Howto Grow RSS Subscribers Count 600% Overnight?
TheSpot-er on February 1st, 2008This morning I woke up to a pleasant surprise - my RSS Subscribers chicklet displays a 600% of growth OVERNIGHT! And no - it is not a fluke, not a glitch in the system - these are real results.
Going from 500+/- subscribers to 3400+/- might seem like a huge jump but reality is much simpler then you think…
Secret lies within a one small deal that aweber struck with FeedBurner, more specifically they started to report count of email subscribers to your blog feed! I first read about this possibility on Andy Beard’s blog with Yaro expanding on what it would mean to many bloggers who view blogs as perfect marriage between affiliate marketing and blogging.
Well, I’m now enjoying the fruits of my labor 
. I offer subscription to my Weekly Blogging eZine sent if form of digest on my sidebar for quite a while and about a month ago I even completely removed option to subscribe to FeedBurner RSS via email in favor of keeping things simple.
Up until this morning number of my eZine subscribers were never reported and the 600% increase in RSS Subscribers is direct result of the shared information between aweber and FeedBurner. To my best knowledge aweber is the only professional autoresponder service that offer this capability of seamless integration of your blog and email AND reporting the count on your blog for social proof! Need any more reasons to have a pro autoresponder?
I think statement above should be enough to convince you to get an account with aweber and if not - stay tuned. I’ll be releasing a video tutorial that will show exactly how you can marry your blog and aweber and increase your subscribers count!
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Alex, this is really great! Congratulations my friend! I wish you all the best!
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Well done Alex.
It’s always a pleasure when different systems integrate, even if it’s only showing a total. Makes it more transparent. I think this is a great move by Aweber, because it shows they care. Smart.
And you have a solid subscriber base. Congrats!
Regards,
Case
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Thanks guys!
Greatly appreciated
I know that number means nothing really but it does act as a social proof to many and having the option to provide accurate results makes it nice…
I do agree the aweber just made a huge jump on its competition by allowing bloggers to enjoy the best of best worlds.
Alex
Perhaps I can put up my Feedburner Chicklet soon , great post and great choice of titling it
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Veryvery usefull post! Thanks )
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Hi Alex,
That’s a great jump! Exactly what we were hoping to provide when we started work on integrating your AWeber subscriber counts with Feedburner.
Glad you like it!
Justin,
I have always been a vivid fan of aweber :D, now you just gave me a huge boost to help and convince my readers and friends to use your services.
I have always been a supported that a blog and email marketing provide an extremely successful “marriage” when used properly and with new reporting - we get the social proof many bloggers crave so much
Thanks for you work Justin!
Alex
I have only been with Aweber for a few short weeks and already my subscriptions are 50% of my RSS subs
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Great stuff Alex
this is one of the reasons I nudged the Aweber guys a few times on this, because I know how many readers are marketers who know the value of an email list, or are moving over gradually from email to RSS
It will cause some major shockwaves
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I agree Andy,
I think we will start seeing a lot higher numbers on some blogs .. even number shown currently is not accurate as I did blog broadcast semi-manual and number of subscribers is actually quite a bit higher …
I guess now I’m given a reason to switch to a full automated option and show how to get it done, so people can enjoy it as well
Alex
You know what, yes, you did convince me to try out aWeber. I have always postponed when I wanted to go for a real/pro autoresponder and I think now is the perfect time.
Sly from Slyvisions dot Com
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I have been meaning to get an account with Aweber for a while. This just gives me more reason to. I have never had much luck with lists up to now. Any recommendations on getting started.
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Stephan,
My friend Gobala just made a post on using blog broadcasting, this could be a great start with your list:
http://www.easywordpress.com/l.....marketers/
Alex
Great info! A great married with aweber and feedburner directly show you the social count in your blog.
Hi Alex
How is that video going?
I will be really exited to watch the video as I have a problem with trying out new stuff if I not totally understand it - it may be a fear for the unknown
I will be subscribing to your feed reader via email ( I am a huge fan of aweber as well) and would really appreciate your showing of how this can be done.
BTW - is this possible by using the free version of FeedBurner?
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