Some of the alternatives to Feedburner and Feedblitz are:

1. Feedity.
2. Rapid Feeds.
3. Subscribe2 (WordPress plugin).

Or you could try and create your own (it’s how Feedburner started).

With regards the AdSense, I’m not sure if too many bloggers make any significant money from that. At least, not unless they have their blogs looking like neon placards with adverts all over the place!

I’m all for companies rising as high as possible – we need success and innovation for any of us to move on. The problem (at least as far as my own view goes) is that Google has risen and forgotten the very users who put them there. Something I’m about to write about in my very next post, funnily enough…

Also, I have mixed feeling about the Google domination. On the one hand, I do agree that it does seem to eat its children. On the other hand, Google has fostered an ecosystem that even you are part of – many companies and individuals depend heavily on the Google love to keep everything going. I mean that in a literal sense (blogs running AdSense) and in a figurative sense (excitement in investment community to fund new ideas). So maybe their interest in Twitter could help give them a necessary boost to the next level.

One thing’s for sure…Google is really taking a beating right now by everyone. Why is it we internet folks just looooove to kick the ankles of anyone who rises too high? I count myself in that mix, but feel somewhat ashamed.

Best,
Dana Todd, CMO
Newsforce Network

While your pricing starts at $1.49 per month, it then goes up depending on email subscribers (since you don’t charge for RSS readers).

Many people are now using email subscription as a preferred option, so this could take away readers from a blogger (if the blogger has a solid email subscriber count and is already paying hosted server fees, for example).

I’m not saying Feedblitz isn’t a valid and better alternative to Feedburner – just that not all bloggers are business-oriented.

Why should they pay?
- Because they want real, stable metrics.
- Because they want support when they need it.
- Because we’ve innovated more in the last 10 days than FeedBurner has in the last two years.

Because, basically, the value we add is worth it.

Sure, It is a business decision, even at the $1.49 minimum. But adoption is accelerating, I’ll tell you that. Banner day for us yesterday, today heading is already the same direction. FeedBurner has had it soul destroyed by Google. Time to move on.

FYI: Post on metrics and the “$1.49 question” here: http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/04/on-rss-subscriber-counts-and-feedburner.html

Thanks for stopping by, and good to see that Feedblitz monitors its brand.

“Cost” doesn’t always mean better – I’d suggest there’s no better CMS tool for bloggers, for example, than WordPress and that’s free. “Cost” simply means that there’s no excuse for no support.

The main problem with “cost” is that there are millions of bloggers that are curious about their community and traffic yet it’s not a professional medium for them. Therefore, why should they pay? I think that’s where Feedblitz might struggle to attract more bloggers.

Feedburner (before Google) were actually active at taking part in the conversation – perhaps the question should have been “Where’s Google?”.

1) *because* there’s a cost. Commitment matters; we care because we’re paid. You care because you’re paying. Or, more harshly, how’s the free, unsupported, unresponsive monopoly working out for you these days?

2) The 30-day redirection is a FeedBurner transition process that makes it easier to move without losing subscribers. It’s a Good Thing. The “how-to” is here http://blog.feedblitz.com/2009/04/how-to-migrate-your-feedburner-feeds.html and the recently updated (4/7/09)FeedBlitz RSS FAQs are here http://www.feedblitz.com/rssfaq.asp.

Thanks,

Phil Hollows
Founder
FeedBlitz, LLC

PS Where’s FeedBurner in this conversation? Telling, isnt it?…

Some days when I’m feeling paranoid-ish I think that in the near future every aspect of our lives will be brought to us by google – think of all the data they own on us already – might even be more than what the govt. has.