Most bloggers have been using Feedburner to manage their RSS feeds since before they got bought out by Google.
What does FeedBurner signing off of Twitter mean?
Not a peep about their plans so far – but FeedBurner has never been the same since Google bought them out.
I knew about that tweet because I happened to be Skyping to Phil Hollows, creator of FeedBlitz about our plans to migrate all FeedBurner accounts. Phil just published his thoughts on FeedBurner Officially Not Listening Any More.
NOW we better wake up and get it done because better safe than sorry. If Google kills FeedBurner all your feeds will quit working, your subscribers will be lost, and you’ll be starting over.
Google already forced us to migrate once and we don’t know what is coming -
so why don’t we all go ahead and migrate to FeedBlitz now?
Many of us have been wanting to migrate to FeedBlitz anyway, but it is so powerful and does so much that we haven’t made that happen yet. What we need is bloggers helping bloggers to make the transition.
As soon as any of us has experience and skills, moving will be easier for all of us. Fortunately, Phil @FeedBlitz now has a Free FeedBurner Migration Manual.
There are also many other resources to make migrating simpler. I will add links to the best of them at the bottom of this post shortly.
Twitter Chat Expert Deborah Anderson @SocialWebCafe is already hard at work migrating GrowMap, setting up FeedBlitz on our new B2C Twitter Chat Services blog and making sure our FeedBlitz setups for SMBcontest and our other JV blogs are properly optimized.
Businesses and blogs MUST be building mailing lists and use social media to drive more subscribers to their lists.
FeedBlitz handles both RSS feeds like FeedBurner
AND social media in one solution.
If you use Feedburner now, check out the FeedBurner Migration Guide from FeedBlitz, our choice as the best premium FeedBurner Alternative.
FEEDBLITZ RESOURCES:
- XLNT >> FeedBurner to FeedBlitz Feature Comparison – multiple excellent charts on how they compare
- FeedBlitz List Building for Bloggers Guide
- VIDEO: How to Set up FeedBlitz RSS Feeds – when you create a new feed you should see the link.
- Coming soon – more links to videos and other useful tips.
AFFILIATE DISCLOSURES:
FeedBlitz links ARE affiliate links. That is NOT why I recommend them. I use them – I want to use them exclusively. I recommend others use them at least for their RSS feeds and seriously consider using them for their email marketing and social media marketing as well.
FeedBlitz provides major advantages – especially to agencies,
consultants, VAs, and others who manage accounts for clients.
If you are a VA or marketing professional, within your own FeedBlitz account you can:
- Create a new account for a client.
- Ask your client’s permission to give you access to their already existing FeedBlitz account
AFFILIATE LINK FAQs
For those unfamiliar with affiliate marketing, this section applies to ANY affiliate program:
If you click on one or more affiliate links and buy FROM THE SAME DEVICE USING THE SAME BROWSER an affiliate may receive a commission for that sale IF you do not clear cookies.
It does not cost the BUYER any more if an affiliate is paid than if they are not.
If you have clicked on more than one affiliate link, some affiliate programs pay the commission to the LAST AFFILIATE LINK aka LAST CLICK and others pay to the FIRST AFFILIATE LINK you clicked on.
If you would like to make sure a particular affiliate receives a commission for your purchase:
- Clear ALL cookies (unless you know exactly which cookies to clear – that may NOT be obvious)
- Click on their affiliate link
- Let them know you used their link so they can see whether they receive credit
This is especially thoughtful when the commissions are monthly recurring like FeedBlitz or AWeber.
I encourage bloggers to use and promote FeedBlitz.
If you run into difficulty, leave a comment
or contact me directly for assistance.
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Mailchimp is always better than feedburner when its compares with its features.
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Twitter: GrowMap
May 13, 2013 at 7:01 am
Hi Selvam,
Mailchimp is not recommended for anyone who uses affiliate links as they have been known to lock down accounts so that you can not get your list out AND when they do that they actually break every single link in every email you EVER sent. See the post Justin Germino @DragonBlogger wrote about that: http://www.dragonblogger.com/mailchimp-account-deactivated-endorsement-lost/
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It’s disappointing to see Feedburner go away and I definitely will be looking for an alternative. I’m not familiar with Feedblitz yet, but lots of the posters here have positive things to say about it so I’ll be checking it out. Can anyone recommend another good alternative in addition to Feedblitz? Thanks.
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Twitter: GrowMap
May 13, 2013 at 7:03 am
Hi Abella,
For RSS, FeedBlitz is the only alternative I’ve seen. Apparently, RSS is not considered very important any more. Many focus more on email list building and not blog readers, but if someone wants to read your blog in a reader you’ll want to move to FeedBlitz.
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Hey Gail,
i have not heard about the Feedburner before.Feedburner will have a negative effect on its followers and they will switch from twitter.
Thanks,
Muhammad
Twitter: supsampust
August 11, 2012 at 9:24 am
I’m sure it’s really important not to rely on one solution and program on a regular basis.
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I have not heard of this until reading this blog post, would be bad news for most of us and a tough decision at this point.
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Twitter: GrowMap
August 10, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Hi Jakub,
Not for me – I’m not waiting around to find out. Already switched GrowMap completely over to FeedBlitz and working on switching every other blog over. As we learn how to use it I’ll publish some how-to use FeedBlitz type posts.
Feedblitz, here I come! Thanks Google for another reason to move from Google type stuff.
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Uncle Google keeps surprising us… after some days there is always a big news related to Google, and this time it’s related to feed burner. Anyway friends it’s always a best policy not to solely depend on a particular thing in life and be prepared with a stepney.
