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| Unique Visitors: 27 |
| Total Unique Visitors: 1094216 |
| Visitors Out: 2004 |
| Total Visitors Out: 10989 |
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| Early morning service interruptions 9/18 |
| 2008-09-18 07:23:00 |
We had some infrastructure issues overnight that has delayed mailings and made the site unresponsive; it's now been fixed and mailings are going out as fast as we can push them.
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| FeedBlitz Publisher Survey |
| 2008-08-19 15:29:00 |
Just a quick FYI that we're running a one-time survey and profile update of FeedBlitz publishers. There's a simple form to complete to update basic biographical data (all covered by our privacy policy of course), along with the chance for you to tell us more about what you want to see added or changed in the service. The results are confidential and, once the form has been filled, it goes away to its happy place and won't bother you again.
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| New Feature: Newsletters from Protected Wordpress Blogs |
| 2008-08-15 15:29:00 |
Good news for wordpress.com users who want to offer email newsletter (and IM and Twitter) subscriptions to their protected blogs. FeedBlitz can now access the RSS feed for protected WordPress blogs, provided that you give FeedBlitz a valid user name and password, of course.FeedBlitz has long supported what's called HTTP authentication for password-protected RSS feeds, and this works well for sites that use it (TypePad password protected blogs, for example, can be accessed this way). But this approach doesn't work on wordpress.com blogs that are private, since WordPress uses a web-based login page to protect both the blog and its RSS feed. Before, FeedBlitz could only send a message relating to the login page itself - not useful. Now, FeedBlitz can authenticate via the web too. So wordpress...
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| Aug 15 Issues - updated |
| 2008-08-15 08:04:00 |
We seem to have a database problem holding things up; we're investigating.Update: Everything was back on an even keel by 9:45 am eastern this morning; the web site is functioning normally and outstanding mail seliveries are being caught up pronto.
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| NOINDEX |
| 2008-08-14 07:51:00 |
One of the features I personally like about FeedBlitz is the automatic creation of an online preview of your newsletter. It show subscribers what a mail from you will look like, and so encourages subscriptions because now they can be confident that it's content they're going to like. There's even a call to subscribe right at the top. The preview takes into account all your newsletter settings, so if you only show the first 350 characters (say) from each post in your mail, then the online preview also only has the first 350 characters.Now, if you the publisher has the online preview link on your site - and many (but not all) do - then the search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN et al.) will follow the link to the preview, index it and add it to their databases. This is what a search engine does ...
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| Join the FeedBlitz LinkedIn Publisher Group |
| 2008-08-06 08:09:00 |
I've personally been a little neglectful of my LinkedIn network recently, something I redressed with a vengeance over the weekend. And now I've set up a group for FeedBlitz publishers at LinkedIn, so you can all network together and expand your personal networks by dint of having FeedBlitz in common.So, if you're a FeedBlitz publisher and you'd like to join our LinkedIn group, follow this link.Talking of LinkedIn, a fabulous way to keep in touch with your LinkedIn network activity is to use FeedBlitz to mail you a daily update! This works for anyone, regardless of whether you're a FeedBlitz publisher or not:1) Log in to LinkedIn.2) In the left hand menu bar, click "Home" if you're not already there.3) Click the iddy biddy orange RSS icon to the right of "Network Updates."1) Go directly to...
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| Custom Domain FAQs |
| 2008-08-05 12:45:00 |
We've had some good clarifications, questions and concerns raised over the new custom domain name feature we've added; this FAQ addresses, well, the most frequent ones.Q: Isn't it true that custom domains aren't really domains?A: Well, yes, technically speaking, "custom domains" are actually subdomains of feedblitz.com, that's true. Our custom domains are like having a dedicated URL for your newsletter at FeedBlitz. They're just the same as having a blog "XYZ" at xyz.blogger.com or xyz.wordpress.com or xyz.typepad.com - all these XYZ's are subdomains of the relevant site (and, dollars to doughnuts, all these hypothetical sites will be run by different people writing about XYZ, whose names are XYZ, or who think that "XYZ" is just a darned cool name for a blog - and the non-uniqueness of "XY...
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| New Feature: Private Label Custom Domains |
| 2008-08-04 13:57:00 |
Last week I gave our premium publishers a few days' head start on a new capability to be announced this week. It being next week now, time to take the wraps off Private Label Custom Domains.Custom domains are fully functional micro-sites from FeedBlitz that make life simpler for your subscribers by simplifying access to your newsletters and associated functionality online, and reinforce your branding via the domain itself and your custom template.Incoming!And a quick heads up here - if you haven't already heard from me about this, you will. Reason is that we've reserved domains for all our existing publishers, but these reservations all expire on August 10th. It's only fair and just that everyone has the chance to lock in their own brand names before they expire (and are available to all a...
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| July 2008 Monthly Update |
| 2008-08-03 20:29:00 |
My, it's been a long time since I've written a monthly update. Yikes! So time to catch up and kick things back into gear here.In the last six months (yes, it really has been that long), FeedBlitz circulation has grown by nearly a million subscribers, or about 20%. That's actually a little less on a month by month basis than least year (on average), but that metric doesn't tell the whole story.What has changed significantly over the last 6 months is the volume of messages FeedBlitz sends. back in October last year, FeedBlitz sent 32 million messages. In January, that figure had risen to just under 42 million messages. Last month, July, FeedBlitz sent 65.4 million messages, up over 50% in the last six months; in other words publishers are using FeedBlitz much more than before.And so a lot of...
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| Pre-Announcement Opportunity for Premium Publishers |
| 2008-07-31 14:24:00 |
Well, it's been a little quiet around here of late, but rest assured we've been working hard here at FeedBlitz Central - to the point where we're going to announce some interesting new capabilities starting next week.By way of thanking those publishers who have upgraded to our paid services, I'm giving them a head start on using these features, starting today. I'll be writing directly to all our premium publishers shortly with more information on our new service and how to get in ahead of the curve.If you like mysteries and can't wait for next week, I'll also say that the new capability is visible in the FeedBlitz UI right now. You'll just have to hunt for it...Meanwhile, premium publishers should keep a beady eye on their inboxes for a missive from Yours Truly, and I'll be more active on the blog starting tomorrow with a monthly update.
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