WordPress Publishing Tips - 3

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…because you don’t want people to leave your page when they click a link.

People don’t want to leave a page when they haven’t finished reading either.

Describe your link and explicitly say “Click here”

Quality Example Analysis
Bad URL Ambiguous. Reader doesn’t know what the URL contains
Not so bad Tai Tran’s Lab Offers the title of the link, but is still general
Good Tai Tran’s Lab where you can find information on business and technology Offers title and description of the link
Better Click here to Tai Tran’s Lab to read information on business and technology Clear instruction of what readers should do: Click
Very bad This link is super cooool. It’s the best! Click here everyone! Ambiguous & childish

Throw your RSS subscription options out

  • For tech-savvy readers, RSS icon is all they need. Show off this in an easy-to-spot place
  • For non tech-savvy readers, offer email subscription at the end of an entry. Since around 85% traffic comes from search / social media, readers normally jump right in one post of yours and you want to keep them by offering them the option when they finish their reading.
  • To many who are not familiar with RSS subscription, the word “Subscribe” sounds like they’re being charged to receive service. Make it clear to them that subscription is free.

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    Tai Tran’s Lab: Technology As Innovator is back

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    Tai Tran’s Lab: Technology As Innovator is back on its feet feed.

    For you who subscribed through taitran.com/feed, feed items transmission has been suspended for a few weeks.

    This was because my feed was exceeding the limit of 512Kb of FeedBurner.

    I’ve fixed this issue, and items are coming through to your RSS Reader and/or mailboxes again.

    Happy reading, my beloved readers.

    Tai Tran




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    Last update February 8, 2008

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    FeedBurner Pro services now Free after Google’s acquisition

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    FeedBurner Logo
    As you know, we’re constantly looking for ways to identify and offer new tools for content creators and website publishers. Likewise, we constantly aim to give AdWords advertisers broader distribution to an even wider audience of users. For these reasons, we’re very pleased to tell you that we’ve just acquired FeedBurner.

    For those of you who aren’t bloggers, podcasters, or feed creators, Chicago-based FeedBurner is a leading provider of feed distribution and management tools. A web feed is a way for online publishers to syndicate their content and deliver it straight to readers. Each day, FeedBurner delivers feeds to millions of users around the world and offers unique and useful tools for publishers to analyze, optimize, and monetize their content. Further, FeedBurner offers a feed advertising platform for advertisers to reach engaged feed readers through targeted in-feed ads and innovative techniques like RSS feed-driven ads.

    We’re excited to continue offering the exceptional tools of FeedBurner to content creators throughout the world, and our teams will work together to improve the experiences of feed users, advertisers, and publishers. You can sign up for FeedBurner’s services and take advantage of their feed tools and features immediately.

    Susan Wojcicki, VP, Product Management, Google Inc.

    Source: Adding more flare, Official Google Blog

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    FeedBurner logo

    FreeBurner for Everyone

    One of the many benefits that FeedBurner publishers will enjoy now that FeedBurner is part of the Google family is a little something we like to call, “more for free!” Beginning today, two of FeedBurner’s previously for-pay services, TotalStats and MyBrand, will be free. Not in the sense of soaring high above the clouds or recently sprung from the hoosegow, but free like you’ll no longer gladly be billed on Tuesday for a burned feed today. We suspect this will be welcome news to the 450,000+ of you using many of our other free services, but understanding that your feed is your feed, you will need to activate these newly freed-up services in order to partake in their awesomeness.

    FeedBurner Stats PRO

    PRO is feed analytics taken to the next level. You will now have access to the number of people who have viewed or clicked individual content items in your feed and “Reach,” which estimates the daily number of subscribers who interacted with your feed content. You can turn this on by signing in to your account, navigating to the Analyze tab and heading to the FeedBurner Stats PRO section. Click the “Item Views” checkbox to activate these PRO features.

    MyBrand

    The MyBrand service (also PRO-level) is located under the “My Account” tab after you’ve signed in. MyBrand lets you maintain consistency between your feed address and your hosted website’s domain, if matchy-matchy is your thing. For example, rather than using feeds.feedburner.com/MyFeedName, your MyBrand-ed feed address can be feeds.myexcellentdomain.net/MyFeedName. To get started with MyBrand, sign into FeedBurner, click the “My Account” link in the upper left-hand corner, and then click “MyBrand”. Nota Bene: You must be comfortable playing around with DNS entries and own the rights to the domain whose DNS entries you’ll be playing around with in order to successfully activate MyBrand.

    Previous “PRO” customers will not be charged for the month of June 2007 and beyond. Also, after newly activating either of these features or services, you’ll notice a nifty new “PRO” badge next to your feed(s) on My Feeds page.

    Welcome to FreeBurner!

    Source: FreeBurner for everyone, FeedBurner Blog




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