Urging (begging) you to switch...
Okay...so I usually don't try to manipulate anyone's behaviour...but in this case, I am preparing for a really big move (over to Wordpress in the next month or so...yay!) and I don't want to lose too many readers in the process.
I noticed that there are about 4x as many people (!) pulling from various atom and rss feeds than from my Feedburner feed. So, in order to make it really simple to switch to Feedburner for my upcoming transition, I want to highlight to you that the following feeds suck:
http://www.horsepigcow.com/roguereport/atom.xml
http://www.horsepigcow.com/roguereport/rss.xml
https://www.blogger.com/atom/11380990
http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11380990/posts/full
(I think that is it...if you have something else, please alert me)
And the following feed rocks:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/horsepigcowLifeUncommon
With my Feedburner feed, you will get newly pimped goodness like:
I noticed that there are about 4x as many people (!) pulling from various atom and rss feeds than from my Feedburner feed. So, in order to make it really simple to switch to Feedburner for my upcoming transition, I want to highlight to you that the following feeds suck:
http://www.horsepigcow.com/roguereport/atom.xml
http://www.horsepigcow.com/roguereport/rss.xml
https://www.blogger.com/atom/11380990
http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11380990/posts/full
(I think that is it...if you have something else, please alert me)
And the following feed rocks:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/horsepigcowLifeUncommon
With my Feedburner feed, you will get newly pimped goodness like:
- Screenshots and reviews of new apps I try when I post them on Flickr (as well as the occasional 'cool website' I point to that way). These come in a couple of times per week...and believe me, some of them are superfly.
- A daily link round-up (from Ma.gnolia) of relevant bookmarks I've found that range from interesting new apps to marketing tips to intriguing articles.
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The problem is that in many cases, I don't *want* to see the photos and links mixed in. If I want to see someone's photos, I subscribe to their flickr photos, and if I want their links I subscribe to their del links. Having an option to see *only* someone's written blog posts is important to me. :(
(looking forward to seeing you at "camp" this month, btw!)
I know...but I'm not pushing all of my photos...only the 'photoblogging' photos.
And I'm not on del.icio.us...and instead of posting a list of links (which I've started to do) once per day, I'm letting my feedburner do it. Less copy and paste.
I'm not going to be one of those ridiculous post everything to my feed people. ;)
You need to add a redirect for the feed to feedburner. I subscribed aeons ago to the atom.xml feed and it doesn't appear to redirect to your feedburner feed.
I'm too smashed right now to write how to do this in bloglines but you can tell bloglines that your other feeds are all dupes of the feedburner feed through the "My Account" tab.
Thanks e.p.c.
That only helps me aggragate in Bloglines, though...which only accounts for about 1/4 of my subscribers. :(
Man. Standards really really really need to happen. A person should be able to go to a website, subscribe and, in liz's case, have the choice to also pull in the other 'items' related to that person or not.
Subscribe to a person...hmmmm...
You must try Movable-Type instead. MV is highly customizable, compared to wordpress. (I speak from experience).
If you want people to subscribe to only the feedburner feed, aside from the redirects you can put in place, you should also change the template for your site (regardless of the current blogger setup or the new wordpress setup) to point to the feedburner feed and solely the feedburner feed.
Currently your blogger generated pages include these links in the <head> section:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon (Atom 0.3)" href="http://www.horsepigcow.com/roguereport/atom.xml" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon (RSS 2.0)" href="http://www.horsepigcow.com/roguereport/rss.xml" />
which is what a number of feedreaders, including bloglines, use to determine what the feed is for your site.
You need to delete these lines and replace them with:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon (Feedburner)" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/horsepigcowLifeUncommon">
That will catch new subscribers.
The redirects are something like:
Redirect 301 /roguereport/atom.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/horsepigcowLifeUncommon
Redirect 301 /roguereport/rss.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/horsepigcowLifeUncommon
to be placed in a .htaccess file in the root directory of your web site.
hi tara,
I got tangled up in this problem enough that I got featured in the Feedburner Publisher Buzz section a while back:
http://blogs.feedburner.com/buzz/archives/2005/09/chad_dickerson.html
My situation was slightly different but the same in principle. e.p.c. is right on the money -- doing the 301 redirects in .htaccess and fixing your header section will fix you up on Bloglines and everywhere else, but it'll take a few days.
(here's another part of the story for the sake of completeness: http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2005/10/02/warning-bloglines-subscribers-some-feed-changes/)
feedburner does indeed rock!
Ah yes...but you and e.p.c. are sane and don't use Blogger...you see...I cannot replace that damned code! ;)
Darnit.
Chris is going to try and help me. I figure it will all be o.k. when I switch to the land of Wordpress. Yay for their CSS-changing and new masking abilities.
Switched. And congrats on the decision to move to WordPress. You won't regret that. I haven't worked with Blogger, but if I can be of any help on the WordPress end of things, just shout out.
Argh...blogger.
Ok, well, you can't delete the <link> element that blogger places there (unless you remove the <$BlogMetaData$> from the template, I'm not sure what else that affects), but you can add your own <link> element pointing to feedburner (perhaps adding "Please please please I beg of you subscribe to this feed" in the title).
You should be able to do the .htaccess thing as well, perhaps ftp'ing it to the horsepigcow.com site (it doesn't seem to be run by blogger so you must be set up to publish by ftp'ing to the site).
Hey Tara -
EPC is right, you can remove the <$BlogMetaData$> tag from your blogger template, and replace it with your own auto-discovery code (which would point to FeedBurner's version of the feed). Additionally, you could upload (actually, make Chris do it, and tell him I said so!) a simple .htaccess file that reads:
Redirect 301 /atom.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/horsepigcowLifeUncommon
and once that's in your site's root, everyone subscribed to the Blogger feed is auto-magically redirected to us. One caveat: if that's the feed you have us monitoring, then Chris will need to add a line to that .htaccess file which lets us through and redirects everyone else to us... someone documented this on our forums here:
http://forums.feedburner.com/viewtopic.php?p=854#854
That same redirection magic should work just fine for anyone who's subscribed to any variation of your feed at horsepigcom.com/* - so it should go a long way to consolidating everyone on to your preferred feed (that's us, and don't think we don't love you for it).
I know this sounds like a lot of work, but that's for Chris to worry about. ;)
--Rick
VP, Publisher Services
FeedBurner
please go back to full posts in your feed. partial posts blow.
I hate partial posts, too. I'm not sure what happened, but it wasn't something I did on purpose.
Effing technology. Grrrrrrr.
Hi Tara,
Zut Alors! I had full posts before (I think it was www.horsepigcow.com/roguereport/rss.xml), but now that I followed your advise and switched to feedburner, i'm getting only partial posts. :(
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