Thanks,

Dan

http://danielmcgonagle.name

Thanks,

Dan

http://danielmcgonagle.name

Thanks,
Steve

Are you able to add multiple feed sources and hook them up to the same email list? I use Google Reader today to merge multiple feeds, then run it through Feedburner for stats, formatting and email subscriptions.

I’m not clear what you’re asking here – you think people would want to subscribe through you to get multiple feeds aggregated via e-mail?

If so, you could always pull them all into Tumblr and use the RSS feed there to trigger the e-mails in AWeber.

Do they provide automated access to stats via an API or web service or something like that?

No clue on that – I just login regularly. You can get a notification via e-mail for each opt-in, but that gets annoying.

Here is an FAQ for the Blog Broadcast feature, but I don’t see anything about stats via an API or web service: http://www.aweber.com/faq/categories/Customers/Messages/Blog+Broadcasts/

I’ve found their tech support to be very helpful – you should definitely ask them.

Are you able to add multiple feed sources and hook them up to the same email list? I use Google Reader today to merge multiple feeds, then run it through Feedburner for stats, formatting and email subscriptions.

If I could hook the original feeds to the email list directly, that would be great, because it can’t happen that things are being sent more than once if you have to remove (because you can’t pause) a feed source from the merged feed and re-add it later. Google Reader must assign all the items of a feed new ID’s when it is being re-included in the merged feed and Feedburner thinks that those posts are new and re-sends them again to everybody. It’s a pain.

If I could remove Feedburner and Google reader out of the equation for the the email subscribers, that would be good. I would lose the Feedburner stats, but get AWeber stats instead. Do they provide automated access to stats via an API or web service or something like that?

That’s correct that you can’t directly import lists – they have to re-opt-in to the version of the list on AWeber.

That really bothered me when I first went there, because it greatly slimmed down my lists.

While that part can be frustrating, the system is very beneficial in the end.

Since they are so harsh on importing lists, they’ve got a really good reputation with ISPs, and more effective delivery than other e-mail providers I’ve used.

I looked at Aweber a while ago and whilst it looks like an excellent system, and has great recommendations from many people I know, there is one big problem.

You can’t bring existing lists into the system

It looks great for starting a new list, but to move to Aweber you need to get every member of your list to re-subscribe. Pretty much the kiss of death even for the best of lists.

I’ve a couple of new projects I’ll put their way, but for my existing stuff it seems I’m stuck with another supplier or using my own scripts.

If there’s a way round this, I’d love to know!