How to Burn Blogger RSS Feeds at Feedburner

What is RSS?

A RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed is a XML-based format for your content. Most blogging platforms, for example, will have an RSS feed built in. Whenever you start publishing posts, your latest posts will be updated in the RSS feed. Visitors to your website can subscribe to your blog’s RSS feed in an RSS reader such as Google Reader.

What is FeedBurner?

Most blogs have RSS feed which is detected automatically by commonly used feed readers when the blog URL is added to the reader.

However, if you want to make it more obvious and easier for readers to subscribe using RSS, or want to know exactly how many people subscribe to your blog then the best option is to add a Feedburner RSS feed and email subscription to your blog.

Feedburner is a free web service which enhances bloggers and podcasters ability to manage their RSS feeds and track usage of their subscribers.

How to create a feed with feedburner

1. Go to Feedburner and sign in to Feedburner with your Google Account (create a Google Account first if you don’t have one).

2. To set up your RSS feed with Feedburner, simply copy the URL of your RSS feed and paste it into the “Burn a feed right this instant” box. Then click Next >>

3. On the next screen, choose the second options - RSS.

4. On the next screen you will be given your RSS feed’s new URL on Feedburner. You will want to use this URL anywhere you reference your RSS feed on your blog. Change the feed title and address with your own.

5. When you click on Next, you will be given the options to setup tracking features for your RSS feed.
Check "Clickthroughs" and "I want more!..." options.

Adding Your Feedburner Feed To Your Blog

This is used to add the RSS icon and easy subscribe options to your blog side bar using a text widget as explained below:

1. Click on the Publicize Tab > Chicklet Chooser in your Feedburner account and copy the HTML code.

2. Go to Blogger Dashboard > Design > Page Elements and add a new gadget

3. Select HTML/JavaScript from the pop-up window and paste the html code in the box.

Adding a FeedBurner Email Subscription

After you have set up your feed, you will want to consider giving visitors the option to subscribe to your content via email. If so, you will want to go to the Publicize tab and click on Email Subscriptions. Click on the Activate button to start email subscription service for your RSS feed.

You will then want to click on Communication Preferences in the left sidebar menu. This will allow you to customize the activation email subscribers receive to confirm their subscription.

Once customized, click Save. The next options you will want to configure are under Email Branding in the left sidebar menu. This is where you can upload a logo, customize the Email Subject line, and change the font styles, colors, and sizes to format the email subscribers will receive. Click Save when finished.
The last (and most important) setting for your email subscription is the Delivery Options. This is where you will tell Feedburner what time to deliver new RSS feed updates to subscribers.

Once saved, click on the Subscription Management link. Here, you can get the code to add a subscription form on your blog or you can get a link to your take visitors to the opt-in form for subscribing via email.

To add it on your blog:

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard > Design > Page Elements

2. Add a new Gadget

3. Select HTML/JavaScript & paste the code in the box.

Redirecting All Your Blog Feed To Feedburner

Unless you redirect all your blog feed to Feedburner you won’t get accurate subscriber numbers because some of your readers subscribe using your original blog feed.

To do this:

1. Go to Settings > Site Feed in your blog dashboard

2. Add your Feedburner address to Post Feed Redirect URL and click Save Changes.

3. Now all your feeds is automatically redirected through FeedBurner and you’ll be able to track subscribers.

If you are enjoying reading this blog, please consider Subscribing!

Add A One Time Email Subscription Pop Up Form To Blogger

So many blogs and websites i visit these days have implemented a pop up subscription form for their newsletter.I'm sure you have seen it, you land on a site and after a few seconds a form appears asking for your Email to subscribe.While these can annoy some people they have been proven to have a dramatic effect on the numbers of subscribers.In this post i will show you how to add a similar form to your Blogger blog but with a form to subscribe to your blog via Email Rss provided by feedburner.The form is a one time pop up so if someone visits your blog every day it will remember they visited before and not show the form again.
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Optimize And Personalize Your Feedburner Email Rss - Video Post

