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Now you don’t have to tweet about your new posts. Feedburner will do that for you.
Yesterday, it was announced on adsenseforfeeds.blogspot.com.
Great idea. But.. I don’t think, that it should help a lot. It’s just another news, that made too much shout about it.
Moreover, I’d say, that this is a pure promotion of Feedburner. Why not Twitter? Do you think, that Twitter needs to be promoted? Today it is the most popular chat-service. What’s the point of spending money on another way of promotion? It’s better to earn money. It’s better to make your name work for you at this stage.
Why am I talking about it? I just wanted to pay your attention on how the “Giants” promote themselves. This is a great source to learn from. So do it :) All those common ways are helpful, but they are still common ones. And day by day the get older. That means, that maybe tomorrow they will be useless.
I completely disagree, this option allows bloggers to leverage feedburner to post their blog feeds to twitter instead of having to use another wordpress plug-in. The feed is much more customizable than most wordpress twitter plug-ins and you can link multiple twitter accounts to same feed (via copying feeds).
To accomplish this you would have to actually use a twitter feeds service like twitterfeed, but by having it already connected to your feedburner account it is one less site you have to sign up for. Plus services like twitterfeed allow no customization of the tweets.
Dragon Blogger,
Very good point of view :)
But I’d like to ask you. How long does it take you to announce about your new post manually? 5 minutes, 4? Or maybe 15-20 seconds? So that’s why I say, that this service doesn’t really help us, but it’s still a way of promotion.
Honestly, I don’t understand your problem with the service. The whole “why not twitter” paragraph didn’t make sense to me.
Currently I’m using TwitterFeed to send my new posts to Twitter and FaceBook. Just added Network Blogs, but that only works for FaceBook. And both are just ONE MORE SYSTEM to manage.
Since I already use FeedBurner for my blog feeds, I love the added functionality. And, yes, I love to save five minutes per post on every blog!
Alison Moore Smith,
Well.. I use it either now.
But the point of this post is to point you at the way how “Giants” promote themselves. :)
Giant corporations probably have staff that all they do is sit on Twitter and Facebook keeping PR and media control. For me, I work a FTE job 60 hours a week and queue all my blogs posts on the weekend for the following week in most cases, I sometimes can’t get on twitter for several hours at a time, so an automatic feed publish is beneficial.
I am out. I still did not promote my blog posts thru Twitter. Seldom use it anyway. :P
Allan,
I use both – the Feedburner auto-tweets and I Tweet again later directly from Twitter. As much as I don’t like to admit it Google, is running the show when it comes to successful blogging. Everything from adsense, adwords, keywords, analytics, feeds…you name it, Google’s not going away. So I just go with the flow.
Thanks for sharing.
@Ileane
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