23
Nov
2006

eBook in feed

November 23rd, 2006 at 03:25 pm by ashok in blog

I my previous post I had written that, I will modify wp-rss2.php file to provide link of ebook to my RSS readers. But before modifing I thought I should look at feedburner for solution. I got the solution in feedburner, they provide a tool under optimize tab, called feedflare. Feedflare tool is used to provide links in rss feed. They have some ready made feedflare like email this, Add to del.icio.us, digg this, comment count etc. When we choose these feedflare they appear in the feed. There is also a facility to made custom feedflare. I used this service to create download link of ebook for my feed readers.

But there a slight problem occured, the best way to download ebook is right clicking the link and select save target as ( Internet explorer) or save link as (Firefox). Altough some download manager are configured to catch pdf link and instead of opening file they save it. But for those who do not use any download manager right clicking and saving is the best method specially for big pdf files. The link which was provided by feedflare was not good for right clicking as it was a redirected link, and as the ebook on SEO which I provided was around 2MB it was causing problem in downloading, therefore I modified the feedflare that instead of direct downloading the ebook, visitors are first directed to a page from where they could download the ebook. But since feedflare change do not propagate in real time, my modification is not reflected in RSS feed, hence I changed the SEO book with affiliate marketing ebook which is of only around 150KB. Those who will download the ebook from my feed will get ebook on affiliate marketing and when my new changes will propogated fully you can download ebook on SEO also.

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