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What are Blog Broadcasts?
Despite the many advantages of blogging, there is a problem with it. As much as we'd hope our readers would bookmark our blogs and frequently check for new articles, as a strategy for building a readership base, relying on this method will not bring the most success because it relies on constant ...- How Do I Create a Blog Broadcast?
Building a strong readership by sending your blog articles straight to the inbox of subscribers is simple. Just set up a blog broadcast following these steps: Watch a Video Share This Video Step by Step Instructions Under the Messages tab, select Blog Broadcast. Once on the Blog Broadcas ...
- How Can I Use AWeber With My Blog?
Blogs are one of the fastest growing means of publishing content on the internet. They present publishers and businesses to quickly and easily post content to a website. But just like any web page, someone could take a look at the content, find it interesting, then leave the page never to return ...
- How Do I Integrate My Wordpress Blog With AWeber?
By integrating AWeber with WordPress, you can build a strong readership by providing your readers with the service of receiving articles in a blog email newsletter. The integration requires two steps: Publish a Web Form to Your WordPress Blog Set Up the AWeber Blog Broadcast Feature The inst ...
- How Do I Schedule When My Blog Broadcasts Are Sent?
Whether you'd like to send your email updates from your blog or website sent out on a specific day of the week, date of the month, once a specific number of articles has been posted, or a combinations of some of these options, flexible options are available for your campaigns. Email newsletters ...
- Where Do I Find the RSS Feed URL?
In order to have your blog articles sent by email using our Blog Broadcast feature, you need to get a hold of the URL address of the RSS feed of your blog. This can prove to be a bit difficult without a little guidance. To help you to find this address, we've put together the instructions belo ...
- What is RSS?
RSS stands for "Real Simple Syndication" which is a specific type of file format that can be automatically read by News Readers that subscribers have installed on their computers or access online. Many websites publish an RSS feed that a visitor can add to their news reader. When a new item is p ...
- Why Are My Old Blog Articles Appearing In Broadcasts?
After setting up your blog broadcast, you may notice that messages created for articles you've previously published appear on the Broadcast page of your account. This may come as a surprise, since you may wish for only new articles to be sent in email newsletters to your readers. If this is the ...
- How Often Do We Check for New Items?
Currently all RSS feeds are checked for updates every 3 hours or less.
- Are Templates Available for Blog Broadcasts?
Yes, we offer over 103+ pre-designed HTML and text templates for use with your blog broadcasts. These templates come in many different designs and color schemes and are easily loaded with the click of a single button.
- How Are New Story Items Detected?
Each new item published to an RSS feed has a unique URL. When you set up a Blog Broadcast, we use each item's unique URL to define a new story. If a previously published story has its URL changed on your publishing side, it may potentially cause the story to be sent out again as a broadcast. Be ...
- How Can I Send Entire Posts in My Blog Newsletters?
In order to have your complete article content shown in your newsletter, you may need to make an adjustment. In your blog newsletter template where the merge word {!rss_item_description} appears simply replace it with {!rss_item_content} {!rss_item_content} will merge the full HTML and images f ...
- How Do I Test My Blog Broadcast?
When you have just created a new blog broadcast, or you have made a few tweaks to an existing one, it's a good idea to test it. Testing a blog broadcast will populate the template you have set up with information from your most recent blog posts, giving you a quick way to see how different style ...
- How Do I Integrate My TypePad Blog With AWeber?
Integrating AWeber's Blog Broadcast feature with your TypePad blog requires two steps: Publish an AWeber sign up form to your blog's sidebar Set up the Blog Broadcast feature for your blog How to Publish a Form to Your TypePad Blog's Sidebar Your readers need an opportunity to sign up to rece ...
- What Do Variables in Blog Broadcast Templates Do?
Once you've loaded a template when creating or editing a blog broadcast, you may notice some variables or codes that appear in the subject and in both the plain text and HTML message boxes: To put it simply, these variables fill the content from your blog articles into the blog newsletters sent ...
- Why Is My Blog Broadcast Inactive?
The newsletters generated by the Blog Broadcast feature rely on the use of an RSS feed for content. If this RSS feed is inaccessible for at least 4 days, the Blog Broadcast will be deactivated and an email notification will be sent to help resolve any problems and restore the sending of blog new ...
- What RSS Formats are Supported?
Our Blog Broadcast tool is compatible with: RSS 0.9 through RSS 1.0 RSS 1.0's modules RSS 2.0
- Why Isn't Content Appearing in my Blogger Newsletters?
Because Blogger uses the "Atom" format instead of the standard RSS 1.0 or 2.0 for its feeds, it is not fully compatible with the Blog Broadcast feature. As a result, broadcast messages created using the feature with a Blogger blog will contain a clickable link to the full article, but will not i ...
- Can I Use FeedBurner Feeds to Make a Blog Broadcast?
Yes! You can use FeedBurner feeds with AWeber's Blog Broadcaster. By doing so, you'll be able to boast higher subscriber numbers in your FeedBurner chicklets — we report the number of email subscribers you have to FeedBurner, and they aggregate those with your RSS subscribers! Blog Broadc ...
- How Can I Avoid Having My Blog's Email Newsletter Sent on Weekends?
If you prefer not to send messages on weekends, you can set your blog's email newsletter not to go out on these days. Just set up your the blog broadcast to send a digest of your blog articles, following the instructions in our Knowledge Base on sending on selected days.
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