Saturday, March 8, 2008

Why do I burn my feed


Burn your feed now with FeedBurner. It is completely free. It is a new feed management provider whcih has sophisticated tools to manage feeds of bloggers, podcasters and other content publishers. FeedBurner is the easiest way to convert feed. It can convert from and to any version of RSS or Atom. If you burn your feed your visitors subscribe to your feed, they will use FeedBurner URL to reach you in lieu of your original feed. Actually Feedburner transforms your URL to appropriate web feed format which is suuported with that RSS readers. Feedburner hosted feeds for more than 250000 publishers and delivered feeds to more than 19 million subscribers. You can easily know how many visitors have subscribed to your blog and which post is the most popular. Feedburner lets you insert your Flickr pictures or del.icio.us links automatically in your feeds. Create your feed burner account. Enter your blog's web address in the "Ready to Burn" in the FeedBurner's home page. On "Welcome", make sure the title and FeedBurner address (URL) of your new feed are values you prefer.click Activate Feed. A "Congrats" your feedburner blogger feed is now ready. Read all of the information on "Congrats", then click 'Next' to continue with the setup process.
To redirect your feed:
Open your blogger account in a new browser window. Then go to your Dashboard, click on the 'Setting' tab. click site feed link. type your full FeedBurner feed with "http://" portion into the "Post Feed Redirect URL' text field. Save setting. You are done. Now promot your FeedBurner on your Blogger site. For this Click on "Publicize" tab. A list of publicity related topics will appear. Click on "Checklet Chooser" service- a form will appear. the form is full of several options to promote your Feed Burner feed.Click the radio button next to the button you want to display on your site.Click the drop-down and select "Blogger" to add the chicklet as a widget.Blogger will open in a new window. Follow the prompts there to continue to add the new widget.

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