Email: Aweber and RSS

[vin]

Hello,

On my blog, I have two forms of email sign up. One for feedburner RSS delivery to email and the other for my Aweber email list. Ideally, I'd like to combine this somehow. When someone signs up for RSS email delivery, I would also like them to be on my Aweber email list. Is there a way to accomplish this?

Thanks

[vin]

I think I'm all set. I found some documentation on Aweber's site. I'll keep you guys posted in case anyone else is interested in doing the same thing.

[Evan]

It's exactly what I'd like to do, when I have the money to sign up to Aweber. Please keep me posted.

[chrisgarrett]

I made this leap a while back and for the most part it was smooth and beneficial. You can export your feedburner list then import into Aweber. Officially you need to have them all re-confirm.

Just be aware if you want to use blog broadcast and people get full feed you have to paste the html of your post into the excerpt field in WP otherwise they get a snippet rather than full article

[Dane Morgan]

Just be aware if you want to use blog broadcast and people get full feed you have to paste the html of your post into the excerpt field in WP otherwise they get a snippet rather than full article

I'm not sure I'm following you on this one, Chris. Why do it this way as opposed to selecting the "full feeds" instead of the "excerpt" for feeds in the dashboard?

[Dane Morgan]

By The Way: One thing to consider is that you do not have to give up the FeedBurner advantages to send your feed through an AR list.

Just be sure to point the AR at the FeedBurner version rather than the internal blog version of your feed.

[chrisgarrett]

I'm not sure I'm following you on this one, Chris. Why do it this way as opposed to selecting the "full feeds" instead of the "excerpt" for feeds in the dashboard?

Aweber ignores the full content of your feed and instead sends out the excerpt to subscribers to your blog broadcast. Regardless of how your feed is set up, unless you put the full html in your excerpt, blog broadcast subscribers get a few lines rather than your full article.

[vin]

Aweber ignores the full content of your feed and instead sends out the excerpt to subscribers to your blog broadcast. Regardless of how your feed is set up, unless you put the full html in your excerpt, blog broadcast subscribers get a few lines rather than your full article.

I just found a way around this that involves a WordPress hack to put the entire post in the RSS description field.

http://www.davidrisley.com/2008/07/0...log-broadcast/

What else uses the RSS description field that might make this a bad idea?

[chrisgarrett]

Looks like a good workaround, but I will let others try it first, heh The field is only used by feed readers or aggregators that show excerpts probably, but someone with a more blog design background might think of any other downsides?

[skinnyninja]

I am about to try and make this move (from using feedburner to Aweber) but I am nervous about the re opt-in thing. How many subscribers can I expect to lose out of 700+?

I guess it doesn't matter if I lose a certain amount, like say half, because they are not the most targeted and responsive list to begin with. Also keep in mind that 95% of my readers have never heard of RSS. They are not a tech savvy bunch. I'm afraid I will lose a ton of them in the transition.

Maybe it is best to stick with Feedburner....