Comments on: FeedBurner RSS-to-Email Hack

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:59:41 +0000

You’re not the 1st to ask us for this. IIRC, the devs plan to launch this (and other cool stuff) later this month.

By: antonio

antonio — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:25:25 +0000

Hello,
when are you going to integrate this option like aweber ?
http://www.aweber.com/blog/new-features/blog-broadcast-feedburner-integration-click-tracking.htm

I would like to keep my feedburner reader counter…

Thanks a lot!

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:14:21 +0000

@Derek – Yes, everything happens through MailChimp (signup, delivery, tracking) but content is fed to MailChimp via Feedburner.

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:45:42 +0000

By using this hack, do your subscribers signup through MailChimp or feedburner?

If I am reading right, they sign up through Mail Chimp but are DELIVERED content from Feedburner feed, correct?

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:18:28 +0000

Hi Curt,

You can use any blog platform. Just give us the RSS feed to deliver. And yes, there’s a signup box you put on your blog, and it’s tied to a MailChimp account that you’d setup ahead of time. You’d also setup a nice, HTML email template with your branding.

By: curt

curt — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:12:40 +0000

Are you using blogspot for your blog then?
Do you use a email sign-up box on the blog that is tied into your mailchimp account, also?

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:06:49 +0000

I think they mean, literally, a “Google ad.” As in, a banner or text ad about Google. Or a Google search box. Not the “ads fed through google adsense.” Which people are sticking in Feedburner emails all the time. It’s pretty common to send ads from adsense out through feedburner’s rss-to-email, but those don’t come with any in-depth tracking of opens and clicks.

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:56:44 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong, but this violates Google’s program policies for Adsense. Have a look at https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=48182 under “Ad Placement”. It states:

“No Google ad or Google search box may be displayed in a pop-up, pop-under, or in an email.”

It’s a great idea, but it could lead to getting Adsense publishers’ accounts disabled, which then becomes incredibly difficult to get resolved. I personally wouldn’t suggest this.