Nitty Gritty: Feedburner Day One

Hi everyone, and welcome to Day One of The Nitty Gritty of Blogging! This week I’m going to be talking all about Feedburner, and how you can use it to enhance your blogging experience.

Last month I asked these questions, among others:

1. Feedburner- What is this? I have two (probably from getting my own domain), one with 11 subscribers, and one with 135. Is there a way to combine them? How do you use this, or do you?

2. RSS feed- How do you “follow by RSS?” Is that different from following in a reader, such as Bloglovin’ or Google Reader? What kind of interface is it?

3. At the bottom of Blogger blogs, it says “Subscribe to: Posts (atom).” What does that mean?!

6. How do you know how many email followers you have? Is there a way to customize the emails that get sent?

I spent some time researching, and I learned the answers, plus a lot more! These questions will be answered throughout the week, so keep coming back!

To Remove “Subscribe to: Posts (atom)”:1. Go to your Dashboard, select “Template,” and then “Edit HTML.”

2. Check the box to expand widget templates.

3. Press ctrl+F to bring up the “find” box, and find this code:

4. Replace that code with this:

5. Preview your blog to make sure it worked, and then save template.

*Poof* all gone!

Now you need a better way to get your readers to follow you via RSS. All you need to do is add a link to your feed address (which you now know, right?).

Most bloggers use a radar button such as this one:

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Many bloggers use their own custom image, such as mine:

Whichever you choose, just link the button to your feed URL, and you’ll be all set!

Whew, still with me?!

The rest of this week’s posts will be shorter and sweeter, I promise! Now that you know what Feedburner is, and how to get set up with it, I will show you some really cool features to get the most out of it!

See my full list of Feedburner tips!

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Thanks for stopping by!