Comments on: Blog Broadcast: FeedBurner Integration, Click Tracking

By: Nainar

Nainar — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 06:10:14 +0000

Useful, informative site.

By: Robert Dempsey

Robert Dempsey — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:57:16 +0000

I sent in a ticket on this to support and found out the following.

When you first create your blog broadcast, it puts in the following tag:

{!rss_item_description}

To get the email to show the full content of the post, you want to use this tag instead:

{!rss_item_content}

I hope this helps you all.

By: Lic

Lic — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 22:30:53 +0000

Thanks for this amazing post. Can aweber email subscribers added to the feedburner rss chicklet count? If yes then how? I’m unable to find it. Its hard to find these great features. Thanks for your help in advance.

By: Michael R Roberts

Michael R Roberts — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 12:37:50 +0000

First off I wanted to thank AWeber for continuing to improve their service and adding more and more features such as this!

However, I think AWeber needs to improve their implementation and instructions of such features. I find it hard to find these great features and then usually face struggles implementing them into my marketing campaigns.

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:22:23 +0000

For me it was hard to make the integration and still cannot yet make it so that the blog broadcast delivers the full post in the email.

However this is a fantastic feature.

By: Coree Silvera

Coree Silvera — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:41:13 +0000

I’m right there with Donna and Natalie…I want my entire post to be included in the blog broadcast. I realize that the clickthrough will bring more traffic to my site, but I know that I also will have many that will not click through at all.

I know I, personally, don’t like to have to go anywhere else outside my email to read an entire post.

Have you made this possible for WordPress yet or is there a workaround?

Also, it would be much easier for a newbie to customize if we could just click & drag the wanted aspects to our newsletters (rather than the html code that most of us have no clue what it means without researching)

By: becky

becky — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:53:19 +0000

i agree with donna and natalie. i don’t like just seeing the headline. a nice option would be to pick up the first photo of the post too. then it isn’t just words and headlines with links. just some thoughts. i love everything else!

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:56:16 +0000

How do i intergarate over a 1000 list into chicklet. Aweber is awesome !

By: Natalie

Natalie — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:40:52 +0000

I have to say I agree with Donna. I’m personally finding it immensely annoying not to be able to send the full post to my WordPress subscribers, and it seems crazy that such a simple thing is so difficult. I can’t use the "workaround" with the excerpt function as it ruins my teasers on the home page, so there’s no way for me to make it work. PLEASE Aweber sort this out.

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:41:04 +0000

I’m really disappointed to see that you don’t allow any control over whether the full article or just the excerpt gets sent (with WordPress blogs). That’s the really killer for me. I absolutely hate getting RSS via Aweber emails from other sites and I hate the way mine work (the one’s I’ve set up with Aweber). What’s the reason for this? If we’ve set up our RSS feed to show the full post to feed readers than why can’t the same happen to our RSS via email subscribers?

It’s great that we can put whatever text around the post, so for anyone who wants to monetize that’s a great way to have a mailing list without having to do a separate newsletter. Also a full post feed would have any affiliate links or whatever are already in the post right? But I feel as it’s currently implemented, it would be just rude to do any kind of monetization in the email.

I know that there’s a workaround to this where I can use the optional excerpt field, but in my opinion that’s bad practice, that field is intended for an excerpt, not the full post. Some sites may already be using it for SEO or other purposes, and I know for a fact that when I experimented with it on one of my sites it totally messed up the theme. It also adds a lot of redundant data to the database (bad practice), you have to remember to do it, and every time you make a change and update a post you have to remember to make those same changes to the optional excerpt field.

"?totally blow Feedburner Email subscription away?"? Not yet, in my opinion.

Now, simply providing a way to include the full post (like you do with Blogger blogs), THAT would totally blow Feedburner and Feedblitz out of the water.