Comments on: Feedburner vs Blogbeat http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/24/feedburner-vs-blogbeat/ Living in a state of accord. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:32:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Andrés Paredes http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/24/feedburner-vs-blogbeat/comment-page-1/#comment-104238 Andrés Paredes Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:03:21 +0000 http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/24/feedburner-vs-blogbeat/#comment-104238 My site: http://www.rapiditoweb.com, uses CMS Joomla, and users suscribes from the Joomla component, with Feedburner I have the problem that I can't import users from Joomla, I update my database once a month. In the other hand with Feedblitz you can import / export users from other databases. Do you know if blogbeat allows to self update the database? My site: http://www.rapiditoweb.com, uses CMS Joomla, and users suscribes from the Joomla component, with Feedburner I have the problem that I can’t import users from Joomla, I update my database once a month. In the other hand with Feedblitz you can import / export users from other databases. Do you know if blogbeat allows to self update the database?

]]> By: Matt Shobe http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/24/feedburner-vs-blogbeat/comment-page-1/#comment-7776 Matt Shobe Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:42:02 +0000 http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/24/feedburner-vs-blogbeat/#comment-7776 Hello, Thanks for the comments and the review. We shouldn't be forgetting the reporting timeframe _during_ a stats viewing session, but we do default back to the "Last 30 Days" view across sessions; you did say "FeedBurner" twice in that sentence, so I'm not completely certain you're faulting us. (The default reporting ranges we offer are Last 24 Hours, Last 7 Days, Last 30 Days, Month to Date, Last Month.) We'll see what we can do to tone down the "salesmanship" a bit on the PRO upgrade, but we do of course want to make users aware of the benefits of going pro. The key benefits may be of use to you -- better understanding which content items you publish create the biggest splash in syndication, and where those items are being redisplayed/resyndicated. With the comment about "making your users change," I assume you're referring to the need to publicize a FeedBurner feed URL in order to have your subscriber base use your FeedBurner feed. We have a good number of publishers redirect requests for their "original" feed URL to FeedBurner -- so doing requires your users to make no changes to their existing feed readers but gets you 100% of your feed traffic stats tracking through our service. We can even completely preserve your original domain name through our Partner Pro service (more details here -- http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/001270.html). We realize both of these options require control over your web server that hosted blogging services make difficult or impossible, and we're working with several partners to make the "you control your feed domain -- not us" concept much easier to realize for more publishers. Finally, we have a significant redesign of our stats reporting services in the works -- both free and pro. If you have specific suggestions where we could better meet your needs for quicker stats comprehension and interpretation, we're all ears. Feel free to send us a note at feedback[at]feedburner.com. Thanks again for sharing your perspective on our service -- we really do appreciate it! ~Matt Shobe FeedBurner Co-Founder Hello,

Thanks for the comments and the review. We shouldn’t be forgetting the reporting timeframe _during_ a stats viewing session, but we do default back to the “Last 30 Days” view across sessions; you did say “FeedBurner” twice in that sentence, so I’m not completely certain you’re faulting us. (The default reporting ranges we offer are Last 24 Hours, Last 7 Days, Last 30 Days, Month to Date, Last Month.) We’ll see what we can do to tone down the “salesmanship” a bit on the PRO upgrade, but we do of course want to make users aware of the benefits of going pro. The key benefits may be of use to you — better understanding which content items you publish create the biggest splash in syndication, and where those items are being redisplayed/resyndicated.

With the comment about “making your users change,” I assume you’re referring to the need to publicize a FeedBurner feed URL in order to have your subscriber base use your FeedBurner feed. We have a good number of publishers redirect requests for their “original” feed URL to FeedBurner — so doing requires your users to make no changes to their existing feed readers but gets you 100% of your feed traffic stats tracking through our service. We can even completely preserve your original domain name through our Partner Pro service (more details here — http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/001270.html). We realize both of these options require control over your web server that hosted blogging services make difficult or impossible, and we’re working with several partners to make the “you control your feed domain — not us” concept much easier to realize for more publishers.

Finally, we have a significant redesign of our stats reporting services in the works — both free and pro. If you have specific suggestions where we could better meet your needs for quicker stats comprehension and interpretation, we’re all ears. Feel free to send us a note at feedback[at]feedburner.com. Thanks again for sharing your perspective on our service — we really do appreciate it!

~Matt Shobe
FeedBurner Co-Founder

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