Heather, Author at FeedBlitz

Important New Feature: Ad Suppression Through Tagging

This morning I realized that a key feature was missing from FeedBlitz’s monetization option. Premium FeedBlitz publishers should be able to suppress advertisements from their feeds and mailings without logging into FeedBlitz and making changes to their account. Sometimes we ?áhave to write about things that are too personal, too important, or too sad for…

SumoMe Now Works With FeedBlitz

Some of you have been asking what’s a good list building plugin or tool. I’m happy to announce that SumoMe now works with your FeedBlitz account. Why is this exciting? The SumoMe WordPress Plugin has three list building tools: Smart Bar Scroll Box List Builder (popup). Each of these tools is available from the Sumo…

Managing Images in Your Newsletter Template Just Got Easier

FeedBlitz gives all publishers the ability to control every aspect of newsletter design. The Easy Editor allows FeedBlitz publishers to control their logo, fonts and colors, whether or not to include a table of contents, and a simple utility bar that provides subscribers with an easy forward option, a convenient contact link etc. The FeedBlitz…

I Need This Post to Go Out ASAP – How Do I Do That?

As part of the FeedBlitz support team, I’m regularly asked how can I send out a post immediately? We understand that sometimes a post is time critical, maybe there is an announcement of a flash sale or a correction needs to go out. FeedBlitz gives publishers the ability to send mailings immediately via two methods.…

Podcasters Don’t Overload Your RSS Feed

As a Podcaster, and this goes for Bloggers too, I know the feeling of wanting to make all my shows available to everyone. It should to be as simple as it can to get to your content into the hands of subscribers, but what a lot of people want to do is instinctively make all…

Heatmaps Are Here!

Here at FeedBlitz, we are proud of the set-and-forget format of our RSS to email publishing service. It’s a great, simple, painless way to deliver your content to your blog’s subscribers. However, FeedBlitz is not only an RSS to email service. We also offer a full array of email marketing tools which we’re continually improving…

Why Unroll.me Is Good for Publishers

You have 6,952 unread emails. Does this look familiar? I’ve never been one to manage the whole inbox zero game. Every day more and more newsletters, announcements, and spam disguised as business show up. I don’t have time to deal with it, and I suspect you don’t either. If we have a cup of coffee…

Black Hat SEO and Your RSS Feed

Last week, while working FeedBlitz customer support I came across a very interesting and involved case. The client observed that the daily emails being sent out by FeedBlitz were occasionally missing a post. As I’ve mentioned before, missing posts are most often caused by cached feeds and occasionally duplicate etags. This proved not to be…

Help! My FeedBurner Migration Message Isn’t Appearing or Updating

One of the most common support questions I run across is a variation of: “Help my FeedBurner feed hasn’t updated since [insert number of hours or days] and my readers aren’t seeing the migration message? Why are things broken?” There are a few potential causes for the FeedBurner feed to not update or for the…