How To Enhance Your Blog

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Posted by Marc Kline

Why should you publish a blog?

Blogs are a great, easy way to publish information in a timely manner. As a result, their popularity has skyrocketed.

However, to make blogs a really useful tool, you have to get people to come back and read regularly.

It’s just as true for your blog as it is your website that someone may take a look at what you’ve published and say to themselves, “This is interesting,” only to disappear, never to visit again.

Prevent this from happening to your blog by letting people know when you’ve published something new.

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Keep Your Blog Readers Coming Back

RSS is offered by many blogging services as a way to syndicate information, but currently RSS is still a little too advanced for most web users.

We offer our RSS Feed Broadcaster to help our customers to syndicate their blog articles to nearly anyone interested. This feature converts your articles from a standard RSS feed into an e-mail template to send to your subscribers as your blog is updated.

All your subscribers need is an e-mail address. You just need to add a standard AWeber sign up form to your blog and set up your feed broadcaster.

How to set up this feature:

First, you can review the video tutorial we offer.

If you have any questions, you can refer to the FAQ article we’ve published, and feel free to contact our customer support team. As with any aspect of our service, our team is fully competent with this feature and is here to support the set up of your feed broadcaster.

You’ll notice that we use this feed broadcaster feature for our own blog, with a sign up form on the right side of this page. Please feel free to try it out and subscribe for regular updates on this blog, including useful tips and suggestions for optimizing your e-mail campaigns.

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18 Responses

David G
November 15th, 2006 at 6:19 pm

Hi Marc,

Great post, we use Aweber in conjunctino with our blog and it really helps to keep the readers coming back - you can literally see the traffic spikes after an update is sent.
Nana
November 20th, 2006 at 1:14 pm

I went thru’ your rss broadcaster video tutorials and it’s really fantastic. seems I will soon start to use it. wait I will soon really sign up for aweber.It’s such intuitive. keep up with it.
Thomas Hunter
November 21st, 2006 at 12:39 am

What a great service to offer to your subscribers. Keeping my customers informed about blog updates is another great way to get them back to my site.

Thanks again…
azwan
November 21st, 2006 at 1:39 pm

I have tried this RSS broadcast. Need to post really high quality content to blog. People will unsubscribe if we post low quality ones.

I prefer to manually broadcast whenever there is a very important/interesting posts and can also combine few post in one broadcast msg
Phil de Fontenay
November 24th, 2006 at 9:02 am

Wow! I didn’t even know you had this kind of service

I better spend more time getting around the interface
to see what else I am missing out on.

Phil
Mike Humphreys
November 25th, 2006 at 3:29 pm

Does Aweber have any plans to offer a WordPress plug-in for Aweber subscriber opt-in boxes? I think it would be an awesome feature and a huge time-saver as a blog owner.

Thanks
Tom Kulzer
November 27th, 2006 at 11:32 am

Mike,

We already include a web form generator which makes it point and click simple to insert a form to any website, including a Wordpress blog.

Video Tutorial:
http://www.aweber.com/camtasia/webformgenerator/webform_ad.htm

There is a 3rd party Wordpress plug-in that I’m aware of which adds an AWeber form to a blog, but I can’t speak specifically to how it functions as we haven’t tested it ourselves. Use at your own risk.

http://www.karlwarren.com/blog/2006/11/07/free-wordpress-plugin/
David
November 27th, 2006 at 8:26 pm

Everyone - I followed the simple to understand tutorial and had a web form set up on my blog in no time flat - plus I also put a "fade in" form as well, so if people miss the in-line webform, they can’t miss the fade in subscription form.

Keep those Aweber blog posts coming on your terrific service features!

PS: you all in tech support are great! thanks for the great support!
Tony Marciante
November 29th, 2006 at 2:51 am

Love the video explanations, and today, after signing up for aweber a day ago, I get an actual phone call from the company!! I’m already impressed, and have set up an auto sign in form on my site. I’m already seeing that I’ll love awebber.

Thanks!
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C.J.
March 19th, 2007 at 10:17 pm

Is there any way to combine this blog broadcast with another list? I already have people subscribing to my website (and newsletter). Since I’d like to use my blog posts as my newsletter, it’d be great if I could direct the blog broadcast to use that list rather than creating yet another list. Any way to do that?

C.J.
Marc Kline
March 20th, 2007 at 8:32 am

C.J.,

If you add a ‘Blog Broadcast’ to any of your lists, it will create broadcast messages for you that can be sent just like any other broadcasts you create in the list.

That said, you can certainly add one to any of your existing campaigns.
Julie Wolf
May 16th, 2007 at 4:29 am

Hi

I need to make a Blog Broadcast and do not know the RSS address for Wordpress. Can anyone help here?
Marc Kline
May 16th, 2007 at 9:11 am

Julie,

If you scroll all the way down to the bottom of your blog, you’ll find an "Entries (RSS)" link. The URL that link points to is the RSS feed address for your blog.

If you have any further issues or questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch with our support team.
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