Email subscriptions are an option every blogger simply must provide and there is one service that dominates Email Rss.The Google owned feedburner does it better that anyone else.In this post we are looking at how you can get the most from the Email Feed offered on your blog.If you have not got a Feedburner Feed or Email Feed check out How To Create A Feedburner Feed For Your Blog.This is a video post and in the video we will be covering the three main areas of your Email Feed and how you can optimize and personalize them.
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New Subscribe By Email Rss Form For Blogger

In the last post we got a sneak preview of the New Blogger Design coming in 2011, Blogger had also promised lots more new features.And just a day later they have added an Email Rss Form to the Gadget Directory so you can easily provide the option for your readers to get your latest posts delivered to their inbox.By coincidence i also published a post this week about how Google connect their other services with Blogger and the Email Rss Form is connected with the Google owned Feedburner.

Email Rss has been provided by Feedburner for a long time and before you had the option to "Burn A Feed" for your blog, Activate Email Rss, Grab The Code For The Email Form and then paste it into a Html/Javascript gadget on your sidebar.Now this whole process has been cut down to 3 clicks without the need to leave Blogger.

"...The Follow by Email gadget provides blog authors a simple way for their readers to subscribe to the latest hot-off-the-press updates, which are delivered directly to the reader’s inbox. When new blog content is published, all subscribed readers will receive a daily email notification of the new published posts, which includes a copy of the new content as well as links back to the actual posts..."

So lets first look at a screenshot and then how you add the Email Rss form to your blog.

Screenshot Of Email Rss Form

Add The New Email Rss Gadget To Your Blog

Step 1. In your Blogger Dashboard Click Design > Add A Gadget





Step 2. You will see the new option "Follow By Email" at the top of the list, click the plus.




Step 3. You Will now be brought to a Page with options for your feed and the title of the gadget.If you already have a feedburner feed you can enter it were shown below, if you don't have a feed one will automatically generated for you.



Step 4. You can now save the gadget.

Options - I would highly recommend you take advantage of some of the other options available on feedburner.Remember once you add this gadget to your blog a Feedburner account is automatically created for you.You can log into this account with the same Email and Password as you log into Blogger - Log Into Feedburner.

That's your new Email Rss form, i may look at some Css options to Spice It Up a bit so keep an eye out for that.Check out some more Feedburner Tips and Blogger Gadgets on Spice Up Your Blog.

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Get More Feedburner Email Subscribers To Verify Their Subscription

Most Bloggers Have A Subscribe By Email Rss Option On Their Blog Provided By Feedburner.When A Visitor To Your Blog Fills Out The Subscription Form They Must Confirm Or Verify Via An Email.However Often As Many As One In Five People Do Not Verify, Thus They Do Not Become Subscribers And Receive Your Latest Posts.In This Post I Will Share With You Some Methods That Will Help Get More Verified Email Rss Subscribers.

At the time of writing Spice Up Your Blog has just over 500 Rss Subscribers of which just over 300 subscribe by Email.Of that 300 an Amazing 92 have not verified their subscription !This is 92 regular readers lost, almost all of these people just didn't know they needed to verify or did not understand the Verification Email.
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4 Eye Catching Subscribe To Feed Banners For Below Blog Posts

Hi Guys ! When going through an old Photobucket account i came across a few Rss feed banners i have used below posts on different Blogs.Were you place your Feed options on your blog can have a huge effect the number of readers that take up the option to Subscribe.It's also important that the way your feed options are presented grab the attention of readers.So many websites and Blogs use the standard Rss Icon it has become White Noise.So in this post we will cover both placing a Feed option in Prime position and using a Rss Banner that will grab the attention of the reader.

When Readers reach the end of a post they think 'What Next?' and it's your job to make sure the next step they take is of benefit to your blog.This is why the top blogs have Rss options, Share and Bookmark Options, Related Posts and AdSense or other Advertising Directly below posts, of course they also have the option to comment.Click on any of those links to find out how to add each option below your blog posts, you can also add a Subscribe by Email form below your posts by checking out this post - 5 Stylish Feedburner Email Subscription Forms.So lets look at the three banners and see how you can put them below your blog posts.

Subscribe To Feed Banners Below Posts

Banner 1



Banner 1 Code

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/spiceupyourblog" title="Subscribe To Our Rss Feed">

Banner 2




Banner 2 Code

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/spiceupyourblog" title="Subscribe To Our Rss Feed">

Banner 3



Banner 3 Code

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/spiceupyourblog" title="Subscribe To Our Rss Feed">

Banner 4.



