'Net Features : feedburner

Feedburner Now Offers In the Moment Stats

Pete Prestipino — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:00:00 GMT

Google has rolled out an experimental interface (and some real-time tracking features) for its Feedburner service. This is really the first upgrade since the service was acquired back in 2007.

The new interface according to Google provides real time stats for clicks, views, and podcast downloads. Feed publishers are now able to see what content is driving traffic from feed readers, micro-blogging services like Twitter and other syndication sources in real-time.

Those publishers using the FeedBurner Socialize service are also now able to receive stats on how much traffic feed items are receiving, as well as from feed reading platforms like Google Reader directly.

Google did note that subscriber and reach numbers will still be calculated based on a whole day's worth of requests (based on the traffic received for the prior days) but item statistics now reflect the traffic feed publishers are receiving in the moment. That's right - Feedburner has real time stats.

Change Feedburner Email Subject Lines

Administrator — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:46:00 GMT

Feedburner is, hands down, the dominant RSS managment provider. Since its acqusition by Google however, few changes have been implemented on any notable scale.

That changes today as some new capabilities have been brought to the Email Branding section of FeedBurner's Email Subscriptions feature.

Users of the service are now able to display the title of the latest post in the subject line of their email to subscribers. Feedburner users posting more than one item per day and wanting to provide more descriptive subject lines will also enjoy the update, as they are able to check the "Change Subject..." box and reveal a secondary subject line to use when 2 or more feed posts are delivered in a single email.

To deploy the new feature, simply sign in to your Google Account on FeedBurner and then click your feed's title, then Publicize > Email Subscriptions > Email Branding.

Here is an image of how it will look within your Feedburner account:

Transferring Feedburner Accounts

Pete Prestipino — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:32:00 GMT

Are you a Feedburner user? Well, now you're officialy a Google Feedburner user.

Google is moving the Feedburner application to Google and that means you'll need to transfer your feed(s). Google is planning to have all accounts moved by February 28, 2009, but many people are seeing messages within their account which enable them to shift to the new system immediately.

If you're worried about losing subscribers in the transfer process, don't be. Your RSS readers will continue to receive your feeds. As we've noticed this in our own Feedburner feed, however, it may take up to a week to adjust to internet traffic changes, so the number of subscribers you see reported may be lower for a brief time. Users can log in to the new system at http://feedburner.google.com.

There are two new features now available. The change allows for all publishers with an Adsense account to participate in Adsense for Feeds. Email delivery of RSS content also got an upgrade with improved subscription management. Users can now see activity of their subscribers' status. And some features are being retired. Site Stats (website visitor tracking) and Feedburner Networks will no longer be supported.