How to Burn Your Blogger Feed in Feedburner

You just finished your first blog post. Wow. Now how do you make it to Web 2.0? Google bought a feed service called Feedburner. If you go to Wikipedia and search for Feedburner, you’ll find feedback on viewer tracking and direct RSS feeds from blogs. This is to provide updates from your blog automatically to subscribers. Visitors to your blog can get an RSS feed by subscribing. One of the best providers of this service is Feedburner.

OK, that’s part of why. If you have a new blog, then you want to know how. Go to the feedburner website. Click register. You will be redirected to a registration page. Choose a username (make it obscure as most of the common names have been taken). Choose a password. Specify a personal question and the answer. Click sign in. You will be redirected to your myfeeds page. Since you haven’t recorded any feeds yet, none will appear in the list. Once you’ve saved some feeds, they’ll appear on this page with the feed title, subscribers, and site visitors.

To record your first feed, type the full URL of your blog where it says, record a feed now. For now ignore the podcasting and click next. You will be redirected to a page titled Identity Feed Source. Choose the RSS feed, the second option offered if you use Blogger. Click Next. You are now on a page titled Welcome! Let us record a feed for you. Make sure the feed title and address are correct. Press turn on power. You are now in the title of a page, Congratulations, your Feedburner feed is now live. Press next. You are now in Get More Gusto. Check the box for I want more to track Feedburner… Click next. You are now on the feed management page for the blog feed you just recorded.

This is the page from which you can update your feed with extras. To access this page at a later time, simply return to the Feedburner home page. Sign in with your username and password. You should now be on the myfeeds page which lists all your feeds. To go to the feed management page for a specific feed, click the feed name in the list.

To fill in most of the details associated with recording a feed, go to the feed management page for that feed. Click on the advertising tab. In the body of the page, make it easy to subscribe to the section, chicklet your website, click the link, friendly graphic. You will be redirected to the page, Chicklet launcher. Leave the larger icon selected and scroll down to the bottom of the page. On the line, use as a widget, use the dropdown to select, blogger. Press go.

You will be redirected to the Add Page Element page in Blogger. Select the correct blog on the first line. Edit the title line to your preference, I usually leave it blank. Click edit content link. Scroll down to the last line of code. I change the copy from ‘Subscribe in a reader’ to ‘Get RSS feed’. This is optional and your choice. Press Add widget. You will be redirected to your blogger page, Add and arrange page elements. See your blog. If you want to make changes, go back to Add and arrange page elements.

Go to your Blogger dashboard, on the blog you’ve recorded the feed for, select the Settings tab. On the Settings page, select Site Feed. Under Site Feed, make sure Allow Blog Feeds is set to maximum. In the post feed url redirection section, type the url of the feed. This can be confirmed by going back to your myfeeds page. Hovering over the feed icon to the left of the feed you’re working on will display the feed’s URL. When entering the url, the full url must be included.

There are additional options and additional bells and whistles with Feedburner and related services. By following this recording procedure each time you create a blog, you will put it in a position to be active in Web 2.0.