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Saying goodbye to the AdSense for Feeds blog

July 26th, 2012 | by ewood | published in Google Adsense Feeds

Thanks to everyone who has been a loyal reader of this blog over the years. After some consideration, we recognize that we’re just not generating enough content here to warrant your time, so we won’t be posting here any longer. Thanks again for being a…

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Your stats, right away

October 25th, 2010 | by Dan Rodney | published in Google Adsense Feeds

Do you hate delays? Do you think being told to “Please wait…” by websites, cash machines, call centers, and the doughnut stand drive-thru guy in the year 2010 is a sure sign modern living isn’t quite meeting our collective expectations as a planet?

Good news! Today, we will be rolling out a new, experimental interface for Google FeedBurner. The real story is what’s new under the hood, however: the new interface provides real time stats for clicks, views, and podcast downloads, which means you can start seeing what content is drawing traffic from feed readers, Twitter, and other syndicated sources as it happens.

Additionally, if you use the FeedBurner Socialize service, and your platform uses PubSubHubbub or you ping us when you post, you can for the first time get stats on how much traffic your feed items are receiving from Twitter, as well as feed reading platforms like Google Reader in one place. Again, all within seconds of posting your content. Ping? Pong! Yep. That fast.

Your subscriber and reach numbers are still calculated based on a whole day’s worth of requests, and are based on the traffic you received yesterday and before; but your item stats reflect the traffic you are receiving right now.

You can access the new interface by visiting http://feedburner.google.com/gfb/ or logging into feedburner.google.com and then clicking on the “Try out the NEW (beta) version!” link at the top.

The best way to see these real time features is to publish a new post and then switch to the “Last two hours” view to begin seeing updates.

To access feed management or previous analytics functionality, you can continue using the original interface at feedburner.google.com.

In the new interface, we are focusing on two things: our new real-time stats presentation and getting messages about and issues with your feed posted to the top-level dashboard, so that you can better diagnose any issues that may prevent your feed from being delivered in real time. If you have any comments or questions, look for the “Send Feedback” link at the top of the page to tell us what you think.

Posted by Dan Rodney, FeedBurner Team

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Your stats, right away

October 25th, 2010 | by Dan Rodney | published in Google Adsense Feeds

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Enabling social sharing with FeedFlare

April 23rd, 2010 | by Steve | published in Google Adsense Feeds, Uncategorized

Feed content is being constantly distributed via new channels and endpoints every day. More and more, these new channels involve sharing your content in social networks and applications such as Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz.Recently, we laun…

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Enabling social sharing with FeedFlare

April 23rd, 2010 | by Unknown | published in Google Adsense Feeds

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Socializing your feed with Twitter

December 14th, 2009 | by Steve Olechowski | published in Google Adsense Feeds

Sometimes you reach across the hedgerow to share with your nearby neighbors. Other times, members of the household move away and yet you can’t keep from calling to remind them to wear a hat and such because it’s chilly out. Today, we’re celebrating ac…

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Socializing your feed with Twitter

December 14th, 2009 | by Steve Olechowski | published in Google Adsense Feeds

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"Afternoon, Frank." "Hey howdy, George."

November 13th, 2009 | by Steve Olechowski | published in Google Adsense Feeds

It’s about time these two neighbors got to talking to each other. Most Saturday afternoons you’d find them politely waving as they passed at each other by with their push mowers, tending to their neatly manicured tables, charts, and graphs. It just mad…

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"Afternoon, Frank." "Hey howdy, George."

November 13th, 2009 | by Steve Olechowski | published in Google Adsense Feeds

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AdSense policy clarification on using AdSense for feeds and AdSense for content

November 9th, 2009 | by Steve Olechowski | published in Google Adsense Feeds

This is just a quick clarification on AdSense for feeds as it relates to the AdSense for Content specific policy of only allowing three ad units and three link units per page.Many publishers have asked the question “Since feed items often get displayed…

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AdSense policy clarification on using AdSense for feeds and AdSense for content

November 9th, 2009 | by Steve Olechowski | published in Google Adsense Feeds

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AdSense for feeds now available directly in Blogger

October 29th, 2009 | by Steve Olechowski | published in Google Adsense Feeds, Uncategorized

One of the things our publishers have always asked for are ways to make it even easer to configure their blogs to work with FeedBurner and AdSense for Feeds. We’re happy to announce that Blogger users, with just a few clicks, are able to do both at …

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AdSense for feeds now available directly in Blogger

October 29th, 2009 | by Steve Olechowski | published in Google Adsense Feeds

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A small yet noteworthy change to our item stats link serving

September 29th, 2009 | by Steve Olechowski | published in Google Adsense Feeds

FeedBurner has been busy analyzing, publicizing, optimizing and monetizing your feeds since 2004, and in that time, we’ve seen our fair share of feed traffic. In fact, we see billions of hits from feed traffic per week, and we watch this data carefully for trends and opportunities to improve what we do in making sure your feed content is delivered as quickly as possible, as accurately as possible, no matter what its destination might be.

Today we are making an improvement that we think will serve our publishers better by making our service more compatible with search engines that crawl feeds.

When we started the service, one thing we were not sure of at the time was how the feed reading ecosystem would treat the links we rewrite in order to give you statistics on how many people click on your feed items.

For instance, on the previous post in this blog, we change the link in the feed item for “FeedBurner Terms of Service Update” from

http://adsenseforfeeds.blogspot.com/2009/08/feedburner-terms-of-service-update.html

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MQiv/~3/Z8Es5QuvgEI/feedburner-terms-of-service-update.html

which sends the browser to that original URL, but allows us to first track the click.

As a technical detail, we rewrote these links with a code of “302 Temporary Redirect” which tells the browser or consuming service that the redirect is not permanent, and thus it would need to be read every time.

As of today we are changing this to be a “301 Permanent Redirect” because we’ve looked at the traffic enough to tell that there some benefit to changing this to a “301 Permanent Redirect” – in that some search engines that index the feeds themselves will consider these to be additional links that should be used in determining the popularity of your site. This is the same way that “URL shortener” services send traffic and get treated by search engines, so we feel that this is consistent with the way that content is distributed today. This update should not change the number of clicks that come to your site from your feed nor should it significantly affect the number of clicks FeedBurner tracks for you.

What do you need to do? Nothin’. Nada. Just keep burning your feeds from FeedBurner or your AdSense account in AdSense for feeds, and we will keep working hard to ensure your content is as accessible as possible – now, hopefully even more so.

Posted by Steve Olechowski – Product Manager, AdSense for feeds and FeedBurner

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A small yet noteworthy change to our item stats link serving

September 29th, 2009 | by Steve Olechowski | published in Google Adsense Feeds

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