I have to give a big thanks to Dennis Edell who actually told me how to setup Feedburner to send out a different email subject if there are is than 1 article in the RSS feed. So I did a little more testing and came up with a good idea to help others customize their Google Feedburner RSS Feeds for email. If your blog has more than one article posted in a 24 hour period on some occasions but not all occasions there is a good reason to have two separate titles for your RSS feed. If your blog always has more than 1 article every RSS update then you can use a single title to cover the many subjects, or you can actually just use a single title that shows the # of articles in the feed if you want to use 1 subject for all emails.
Here is a video tutorial on customizing your email branding options with Feedburner:
For those who want to read instead, to change your email branding options, log into your Feedburner account.
- Click on Your Feed Name, then Publicize
- Click on Email Subscriptions to the left
- Click on Email Branding drop down
Here you check mark “Change Subject” when an email has 2 or more items and you get the option to set a unique subject when more than 1 article is listed in your RSS feed.
Some helpful tips and variables can be used on Feedburner.
- ${latestItemTitle} will display the title of the latest article
- ${n} will show total number of articles in the latest feed
- ${m} will show number of articles after the first in the latest feed
This allows you to create custom subjects like:
Top 10 Chrome Applications from DragonBlogger.com
You would use: {latestItemTitle} from DragonBlogger.com
Or
4 new articles published on DragonBlogger.com
which would be ${n} on DragonBlogger.com
Or
Top 10 Applications + 3 other articles on DragonBlogger.com
which would be: ${latestItemTitle} + ${m} other articles on DragonBlogger.com
These are just some suggestions to help optimize your Email RSS Subject Titles.
-Dragon Blogger
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By day I work in the IT Security Industry and have been in IT for over 20 years. On my spare time I am a Vlogger, Blogger, Streamer, Gadget Reviewer, affiliate marketer, influencer and entertainer. I am also an avid movie fan, TV Show fan, Anime fan, video game fan and fan of trying anything and everything new.