Market Your Feeds Better with FeedBurner

You are a blogger and are glad to see traffic on your website. However, do you have any clues of how does your blog feed look like? How many feed readers you have and are they happy with the feed?

Top blogs have a large number feed subscribers and with services like feedburner, one can optimize as well as monetize a blog feed.

Before getting into all that, one needs to visualize how your blog feed appears on popular readers like Google Reader, Feed daemon, etc.

Quick steps to setup your blog feeds;

1. Go to Word Press Admin panel -> Settings –> Reading. Select Full text for feeds.

   

2. Log on to feedburner and create an account. Add and verify your blog.
3. Head over to Your Feed burner feed management section, click on your feed and select Edit feed details. For Original Feed URL put http://www.yourblog.com/feed

 

4. Go to Optimize -> Summary burner and make sure that Summary burner isn’t active.

   

5. Use  Flagrant disregard Feedburner Plugin to allow automatic detection of your feedburner feed when a visitors subscribes to your blog’s feed.

Now that everything is done head over to Google Reader, or any Feed reader and check out your feed. It should display the full feed!

When you’re done, you’ll have better looking feeds that are easier to read and look far more professional.

Further, you may explore feedburner’s possibilities which include features like monetizing your feeds, analyzing your feed readers, etc.

With feedburner, there is always more that you can do. Burn your feed today, if you haven’t already. Happy feed burning!

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