Posts tagged ‘RSS’

• January 22nd

  16

  Find out who's scraping you!

  Excerpt: Sometimes you just need to know who is linking to a blog, or even better, your competitor's blog, or who's scraping it, and you'd actually like that data in a format you can use. I thought I'd make a list of the sources you can use to gather link-data from, outside of the "obvious" Yahoo SiteExplore…

• January 10th

  126

  Make the scrapers work for you!

  Excerpt: Some of you had already noticed that I've added a link back to my blog in the footer of articles in my RSS feed, like this: I didn't do that because I thought you guys couldn't find my blog. It was actually a plugin requested by Shoemoney, who wanted to make the scrapers work for him too, by …

• December 20th

  9

  A better way of tracking feed subcribes

  Excerpt: I use FeedBurner, just like anyone else, to track my subscribers. One thing I really like to measure too though, is the number of feed subscribes, as in the act of subscribing. Now you can simply add onclick handlers for Google Analytics or any other stats package to all your feed links, but that me…

• November 9th

  6

  FeedBurner feed counts drop again... (due to FeedFetcher)

  Excerpt: After having a drop last saturday due to issues with Google FeedFetcher, the reader count in the chicklet by FeedBurner has once again dropped hugely (I'm seeing 25-40% drops). As the FeedBurner backend hasn't updated yet there's no way to know what's causing it, but it's not a good thing if such a …

• October 18th

  4

  FeedBurner: MyBrand is not an uncommon use of my feed...

  Excerpt: I was logging into my FeedBurner account this morning to check out my stats, and this is what I saw: Now, I would hope, that my 2 main feed URL's (the first redirects to the second), would NOT be an "uncommon" use of my feeds.... Now Graywolf already found out the hard way that they can't han…

• October 17th

  0

  From RSS? WordPress plugin updated!

  Excerpt: I added in two features: The plugin now automatically tags links within posts to posts and pages within your blog as well, so clicks to these pages will still make you recognize them as RSS subscribers. The plugin is now way stricter in giving someone a cookie. A visitor only get's an RSS subs…

• October 16th

  10

  Shoemoney shows who's boss

  Excerpt: Remember the RSS contest between Jown Chow and Shoemoney I was talking about? Well... The scales kinda tipped: Shoe is now obviously in the lead, and he hasn't even started his RSS Contest yet... He did show an interesting technique in the week though, you got a lightbox (I think) popup if yo…

• October 15th

  13

  Using segmentation in Google Analytics for WordPress RSS readers

  Excerpt: One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while seems to be finally nearing completion. Google Analytics allows you to segment users into custom segments, and there's one segment I've been aching for. I want to be able to segment RSS readers, to be able to see the different browsing behavior o…

• October 14th

  7

  Sorry about that: back to full feeds...

  Excerpt: I somehow changed my feeds to crippled ones, which I hate when others do it, but since I rarely read my own feed, I never noticed... So dear readers: sorry about that, you'll now get full feeds again!…

• October 9th

  1

  John Chow vs Shoemoney: John is in the lead!

  Excerpt: John Chow and Shoemoney are holding a competition between themselves for who can get the most RSS subscribers in a month time. I've created a graph of their progress since the start of the competition using the FeedBurner API, this image will update itself during the competition: Help John Ch…

• October 3rd

  15

  Feeds in the search results?

  Excerpt: There was some discussion on one of the biggest Dutch online marketing sites as to whether RSS feeds were any good for your SEO. I gave a quite lengthy reaction to that in Dutch which I wanted to share with all of you as well. My opinion is that the fact that feeds are showing up in the search re…

• July 28th

  2

  Help me create a list of online RSS readers

  Excerpt: For a Google Analytics WordPress plugin I'm working on, I need a list of all the online RSS readers out there... I know Google Reader and Bloglines, but I was hoping someone could help me with a "complete" list?…

• April 15th

  9

  NoIndex for RSS feeds!

  Excerpt: As regular readers might recall, I wrote a guestpost on SEOEgghead asking for an equivalent of "noindex, follow" for RSS feeds. Now it seems the search engines have been listening a bit, or at least have been thinking in the same direction... In a post about preventing duplicate content with your…

• March 28th

  0

  Sorry, fucked up the feed

  Excerpt: I fucked up my FeedBurner feed redirection, so my feed had not been updating for a few days. Should be all good now!…

• February 26th

  5

  Short note: switched to full feeds

  Excerpt: I've switched to full feeds instead of crippled ones, let me know if you like it!…

• February 17th

  0

  FeedRoll

  Excerpt: Today I finished up my work on FeedRoll, a site which offers a widget to show RSS feeds on your site. I've fixed several things on it, yet the most fun came today. There was a colorpicker on it before that only worked on Internet Explorer 5 and up, and nothing else... Now, those of you who know me, …

• January 1st

  2

  FeedBurner history comparison

  Excerpt: When I was working on my FeedBurner history graph tool, I thought it would be cool to be able to display the growth of a blog relative to some other blog as well, so i came up with the idea of "just" plotting a few other lines next to each other, showing how they performed relatively. Hence my Feed…

• December 28th

  5

  Cool FeedBurner schwag

  Excerpt: I got some nice stuff in the mail today, a gift from FeedBurner's Jessica Graeser, because they liked my FeedBurner graph so much. Check it out: This makes me want to code more cool FeedBurner tools, which is probably exactly what they intended :). I've been working on a feed compare tool, which …

• December 18th

  1

  FeedBurner down?

  Excerpt: As I logged in to my Mint stats this morning, I saw that FeedBurner had registered 0 feedreaders for both yoast.com and www.css3.info. Now I know for a fact that that isn't true, and indeed, one the support forums it seems that more people have this problem. Update: it seems this problem was solv…

• December 4th

  2

  FeedBurner API fun

  Excerpt: I've had some fun with the FeedBurner API in the past days, creating a graphic simulation from a blog's feed-readers history over the past year. It's rather elegant, I think, as it creates graphics which you can easily insert into your pages or posts, and will automatically update each time they're …

• October 6th

  3

  Small new project: SEO Heroes RSS

  Excerpt: I've started a small new project, a page with RSS feeds of major SEO's, on one of the domains I had lying around, SEO Heroes.com... The layout is heavily based on another RSS aggregator site, as you might have noticed. If people like this idea, I might do some funny stuff with it.…

• June 14th

  1

  Short note: FeedBurner

  Excerpt: Just a short note to let you all know that i’ve switched the feed to a FeedBurner feed, it should work automatically, if it does not please tell me in the comments. I’ve switched it because FeedBurner can give some pretty cool stats on feeds, which could be useful in the future.…