Feb 24 2009
Feedburning Your Blog
Hello everyone. Today we are going to kick off our 19th Blogger lesson by taking a look at feedburning your blog. Why should you feedburn your Blogger blog?
Lesson 19: Feedburning Your Blog
If you’ve been creating good quality posts, you will start to see readers commenting. Now you should be looking at additional ways to make your blog reader-friendly.
Blogger offers the option of installing subscribe buttons in the sidebar. If you’ve been following these lessons you will have done this and some of your readers will be following your blog through subscribing via a reader.
Some people prefer to keep up with their favorite blogs through feed readers; others like to have newly created posts come directly to their inbox. I know that I opt for this option. Generally, I’m simply too busy to have to hunt up a reader and, if a person keeps up with a number of blogs like I do, it’s just so much easier to have those blog posts e-mailed via a feedburned blog.
How do you Feedburn your Blog?
Sign in to Google and go to “My Accounts.” A page will open. Look down to the left, where you’ll see the third heading: “Feedburner.” Click on that. Locate the section: “Burn a feed right this instant.” Type or paste your blog’s URL into the box. If you aren’t sure of your blog’s URL, simply go to your Blogger blog. Sign in and open your blog. Go to the upper left-hand corner and choose “send link” or position your mouse over the page, right-click and go down to where it says “properties.” Click on that and copy the URL.
Paste your blog URL into the box at Feedburner and burn your feed. Once this is done, click on your blog’s title. A page will open with a number of headings. choose “Publicize”and select “Email Subscriptions.” follow the page instructions and make sure to select “use a widget in Blogger.” Save your settings and check your blog to see if the button is installed.
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