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Testing Feedburner V’s Aweber as a subscription service
Filed Under (Make Money Blogging) by Ian on 22-01-2008
I’ve been researching the pros and cons of using Aweber instead of Feedburner as my subscriber and blog announcement management service. I’ve now discovered some very good reasons to change and start using Aweber as my preferred choice.
Feedburner is a news feed management provider with some other statistics and information you can gather about your blog. Aweber is a subscriber and autoresponder management service. Both are used for different purposes, but you can also use Aweber to broadcast your blog post announcements to subscribers.
I’ve decided to implement Aweber and remove Feedburner for some very specific reasons which I will write about in another post.
I have also implemented a clever technique to test many different versions of the subscription form you see in the sidebar on the right. I’ve done this so I can test 11 different variables fields (each variable field has it’s own collection of variables as well). I haven’t calculated the total number of variation possibilities just yet, but I will let you know when I report my results.
The idea behind this is to see which combination is the most effective to encourage someone to enter their details and subscribe to my posts. You won’t actually see a different subscription form if you refresh the page because this is part of how the technique works to gather the most accurate data.
Once I have collected the statistics I’ll publish my results here on my blog, and I’ll also show you how to get this working on your own blog quickly and easily.
This has to be the ultimate form of split testing available I have ever used, and the easiest to implement.
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Josiah@Free ipad (1)
Hello again Ian. I’ve seen the blog broadcast facility
at Aweber but havent known much about it. So will look
out for your future posts/explanations. Thanks.
Btw, congrats on removing the nofollow tags.
Gary Harvey
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Looked for an updated post on any feedback from the test. Hoe did is go? Are you still gathering statistics? if you have already posted them what is the URL…
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Hello Annie,
I have posted my results and they can be found at the following link.
http://ezyas123.com/internet-business/protected-update-on-aweber-vs-feedburner-and-split-testing-the-subscription-box/
This post is password protected and you need to be a subscriber of my blog in order to get these passwords.
If you aren’t a subscriber yet then it might be a good idea to join so you can get the passwords in the future.
Also, I am considering a competition with weekly prises which only subscribers can be a part of as well, so that’s a couple of good reasons to subscribe, besides the fact you will be first to find out when I post something new.
Regards,
Ian
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I tested this myself to see what kind of results I would get. Feedburner is great because its free and because its very user friendly. However, Aweber is gold in terms of building a mailing list, which I’ve found to be very very profitable.
Joshs last blog post..Downtown Toronto Real Estate
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I read the followup article as well as this one. I’m very curious as to whether or not you had tried to monetize this subscription. If you had then I think you would have found aweber to be much, much better.
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I am going to implement both of these options in my new internet marketing blog. As great as Aweber is, I would prefer to allow some subscribers to solely receive content while I intend to use my other list of double opt-in’s to send out some product promotions.
Jamess last blog post..Making Money by Giving Away an E-Book
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I have used feedburner in the past. My first attractionto it was that it is available for free.
But now I actually preferto use Aweber. I’ve learnd that when it comes to technology and marketing, it’s best to choose quality over price.
Thanks for the great post.
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I think you’re taking a smart approach to it. It’ll really narrow everything down to give you some good results. I like feedburner and aweber a lot, I’m not sure which I feel is stronger, how’d your results come along?
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I´m looking some help about my problem between aweber and Feedburner.
When I modify a post, feedburner, create a new entry. Aweber detect it, and resent the emails to my suscribers.
I´had searched in a lot of site and forums, but the people has the same problems, and the solutions in not clear
I readed here a possible solution to remove Feedburner an work only with aweber. Is it possible really. Anybody can give me some “light” over this
Thank’s
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Have you checked out FeedmailPro.com? It came out more recently but I like it much more than Aweber. They have an affiliate program too.
Brian
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Ian Reply:
August 17th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Thanks for the heads up Brian, I’ll certainly look into it and report back by writing a post.
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If you had then I think you would have found aweber to be much, much better. i use aweber on my affiliate programs and so far i have no complains. aweber woks. it is more complete.
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