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[26 May 2009 | One Comment | 185 views ]
Let Your RSS Subscribers Choose: Full Text or Summary?

WordPress automatically sets up two feeds for you: your posts feed and your comments feed. You have a choice on the posts feed to publish the full text of your post, or a summary. Which do you choose?
Some of your readers may prefer full text feeds, while others prefer a summary. So which group do you defer to? Publishing a summary feed forces people to click through to your site to read the entire post, which of course, helps your traffic stats, but might irk some of your readers. …

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[16 Feb 2009 | 11 Comments | 683 views ]
Bye-Bye Feedburner, Hello Google

If you have a Feedburner account for managing your RSS feeds, it’s time to pack your bags and move over to Google.

Google has owned Feedburner for awhile now, but there’ve been no major changes required or put upon us. Now, however, we have to move our feeds over to Google officially by February 28, 2009, or they’re gonna do it for us. Now, normally, I’d be thinking, “Hmmm…do it myself, or you’ll do it for me? Ok – go ahead – do it for me!” But not this time.

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[20 Nov 2008 | 7 Comments | 1,167 views ]
13 Plugins Make My WordPress World Go ‘Round

In honor of Thursday Thirteen, here are 13 WordPress plugins that I use and love. What are YOUR favorite plugins?

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[16 Nov 2008 | One Comment | 589 views ]
RSS: The SPAM-Free Subscription Alternative

If you’ve been marketing online for any length of time, you’ve heard the adage, “The money’s in the list.” The list is your subscriber mailing list. You know…that list you work so hard to build so that SPAM filters and SPAM laws can make getting a message to your subscribers next to freakin’ impossible? Yeah, that list.

But now, there’s a new subscriber list kid in town: RSS. He’s a square looking dude, all orange and obvious, and he says to your visitors, “Pssst…when there’s new stuff here, I’ll let you know instantly. All ya gotta do is subscribe and it’s yours – hot off the press, no waiting – with NO SPAM in the mix.” And best of all, this little dude is FREE. No monthly fees…for you OR your subscribers.

So now what?