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thanks 4this topic feed burner is nice relationwith visiter to make big conversion in internetmarketing thanks
Twitter: rancorinfotech
August 3, 2012 at 12:09 am
That would certainly be shocking for many bloggers, if Feedburner dies. I think it’s really important to not rely on one solution and service all the time. Rather focus on finding alternatives so that you won’t get over-dependent on it.
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Twitter: socialmediatecs
July 31, 2012 at 11:43 am
Interesting Article! I had not heard of this until I read your blog post. Obviously this will affect a lot of bloggers if they shut Feedburner down. Always better to be safe than sorry!
Thanks for the heads up!
Galen
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July 31, 2012 at 4:34 am
Not happy about Feedburner signing off of Twitter but i am very pleased that Feedblitz is stepping in and filling the void. Getting used to it will take some time but if it does all the things described above spending the time to master it is well worth it. Looking forward to giving it a try.
Twitter: VictorTalha
July 30, 2012 at 11:34 am
What does this all mean for the rest of us? I wonder what is next to change on this thing we call the internet!
Twitter: DAMGFLORIDA
July 30, 2012 at 3:45 am
What is wrong with Google lately? They are changing so much so fast. It seems like to me they are trying to get rid of SEO companies. The problem is that they are making such radical changes so fast that the search results are a mess. One example is that they have California attorneys coming up in Miami!?!
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Twitter: GrowMap
July 30, 2012 at 9:56 pm
Hi Peter,
If you’re running AdWords ppc ads make sure you’re not PAYING for your California attorneys to be shown in Miami. That has happened in the past. Google’s long term goal is to eliminate small business. Their CEO announced that years ago and every update moves us in that direction – but most refuse to believe anything but warm fuzzy thoughts about Google.
Twitter: saif_ullah_butt
July 29, 2012 at 10:03 pm
Hi Gail
Well I think so going away feedburner will have a great impact on twitter because a large amount of content gets automatically uploaded by feedburner.So.much users of twitter will move….
Thanks
SAIF
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Twitter: VictorTalha
July 30, 2012 at 11:36 am
Thanks, @Saif_Ullah_Butt
That makes sense… Lemme ask you, what are you going to do, as far as your feed goes? Thanks.
Twitter: saif_ullah_butt
July 28, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Hi gail,
I do not think that there will be any impact to twitter, you have given a good alternative and Will it be working properly with twitter ?
Also is this feed burner will be applicable to our website ?
Thanks
Marc
Twitter: GrowMap
July 28, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Hi Marc,
Although that wasn’t really what I was addressing in this post, FeedBurner going away would impact Twitter because so much content is automatically feed into Twitter accounts. If all that content stopped all at once the volume of tweets and traffic on Twitter would drop as well. This would have a very large impact.
If you have an RSS feed most likely it uses FeedBurner and you should strongly consider moving it. There are other ways to set up RSS feeds so you would have to check. Look at the link your RSS icon goes to and see if it has FeedBurner as part of the URL.
All blogs should have a feed and FeedBlitz is really the only strong alternative other than creating your own directly. Some used Yahoo Pipes somehow, but both Google and Yahoo have a penchant for constantly changing and eliminating essential services so I would stay away from both of them
FeedBlitz also manages social media marketing and email marketing and is the most viable alternative to AWeber. It is more comples because it does more so some may choose to stay with AWeber; however, FeedBlitz does NOT charge for invalid or duplicate subscribers and last I heard AWeber did so you want to keep your list clean if you use them.
Twitter: saif_ullah_butt
July 29, 2012 at 8:57 am
Ohh, I read the post again and got the meanings.
Thank you for your good reply.
Marc
FeedBlitz sounds like an excellent option. I’m gonna have to implement it on my blog.
Twitter: GrowMap
July 27, 2012 at 5:27 pm
Phil over at FeedBlitz has accomplished so much with it that we should all be using it. It is so powerful it is going to take some time to learn – but it will definitely be worth it.
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Good for you. I left FeedBurner for feedblitz about two years ago. Haven’t looked back.
Twitter: twitter.com/MissesDressy
July 27, 2012 at 11:50 am
does that mean all of my data will be lost? Is it going to be transferred to another platform? what I don;t understand is I have always saved my information, and update it about once a week. Can anyone here pls advise me? thank you
Twitter: GrowMap
July 27, 2012 at 5:24 pm
Hi Janina,
No, you won’t lose your data because FeedBurner doesn’t actually have the data itself. Your actual site is stored on a server at your hosting company.
What FeedBurner and FeedBlitz do is allow people to subscribe to your blog and get notified when a new post is published or read new posts in a feed reader.
I do not see a feed linked from your site or your blog, but you may have one. Usually the links from the little orange icons like the one you can see next to the word subscribe at the top of this blog link to your feed, but yours only link to your blog – the links point to http://blog.missesdressy.com/.
You do want to get a feed if you don’t have one because that is how your visitors know to come back and visit you again.
When you comment in blogs that have a field for your Twitter username only put @MissesDressy and not the whole URL or the link to your Twitter profile won’t work and we can not easily edit that to fix it for you.
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Twitter: twitter.com/MissesDressy
August 15, 2012 at 9:11 am
hey there, thanks for the response, glad to have you give me advice.
Actually, I checked my links and they go directly to where I want them to go but I am glad you check out the blog. How did you like it?
Regarding the FeedBurner and FeedBlitz: I am happy they don’t have my data on their server cause that would have tremendous consequences.
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