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Does that sound harsh? Ok, maybe a little but it’s true and I’ll tell you why.
Feedburner makes it easy for anyone to subscribe to a blog with any type of feed reader or by email. It’s simple and fast and there is no copy and pasting.
If I come across a blog and it has decent content there is a good chance I’ll subscribe to it – unless they aren’t using Feedburner. When I subscribe to a blog that has Feedburner installed it is a couple of simple clicks. If I have to copy and paste a feed I might not bother with it unless it is a blog I really, really loved.
Before I tell you about some of the other great things Feedburner can do, watch this video from Ms. Ileane of Basic Blog Tips (and do check out her blog for more great stuff!):
Now, why else should you use Feedburner for all your RSS feeds?
- FeedFlare allows you to add links at the bottom of your RSS feed so people can automatically share the content
- You can create a Headline Animator that you can add in various places (like on other blogs you own)
- You can add an email subscription form
- You can publish automatically to your Twitter account (one of the good automatic things to do with Twitter)
- You can add Adsense to your feeds and use the opportunity to monetize the feed
- You can see how many people are subscribing to your blog, how they are subscribing, and what they are clicking on
Do you need any other reasons?
Go and burn your Feedburner RSS feed now and make sure your feeds are up to par!
Article by Danielle
I'm a social media junkie and professional freelance writer living in small town Manitoba, Canada. I drink a lot of coffee and love my computer (named Garcia after Penelope Garcia from Criminal Minds - the ultimate girl geek!), my kids, my husband, and my cats. In 10 years I hope to be that crazy lady travelling across Canada and the States with her three cats and her loving hubby. :) If you're interested in my professional services please visit my professional writer's site to find out more about my services or check out some testimonials from some of my clients.
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April 6, 2011 at 10:13 pm
Hey Daniella:
Nice post here about feed burner. Good information about adding it to twitter. Never thought of it before. I have a feeling almost all blogs use feed. May be not. I have used a few feeds online, right now I only use one.
Thanks for the post
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April 7, 2011 at 7:24 am
What? You don’t have to copy/paste the URL to a feed in order to subscribe to it.
What browser are you using? Firefox, Chrome or IE?
For most of the browsers, there are so-called plugins which let you subscribe to feeds with help of just one click which I’m pretty sure you’d like.
I’m not using feedburner and won’t do so either. Haven’t really found a reason to doing so just yet…
Thanks for the tip anyways, Danielle.
/Nabil.
Twitter: coachdiana11
April 7, 2011 at 9:56 am
Hi Danielle, I have just recently used the email subscribe form from Feedburner and didn’t know about it until this week. Thanks for sharing this because I didn’t even know that you could add Adsense to the feed. I will definitely look into that in the future.
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April 8, 2011 at 9:11 am
Danielle,
Feedburner does have some nice built in easy to use tools, like the automatic email. It is a great Google product.
Every blog already has a built in feed. Usually it is the name of your blog and the word feed. For example:
http://http://yourblogname.com/feed.
I have chosen not to use Feedburner for technical reasons. So I have had to find other sources for things like setting up my email. It is a little more work.
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I didn’t know about using feed burner with twitter.It sounds interesting and I will try it out.
Using feed burner with twittter sounds like a good idea to me. I was not aware of this feature.
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Twitter: Ileane
October 15, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Hi Danielle,
Thanks for sharing my YouTube tutorial in this post. I’m learning so much about Feedburner and how it works for audio podcasting – and I even discovered the other day that you can burn a feed for your YouTube videos too. I guess it was there all along, but I wasn’t paying it any attention.
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October 15, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Really? you can burn a feed for your YouTube videos? now that is something that I have to check out. Do you have a video on how to do that, too?
Thanks for the tip Ileane.
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