we’ll set up a library feedburner account, then dump our 30 feeds into it and then embed the email code on the appropriate pages.
John – what a cool idea – I hadn’t even thought about using it that way!
davidleeking says
Andrew – I’m thinking we’ll set up a library feedburner account, then dump our 30 feeds into it and then embed the email code on the appropriate pages.
John – what a cool idea – I hadn’t even thought about using it that way!
Talking Books Librarian says
I use Feedburner email subscriptions on my blog and have had good success with it. I’d say about 1/3 of my readers are subscribed via email. Let’s face it, some people don’t use Bloglines, Google Reader, etc…. some people prefer to get blog subscriptions via email. The only problem I had was for about 3 days when Feedburner dropped all my email subscriptions. But then they came back a few days later – some glitch with their system I think.
-Talking Books Librarian at http://talkingbookslibrarian.blogspot.com
Talking Books Librarian says
I use Feedburner email subscriptions on my blog and have had good success with it. I’d say about 1/3 of my readers are subscribed via email. Let’s face it, some people don’t use Bloglines, Google Reader, etc…. some people prefer to get blog subscriptions via email. The only problem I had was for about 3 days when Feedburner dropped all my email subscriptions. But then they came back a few days later – some glitch with their system I think.
-Talking Books Librarian at http://talkingbookslibrarian.blogspot.com
brooke says
hi,
i’ve got feedburner for my blog, but can’t figure out how to change how much text is sent in an email. i don’t want my whole blog post emailed, only part of it. do you know how to change this?
thanks!
brooke
brooke says
hi,
i’ve got feedburner for my blog, but can’t figure out how to change how much text is sent in an email. i don’t want my whole blog post emailed, only part of it. do you know how to change this?
thanks!
brooke
davidleeking says
Hi Brooke. There isn’t a way to do that using Feedburner. Feedburner is more of an on/off service – it only sends the whole post.
I think some bloggers might use electronic newsletter services to send just parts of a blog post, with a link to the whole thing. Hope that helps!
davidleeking says
Hi Brooke. There isn’t a way to do that using Feedburner. Feedburner is more of an on/off service – it only sends the whole post.
I think some bloggers might use electronic newsletter services to send just parts of a blog post, with a link to the whole thing. Hope that helps!
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Katie says
Hi. I’m having a large problem learning how to do the “subscribe to my blog via e-mail” on feedburner…can you help? [email protected]
Katie says
Hi. I’m having a large problem learning how to do the “subscribe to my blog via e-mail” on feedburner…can you help? [email protected]
Desmond Macedo says
Brooke, hope this is not late, but go to your blog Dashboard and click ‘Settings’, under this click ‘Site Feeds’. here you will find an option, ‘Allow Blog Feeds’ how much do you wish to send Full / Short . Click Short
desmond
Desmond Macedo says
Brooke, hope this is not late, but go to your blog Dashboard and click ‘Settings’, under this click ‘Site Feeds’. here you will find an option, ‘Allow Blog Feeds’ how much do you wish to send Full / Short . Click Short
desmond
Janice - Fitness Cheerleader says
Feedburner's email service works with your RSS settings. If you only want to email an exerpt then you will need to change your RSS settings in your wordpress admin.
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really?
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eusof says
what is the blog you want to subscribe to doesnt have a feedburner? how do i go about that.
Your advice would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
eusof says
typo.
Correction: What if* the blog…
davidleeking says
Sure – most likely the blog WILL have an rss feed (whether or not it also
has a Feedburner version of that feed). Look for the RSS radio icon (orange
or blue) in the address bar of your browser, or the blog site might point
out the link (usually by saying “subscribe to this blog” or similar
language).
Then simply click the link/radio icon, and subscribe using google
reader/bloglines/your favorite rssw feed reader.
Hope this helps!
David Lee King
davidleeking.com – blog
davidleeking.com/etc – videoblog
twitter | skype: davidleeking
eusof says
Thank you Dave. i tried that. however i dont really like subscribing via google reader.
I was more interested in getting email updates from feedburner like when we subscribe via email. Still wondering how to go about it. Advice?
davidleeking says
Hmm… that's harder to do. Some email clients will subscribe to feeds – new
versions of Microsoft exchange, for example, does this. Also, there might be
some services that you can “bookmark” a website, then get emailed when
there's a change on that page (these don't always work well though).
Otherwise, it's pretty tough to do without using a feed reader or just
periodically visiting the site to see if anything changed.
David Lee King
davidleeking.com – blog
davidleeking.com/etc – videoblog
twitter | skype: davidleeking
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