Banner 4 Code

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/spiceupyourblog" title="Subscribe To Our Rss Feed">

Note - You must change the URL in red to your Feed URL.

Place The Banner Below Your Posts On Blogger

Step 1. In your Blogger Dashboard click 'Layout/Design' > 'Edit Html' > Tick the 'Expand Widget Templates' box









Step 2. Find The Following Piece Of Code In Your Blogs Html :
(Click 'Ctrl and F' for a search bar to find the code - More Info)

Step 3. Place the code for your Rss Banner Directly Below / Under

Extra Note - If your Blog uses the 'Read More' or 'Post Summerys' feature you may want the banner to only be on the posts and not on the home page.If so place this snippet above your banner code : And place this below you banner code :

Once you have the banner code in your template Save and your Done !

You can of course use or create your own banner and for future reference remember everything you place below appears below your posts after the last line of text, every thing you place Directly Above appears at the top of your posts before the first line.Check out some of our other Great posts with Rss Feed Tips And Tricks.

Remember to Subscribe to Our Feed and let us know what you think below !

Change The Number Of Posts Displayed In Your Feedburner Feed

Your Blogs Rss Feed by default displays the latest 25 posts.This is true with the default Blogger feed and the Feedburner feed.Most blogs are using the Feedburner feed provided by Google and if you don't you should (How To Get A Feedburner Feed).You can change the number of posts displayed on your feed page to any number of posts you like and in this post i will show you how it's done and why you should change.

You may think the reason for changing the number of posts displayed in your feedburner would be to increase it, but in fact it's the opposite.Most people that visit your blogs feed have got there from your blog so they have seen your posts and are there to subscribe.You want as many Rss subscribers as possible so you want to make subscribing as easy as possible.

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How To Put Rss Feed Options Below All Your Blog Posts

In a post from last month we looked at a few ways of spicing up you Rss feed options and in particular the Subscribe by Email option.That post showed you five different options and styles you could use instead of the default feedburner Email subscriptions form.If your not totally sure how Email subscriptions work you can check out this post on setting up Email subscriptions for your blog : Maximize Feedburner Email Subscriptions.

In this post i will show you how to offer readers the option to subscribe to your blog under every post.By placing the Rss options under every post in your blog you are sure to see the subscriber count raise.You can use the default Feedburner Email form or link below your posts but i would recommend going to the post i mentioned above and choseing from one of the - 5 Stylish Feedburner Email Subscription Forms.Adding the form below your posts couldnt be easier.





Put Feedburner Email Subscription Form Below All Posts

This tutorial will show you how to place the Email form code below the posts - to find out how to get the code needed check out the links above.

Step 1. In your Blogger Dashboard click 'Layout' > 'Edit Html' > Tick the 'Expand Widget Templates' box


Step 2. Find The Following Piece Of Code In Your Blogs Html :
(Click 'Ctrl and F' for a search bar to find the code - More Info)

The code may be in your blogs html twice if so it the second one you want.

Step 3. Place the code for your Email subscription box Directly Below / Under

Once in place you can save your template and the rss subscriptions option will be below all your blog posts.

Further help is only a comment away.

5 Stylish FeedBurner Email Subscription Forms For Your Blog

In yesterdays post we looked at the options and settings for the Feedburner Email subscription service.As i said in that post providing your readers with the option to subscribe by Email is not an added extra it is an absolute must.Feed burner help make it easier by providing code for a link or a submission form you can add to your blog.

When you activate the email subscriptions in your feedburner account you have two pieces of code you can add to your blog

1. A link people can click for a pop up window, in the window they can enter their Email and fill the word verification form to subscribe.
2. An Email form, a form embedded on your blog were people can enter their email and when they click subscribe they fill the word verification.

In my experience and from what i hear from most bloggers using the Email form will increase the amount of subscribers to your blog.

Here is the default Feedburner form :

Enter your email address:


Delivered by FeedBurner

As you can see it is very basic and extremely bland.

