How do I promote my FeedBurner feed on my Blogger site?

One of the ways to promote your FeedBurner feed on your Blogger site is by using FeedBurner's Publicity Tools to select a "chicklet" image to display a link to your FeedBurner feed from your blog's homepage.

1. Click the Publicize tab.

A list of publicity-related services appears.

2. Locate and click the Chicklet Chooser service.

The form shown below loads into the right side of the screen:

This form contains several options for buttons that promote (and link to) your FeedBurner feed.

3. Click the radio button next to the button you want to display on your site.

4. From the drop-down select "Blogger", then click Go! to add the chicklet as a widget.

5. Blogger will open in a new window. Follow the prompts there to continue to add the new widget.

About FeedBurner

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.

FeedBurner also offers the largest feed and blog advertising network that brings together an unprecedented caliber of content aggregated from the world’s most recognized media companies (e.g. Wall Street Journal Online, Wired News, Ziff Davis), A-list bloggers and blog networks and individual publishers from around the world.

FeedBurner is indispensable. It's the heart-rate monitor for blogs. Each day I check in to follow my blog's pulse. Knowing who your readers are and how many readers you have is a huge motivation to grow your blog. FeedBurner is there to take the blogging journey with you. I high 5 the monitor as the subscriptions grow. If you're serious about running a blog, then get FeedBurner. Period." - Dave Rosen Futuretrack5.com 6/23/06

How do I create a Blogger Feed?

1. Enter your blog's web address in the "Ready to Burn?" form found on FeedBurner's homepage and at the bottom of the pages in the Blog and Podcast sections. If you plan to publish a podcast with your Blogger feed, check the "I am a podcaster" box. Click Next ».

The Identify Feed Source page should appear.

2. On "Welcome", make sure the title and FeedBurner address (URL) of your new feed are values you prefer.

The Create or Sign In To Your FeedBurner Account page should appear.

3. Also on this page, create a FeedBurner account by picking a username and password and supplying your email address.

When you've supplied all the required information on this page, click Activate Feed ». A "Congrats" page should appear.

4. Read all of the information on "Congrats", then click Next » to continue with the setup process.

5. If you selected "I am a podcaster" on the homepage, configuration options for our SmartCast service will appear. Here you can supply categories and other information for iTunes, append a copyright message, and submit your podcast to Yahoo! Search.

When you are finished, click Next ». Configuration options for FeedBurner stats services should appear.

6. On the stats configuration page, select the level of feed stats detail you want.

Click Next » to finish the setup process and enter our feed management interface.

You're now ready to make your FeedBurner feed available on your Blogger site!

Tracking 100% of your feed traffic

Blogger can make sure all feed traffic for your blog content goes to your FeedBurner feed. This helps make sure your FeedBurner stats are comprehensive and accurate; even subscribers to the 'Original Feed' are routed through FeedBurner. To redirect your feed:

1. In a new browser window, sign in to your Blogger account.

2. From the Blogger Dashboard, click the Settings link for the blog you want to promote.

The Settings page for your selected blog should appear.

3. Click the Site Feed link under the Settings tab.

4. Type your complete FeedBurner feed address into the Post Feed Redirect URL text field. Make sure you type in your entire feed address including the "http://" portion.

5. Click Save Settings.

You should see the message "Settings were Saved Successfully".

6. Blogger will now redirect all feed traffic for your blog to your FeedBurner feed.

Note: If you are using the redirection feature within Blogger to send all of your feed traffic to your FeedBurner feed, you may want to modify the code we provide in order to keep your subscribers with you, even if you leave FeedBurner.