Feedburner - Making Feeds Friendly
All websites these days MUST have a news feed.
It’s not only a hot trend, it’s great for SEO, and a great way to stay connected with readers.
If you run a non-Wordpress site head on over to Feedburner.com and follow the instructions.
If you do run a Wordpress site you can install the handy Feedburner Feedsmith Plugin.
Once you have all that setup here are a few options I always turn on.
Login to Feedburner, select your feed and:
In Optimize:
1. Click SmartFeed and enable it for maximum compatibility.
2. Click FeedFlare and add all your favorite social networking sites. This adds links right into your feed!
In Publicize:
1. Click Chicklet Chooser - get a chicklet for your site if you don’t already have one.
Be sure to just browse through the options as there are many good ones I didn’t mention.
Now from time to time you can head on over to FeedBurner and see how many subscribers you really have.
They use an averaging system which looks at how many referalls your feed gets each day.
It’s a great way to track your popularity and a great way to make your feed human readable and not a mess of XML when they click on it.
If you found this page useful, consider linking to it.
Simply copy and paste the code below into your web site (Ctrl+C to copy)
It will look like this: Feedburner - Making Feeds Friendly