RSS - Feeds setup with Google Feedburner for Your Blogger Blog - BGBeginner

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What is RSS?

RSS, standing for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary, uses several standard web feed formats to publish content in a structured XML file for syndication. An XML file in this format is called an RSS Feed. This format allows automatic syndication of data and the XML file ensure compatibility across numerous machines and programs.

The data included in the feed usually includes any content that is regularly updated on blogs such as news headlines or media. RSS allows users to receive updates from their favourite sites automatically rather than having to manually check them. They can subscribe to a website’s feed using RSS feed readers. These feed readers can be desktop based or web based if their browser has a feed reader built in. The feed reader checks the user’s feeds regularly for new information and downloads it.

Why Bloggers use Feedburner?

Feedburner is a product from Google and it is trusted and used by most of the bloggers. The reason is Feedburner has bunch of options for you as well as your readers.

You can provide your users with multiple options to subscribe
By using Feedburner you can automatically tweet your new posts
You can find the number of subscribers to your blog feeds
You will have lots of options to optimize and publicize your feeds.

There are still more features to go, which we will cover later in this article. Now we will start setting up Feedburner for Blogger.

Setup Feedburner to Blogger

First go to Feedburner and login with your Google Account.
Now type your blog URL in the burn a feed text field and click next button.

Again click on next button on the new page.

Enter your feed title and feed address as shown below and click next.

Now your feed is live. Click on next button.

On the next page you will get some options. Simply check those options which you want and press next button.

Now you have completed all the steps successfully. You will receive a congratulation message on your screen.

Redirect Blogger Feeds to FeedBurner

Once you setup feedburner for your blog you have to redirect your blog feed to the feedburner feed. To do this simply follow the below steps.

Go to your blogger dashboard.
Go to settings >> Other >> and then navigate to “Site Feed“
Click on edit link and enter your feedburner feed URL in the Post Feed Redirect URL text field.
redirect feed
Now click on Save Settings button.
You are done!

Configuring Feedburner for Blogger

Go to analyze tab and you can see a note saying “your feed is so new we are still playing with the bubble wrap” which is common. Just leave it.

Now move on to optimize tab and then activate browser friendly which makes your readers easy to subscribe to your feed. Activate smart feed and in feed flare check required services and activate it, so that users can share your feeds. Also activate summary burner, so instead of showing full posts in your feeds you can just show summary, so that your subscribers will visit your site to read more.

How to setup Feedburner for Blogger blogOnce done move on to publicize tab. In publicize tab activate Email Subscriptions in which all your latest blog post will be send to your subscribers inbox. After activation, Feedburner provides you a code which you can use it in your widget to show a simple subscription form. Also its recommended that you activate ping shot which notifies several services when you make a new post.

Above mentioned are recommended service that you need to activate, but as you like you can activate additional services that you want.

November 07, 2014