I’ve been using two service (Feedburner and Feedblit) as email subscription for this blog site. Actually both of it does the same thing which is to email my subscribers whenever I posted something for the day but I can’t really remember how did I ended up with two. All this while Feedblitz has one advantage over Feedburner that is to use the article’s topic as the email subject and it is enabled by default. However for Feedburner, I can only set a static subject which is “The Latest from Raymond.CC Blog”.
Feedburner is something that I set and forget so I don’t really log in to check what’s new. Thanks to PrinceOfAndalus, he informed me that I can now configure my Feedburner account to use today’s topic as the subject. This is certainly a good news to over 80,000 subscribers who has been putting up with the crappy subject for years.
I remembered emailing to Feedburner many years ago requesting them to improve the subject on the newsletter but they wasn’t able to do it. Then Google bought over Feedburner and slowly improved until we can now insert our latest post’s title into the Subject/Title of email.
To make the changes, here’s what you need to do:
1. Login to your Feedburner account.
2. Click on the Feed Title to access the Feed Stats Dashboard
3. Click the Publicize tab
4. Click the Email Subscriptions
5. Click Email Branding
6. At the Email Subject/Title, use the tag ${latestItemTitle}. Do take note that there are no spaces in between the 3 words. You can insert anything before and after the tag.
7. Click Save button.
I posted an article yesterday regarding the free PC Tools File Recover license and got an email an hour later with the subject “Raymond.CC Blog – Free File Recover 7.5 License Key To Restore Deleted Files Worth $29.95″.
Good job Google!
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I really needed such tweak for my feedburner.thankz
Raymond im a subsriber!!But i dont recive and mails anymore,it stopped a while ago!!Please help!
Great!
tq raymond for giving credit to me,
it’s an honour my name featuring in your blog,
that give me more motivation to blog….
tq very much
Hey Raymond, I’m glad you managed to FINALLY :p incorporate the subject title in the incoming mails… I’ve been always hating the generic one:)
Raymond,
I do not have a Feedburner account. Does this apply to me?
Just recently, within the last 4 days, I no longer receive email notifications of your new postings (i.e. the ones with the subject “The Latest from Raymond.CC Blog”) sent by Feedburner to the email address I subscribed to.
Did any of the new changes you made (as mentioned in your article above) inadvertently caused this?
Nevertheless, thanks for all the great work you do. Very much appreciated always.
tq raymond…i already change my feedburner..:-)
Do I need to use the $ sign or not?
Thanks for sharing this.
More like, Good job Raymond!
Thanks for the share~