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Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion: Linking Strategy – Link to Feeds

  • John Wesley · 2 years ago
    Good post, you make an excellent point. This idea occurred to me a couple days ago. In certain situations it makes more sense to link to a feed, and I think bloggers would appreciate the subscribers. Also, love the snow.
  • John Wesley · 2 years ago
    Good post, you make an excellent point. This idea occurred to me a couple days ago. In certain situations it makes more sense to link to a feed, and I think bloggers would appreciate the subscribers. Also, love the snow.
  • Eric Olson · 2 years ago
    Hey Andy,

    What you saw with Firefox was their stylesheet. With the new release of Firefox they created their own stylesheet which is placed over the xml code and their stylesheet superceded ours. However, one of the options in BrowserFriendly which you may have chosen during the reset you did was to allow our stylesheet to override the firefox one.

    The same situation happened in IE7 as well and we're able to override their sheet too. However, as with everything we do, we give publishers the choice to have our stylesheet override the browsers' stylesheets as some may like the IE7 and FF stylesheets. Hope that clears things up!

    If you ever need anything else please shoot me a note and I'd also like to follow-up with you on the stats you'd like us to add. What exactly do you want us to count for you?

    Cheers,
    Eric Olson
    Publisher Services - FeedBurner
    312.756.0022 x2034
    erico@feedburner.com
  • Eric Olson · 2 years ago
    Hey Andy,

    What you saw with Firefox was their stylesheet. With the new release of Firefox they created their own stylesheet which is placed over the xml code and their stylesheet superceded ours. However, one of the options in BrowserFriendly which you may have chosen during the reset you did was to allow our stylesheet to override the firefox one.

    The same situation happened in IE7 as well and we're able to override their sheet too. However, as with everything we do, we give publishers the choice to have our stylesheet override the browsers' stylesheets as some may like the IE7 and FF stylesheets. Hope that clears things up!

    If you ever need anything else please shoot me a note and I'd also like to follow-up with you on the stats you'd like us to add. What exactly do you want us to count for you?

    Cheers,
    Eric Olson
    Publisher Services - FeedBurner
    312.756.0022 x2034
    erico@feedburner.com
  • Maki · 2 years ago
    Very interesting link strategy which should be pretty effective if the blog in question has strong and impressive content. The feed reader doesn't have a chance to be wowed by aesthetic factors like site design or navigation, which can be a good or bad thing depending on the blog in question.

    Looking at my feed just reminded me that I need to get the images properly aligned with the text. :)
  • Maki · 2 years ago
    Very interesting link strategy which should be pretty effective if the blog in question has strong and impressive content. The feed reader doesn't have a chance to be wowed by aesthetic factors like site design or navigation, which can be a good or bad thing depending on the blog in question.

    Looking at my feed just reminded me that I need to get the images properly aligned with the text. :)
  • AndyBeard · 2 years ago
    Image alignment on page and in feeds is my post for tomorrow ;) after I have perfected my own. Most blogs cheat and just use align right in the image link.

    Blog templates encourage use of CSS in the theme, that neds up looking horrible sometimes in a readers.

    It is like a part 2 to my post on headings in Feed Readers.
  • AndyBeard · 2 years ago
    Image alignment on page and in feeds is my post for tomorrow ;) after I have perfected my own. Most blogs cheat and just use align right in the image link.

    Blog templates encourage use of CSS in the theme, that neds up looking horrible sometimes in a readers.

    It is like a part 2 to my post on headings in Feed Readers.
  • Ben Yoskovitz · 2 years ago
    Interesting idea. I'm going to try it although I think many readers might be surprised to end up on a FeedBurner page and not quite know where they are...

    And I've dugg the post.
  • Ben Yoskovitz · 2 years ago
    Interesting idea. I'm going to try it although I think many readers might be surprised to end up on a FeedBurner page and not quite know where they are...

    And I've dugg the post.