Feeds are one the ways that website contents can be distributed to bloggers and podcasters using browsers. Not very reader prefers visiting your blog or website and checking everything. Some just interested in the information in it. For the convenience of them, you should build a feed for your blog or website content if you think it’s worth reading.
Feedburner is a free web feed service provided by Google to manage the feeds. It also provides traffic analysis and advertising like Adsense as well. Plus, Feedburner also syndicate your feeds with some popular web-based readers MyYahoo, Newsgator, My AOL, bloglines, netvibes, iGoogle and Pageflakes.
Anyway, in this article, you will be guided step by step with screenshots to create a feedburner feed. As many readers tend to subscribe via RSS because it’s more advantageous, we’ll discuss about creating a RSS feed.
Any blogger blog originally has a feed most often as follows.
http://yourblogadress.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
http://yourblogadress.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Feedburner Usage
STEP 1 :
Go to feedburner.google.com (opens in a new window)
STEP 2 :
Login using your Google username and password.
STEP 3 :
At the Dashboard, in the text field provided add your blog or feed address. Then click on Next.
STEP 4 :
If you added your blog address, another window will appear and ask for you to identify the feed source. Select the RSS feed and click on Next.
IF YOU ADDED FEED ADDRESS SKIP THIS STEP
STEP 5 :
In the next window, you have to provide a title and an address for your feed. Add the title of your blog or a proper title for your feed and an available address. Finally click on Next.
blogspot/AcNDj is an automatically generated address.
NOTE: You might not be able to get the address you like due to unavailability
STEP 6 :
Your feedburner feed is now created and you can access it by the link shown in the image below. Click on Next.
STEP 7 :
In the next tab, check Clickthroughs check box to trace clickthrough rates for your blog and I want more! check box for integrate additional services Feedburner provides.
Finally, you will have a window as follows to confirm that you have successfully updated the settings.
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