The Email form i use is a bit more stylish here is a working example :


Receive The Latest Posts Directly To Your Email - It's Free:

Enter Your Email And Click Subscribe

So in this post i will show you a few different Email forms you can add to your blog.Before you add any form to your blog make sure you have activated Email subscriptions in your Feed Burner account.

Adding the new form

Once you choose the form you want to use copy the code and add it to your blog or replace your current form.

You Must Make 2 Changes To The Form You Pick :

You will see spiceupyourblog in red twice in each code change that to your Feedburner I.D.

Your Feed burner I.D. is the piece that appears at the end of your Feedburner URL.

For example mine is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/spiceupyourblog
If yours was: http://feeds.feedburner.com/myblog

You would change spiceupyourblog to myblog

Here are the forms you can use :

Preview.

Receive The Latest Posts Directly To Your Email - It's Free:

Enter Your Email And Click Subscribe

Code.

Receive The Latest Posts Directly To Your Email - It's Free:

Enter Your Email And Click Subscribe

SpiceUpYourBlog', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true">SpiceUpYourBlog" name="uri" type="hidden">

Here is the same form but this time i have placed text inside the form instead of above the form.

Preview:

Receive The Latest Posts Directly To Your Email - It's Free:

Code.

Receive The Latest Posts Directly To Your Email - It's Free:

spiceupyourblog', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true">
Enter Email Here" onfocus="this.value=''" type="text">
SpiceUpYourBlog" name="uri" type="hidden">

Preview:

Receive The Latest Posts Directly To Your Email - It's Free:

Enter Your Email And Click Subscribe

Code.

Receive The Latest Posts Directly To Your Email - It's Free:

Enter Your Email And Click Subscribe

SpiceUpYourBlog', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true">SpiceUpYourBlog" name="uri" type="hidden">

Preview:

Receive The Latest Posts Directly To Your Email - It's Free:

Enter Your Email And Click Subscribe

Code.

Receive The Latest Posts Directly To Your Email - It's Free:

Enter Your Email And Click Subscribe

SpiceUpYourBlog', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true">SpiceUpYourBlog" name="uri" type="hidden">

These are all very basic easy changes but they spice up the look and feel of your blog.If you feel comfortable making more changes you could use your own images and play around with the code some more.

Rss Station

Would you like to have the same complete rss station as i currently use ?

Remember you can get all these tips sent directly to your email and stay a step ahead.Its a quick and easy service Provided for Free by Google.Just fill in the Email form below the post.
If you need extra help on this or any tutorial just leave a comment, I love comments and feedback so this Blog is Do-Follow - when you comment here it helps Your Blogs Google rank !

This is the rss station i am using at the moment, it may have changed by the time you read this.

Included is a Rss feed link, A Twitter Link, Rss Email Form, What is Rss Link and a button to show off how many subscribers you have :

Here is the Preview :

Subscribe To The Latest Tips & Tricks

Follow @PaulCrowePro On Twitter

Receive The Latest Posts Directly To Your Email - It's Free: Enter Your Email And Click Subscribe

What Is Rss / Feeds / Subscribe ?

And here is the code for the Rss station :

http://feeds.feedburner.com/spiceupyourblog" target="_blank">

Subscribe To The Latest Tips & Tricks

http://twitter.com/paulcrowepro" target="_blank">

Follow @PaulCrowePro On Twitter

Receive The Latest Posts Directly To Your Email - It's Free: Enter Your Email And Click Subscribe SpiceUpYourBlog', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true">SpiceUpYourBlog" name="uri" type="hidden">

What Is Rss / Feeds / Subscribe ?

http://feeds.feedburner.com/SpiceUpYourBlog">SpiceUpYourBlog?bg=FF9900&fg=000000&anim=1" style="border: 0pt none ;" alt="" height="26" width="88" />

Note. You will need to change the links in red to your feedburner and twitter links, and you can change the text in bold to suit your blog, feed and Twitter accounts.

If you are starting out and dont have many subscribers you may not want the counter displayed, if so remove the this part at the bottom :

http://feeds.feedburner.com/SpiceUpYourBlog">SpiceUpYourBlog?bg=FF9900&fg=000000&anim=1" style="border: 0pt none ;" alt="" height="26" width="88" />

You should always have the Subscription options near the top of your blog.


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