Feedburner and Blogging
If you run your own blog you will probably have a number of subscribers via your blog’s RSS feed. RSS is a great way to get new content out to subscribers quickly but it can be hard to know how many subscribers you have and what (if anything) they are doing with your content.This is where Feedburner comes in.
FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. Their Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web and best of all the service is FREE.
Feedburner is really easy to set up. Visit www.feedburner.com, sign up and enter the address of your feed : e.g. http://www.blogni.net/feed (that simple). Set up is instant and offers the ability to :
- Publicise your content and make it easy for people to subscribe.
- Optimise distribution so that your content is properly formatted for all of the major directories and can be consumed by subscribers wherever they are.
- Analyse your traffic to learn how many subscribers you have, where they’re coming from and what they like best.
The Break Down
Automatically notify directories and web-based aggregators when you publish new content in your feed. With Feedburner you can add 5 additional services who are automatically ‘pinged’ (another word for notified) when you update your blog.
Email Subscription
Give subscribers the convenience of receiving your feed content updates via email. A number of WordPress themes now have forms for this service builtin all you have to do is add a feedburner code in the settings page of the WordPress admin.
Put your feeds front and center. Serve them from your own domain.
Have feed, will travel. BuzzBoost republishes your burned feed’s content as go-anywhere HTML.
Chicklet Chooser
Take the mystery out of subscribing to a feed! Offer easy-to-use subscription buttons directly on your site. (Chicklet Chooser now includes a time-saving “AutoCopy” feature just for TypePad users!)
Headline Animator
Promote the most recent content in your feed using this compact, dynamically generated graphic.
FeedCount
Publicize your circulation statistics directly on your blog (or anywhere else you can post HTML).
WordPress Plugin
If you use WordPress as your blogging platform you don’t have to worry about changing your theme or telling subscribers you have moved to Feedburner. Feedburner have a plugin for WordPress that automatically redirects all RSS traffic to your Feedburner address. Easy!
Why not subscribe to our Feedburner RSS Feed by clicking here.
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