We had been using Zookoda to enable site visitors to follow new posts on the site through their email accounts. Sadly late last year they announced that the service would be pulled as from December 2009.
Even more sadly they actually pulled the service a few days ago and without any notice.
Zookoda was a neat service that took the rss feed from a website and sent the content out as emails to subscribers, we had quite a few readers but sadly I no longer have access to the records of who they were. I hope that some of you folks who were reading the irregular posts here by email find your way back.
I will be looking for an alternative service, if anyone has suggestions please let me know!
Andrew.
Filed under Blog Promotion, Blog Setups, Blogging Tools by on Feb 3rd, 2009. Comment. 
Here is something new to me…
Google's First Click Free program.
This is a neat system, if one can implement it reasonably securely, whereby one can have one's subscription/paid content offered to Google searchers.
The idea is that if a searcher hits your paid for content from Google that they can see that content for free. If the visitor clicks on to additional content then they are presented with a payment/subscription box and they much pay before proceeding further.
Now, there are limitations to this – for example, folks can come back to different pages from Google and still see each of those pages for free but as a way of getting folks into your content other than via a sales page this looks kinda useful. I am thinking that the 'tasters' are unlikely to pay so one is not losing anything to them and one does not have to make the whole of the site's content available to First Click Free.
More info here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/first-click-free-for-web-search.html
Filed under Blog Promotion, Ideas and Tips, Making Money, Reviews by on Feb 9th, 2009. Comment.
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