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!
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Sara K {SaigeWisdom} says
June 18, 2012 at 2:51pmwow good sleuth work – there’s just SO much to learn. thanks for posting; look forward to the rest of the series :D
Kimberly says
June 19, 2012 at 4:45amGreat first post for Nitty Gritty. :)
Salena Lee says
June 19, 2012 at 8:05amAwesome! Love this! :)
Jeannie Clemens says
July 31, 2013 at 3:32pmAwesome is right! I am traveling, but as soon as I get home this is #1 on my “to do” list. So glad to be on Bloggers On Blogger with you. for what it’s worth
Sandy Campbell says
August 4, 2013 at 2:42pmHi Megan, where you have nos. 3 and 4 on your example….where you say to change the feed to this from this…they are the same. I don’t understand. Can you help me with that, alittle more. I have feedburner so why do I need to go in and change things? Not getting that part.
Pamela says
June 12, 2017 at 7:19amHi Megan, I’m reading your awesome tips.. I’m wondering if there is a way to show signature images from a blog when Feedburner sends out the email to subscribers? It strips it from the email, but all other images show. Can you offer any suggestions? Thanks so much..
Pamela says
June 12, 2017 at 7:20amOoops, forgot to mention, it’s for a Blogger blog. Thanks!
Megan says
June 13, 2017 at 9:09pmHi Pamela, thanks for reading! Whew it’s been a long time since I’ve worked on a Blogger blog, but my guess is that you have the signature image in the “post template” field in Blogger settings? If Feedburner is stripping it from the emails, I’m not sure there is a way you can make it show up. Feedburner is not very customizable. If it’s important to you, I’d suggest switching to an email service like MailChimp where you can add that image in the template for your RSS campaign. Or, you could start inserting the image manually at the end of every post (although you may end up with duplicates even if you delete the post template content- I seem to remember that being kind of fussy). Good luck!!
Pamela says
June 14, 2017 at 6:38amI can’t believe I didn’t even think of that, no, I had the coding for the signature in the template css.. so I added it to the Post Template and voila.. it now appears. My brain is mush!!!! lol Thanks so much!