Have You Burned Your RSS Feed With Feedburner?

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What is Feedburner? Here’s from the horse mouth: FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. Our Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web.

In simple term, it is the 3rd party application designed to easily manage your RSS subscription and more. With FeedBurner, [1] it will redirect your WordPress default feed into a single interface and [2] re-distribute it to all your subscribers in one single standardized format. [3] It has options to add more cool features to your RSS contents. [4] More importantly, it helps to simplify the process of subscribing with just “one easy click”. The fact is many are still not accustomed to what RSS is all about. Hence, FeedBurner makes it a whole lot easier.

If you already own a blog and you have not done anything to your RSS feed, now it’s about time you sign up with FeedBurner and start ‘burning’ your feed to ‘boost’ your RSS subscribers.

I can’t say much for you but in my opinion, FeedBurner may not have the most user-friendly interface for a beginner to start with, let alone understand the need to ‘burn’ the feed. For the sake of simplicity, I’m going to walk through you with the basic process of using FeedBurner to manage your RSS feed.

How do you ‘burn’ your RSS feed?

1. The first thing you need to do is to enter your blog URL to “Start FeedBurning Now” form.

2. Next select one to use as your source — select the RSS 2.0 feed i.e. looks like this http://thoushallblog.com/feed/

3. Now give your feed its title and feedburner.com address

4. It is also here on the same page where you choose your username and password and providing your email address. Once all is done, click Activate Feed and you’re now ready to make your FeedBurner feed available on your blog!

Stay tuned to my next article on How To Redirect Your Feed to FeedBurner. I hope you are fine so far.

For more information on how to burn your feed if using other blogging platforms, check out FeedBurner QuickStart Guide.