One of the best ways to get the most out of your WordPress blog or website RSS feed is to run it though Google's Feedburner service.
This is a free service that gives you all sorts of cool features and benefits allowing you to really get the most out of your feed.
Like most services that Google offers Feedburner is free, which is always nice.
To sign up all you'll need is a free Google account (which you probably have already), the URL of your website or blog RSS feed and about 10 minutes.
To start out just head over to the Feedburner website and let's run down some of the options.
Right off the bat, in the middle of the page, you'll see a text field with this above it "Burn a feed right this instant.
Type your blog or feed address here:" and simply paste your Feed URL right there and click Next.
The following page will show you the feed title as it will appear to you in Feedburner and the new feed URL.
This is often by default the first part of your website name.
You can edit this to pretty much whatever you want but try and keep it branded or at least very short.
Now click Next.
On the following screen your see "Congrats! Your FeedBurner feed is now live.
Want to dress it up a little?"At the bottom of this page, rather than clicking on the Next button, click on the link that says "Skip Directly to Feed Management" as, for some reason, I've always found this to be an easier way to go.
Now for the basic setup.
On this next page I always do the following for a new feed: 1) Click on the Optimize Tab at the top of the page 2) Activate Smart Feed 3) Activate Feed Flare and include, under the Site column, Email this, Email the Author, Subscribe to this feed, Save to del.
icio.
us, Share on Facebook, and Stumble it.
Depending on the content of your site you may wish to add more or others.
4) Click on the Publicize Tab at the top of the page 5) Activate Email Subscriptions allowing your readers to get your posts via email.
6) Activate Ping Shot.
7) Activate and play around with FeedCount.
This allows you to put a button on your site which lets people not only signup but displays how many feed readers you have.
I highly encourage you to explore all the options and features that Feed burner offers.
You can track your subscribers, where they come from and more.
It's a great tool and one that I've got a ton of return on.
This is a free service that gives you all sorts of cool features and benefits allowing you to really get the most out of your feed.
Like most services that Google offers Feedburner is free, which is always nice.
To sign up all you'll need is a free Google account (which you probably have already), the URL of your website or blog RSS feed and about 10 minutes.
To start out just head over to the Feedburner website and let's run down some of the options.
Right off the bat, in the middle of the page, you'll see a text field with this above it "Burn a feed right this instant.
Type your blog or feed address here:" and simply paste your Feed URL right there and click Next.
The following page will show you the feed title as it will appear to you in Feedburner and the new feed URL.
This is often by default the first part of your website name.
You can edit this to pretty much whatever you want but try and keep it branded or at least very short.
Now click Next.
On the following screen your see "Congrats! Your FeedBurner feed is now live.
Want to dress it up a little?"At the bottom of this page, rather than clicking on the Next button, click on the link that says "Skip Directly to Feed Management" as, for some reason, I've always found this to be an easier way to go.
Now for the basic setup.
On this next page I always do the following for a new feed: 1) Click on the Optimize Tab at the top of the page 2) Activate Smart Feed 3) Activate Feed Flare and include, under the Site column, Email this, Email the Author, Subscribe to this feed, Save to del.
icio.
us, Share on Facebook, and Stumble it.
Depending on the content of your site you may wish to add more or others.
4) Click on the Publicize Tab at the top of the page 5) Activate Email Subscriptions allowing your readers to get your posts via email.
6) Activate Ping Shot.
7) Activate and play around with FeedCount.
This allows you to put a button on your site which lets people not only signup but displays how many feed readers you have.
I highly encourage you to explore all the options and features that Feed burner offers.
You can track your subscribers, where they come from and more.
It's a great tool and one that I've got a ton of return on.
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