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BurnYourFeed

Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years, 11 months ago

 

Quick Start for Blogger

Create your FeedBurner feed and promote it with Blogger.

(Still using “Old” Blogger? Show the Old Blogger steps.)

Creating Your Feed

  1. Enter your blog's web address in the "Ready to Burn?" form found on FeedBurner's home page 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 (URI) 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 home page, configuration options for our SmartCast™ service will appear. Here you

    can supply categories and other informataion 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. If you select TotalStats PRO, you will be asked for a credit card in the next step.

    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!

Promoting your FeedBurner feed on your Blogger site

You will now use FeedBurner's Publicity Tools to select a "chicklet" image to display a link to your FeedBurner feed from your blog's home page.

  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. Click the drop-down and select "Blogger" 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.

Offering Email Subscriptions To Your Blog

FeedBurner also offers our Email Subscription service, which uses your feed to send an update once each day that you make new post(s) to your blog. If you want to offer a link to subscribe to these email updates to your readers, you may do so by following a procedure very similar to the one outlined in "Promoting your FeedBurner feed on your Blogger site," above.

Verifying Blogger "Site Feed" settings for podcasting

If your feed is used for a podcast, you will need to make sure you're publishing a "full content" feed in order for FeedBurner's SmartCast service to pick up links to your audio files and generate enclosures for them. To verify your original Blogger site feed format is correct:

  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. Set Allow Blog Feed to Full if it is not set to this value already.

  5. Click Save Settings.

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

Advanced Publicity: Modifying your "Autodiscovery" settings

If you want to make your FeedBurner feed easier still for site visitors to subscribe to, you should modify the "autodiscovery" HTML tags in your Blogger site template. These tags tell many feed readers, and even newer browsers such as Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 (Beta), what feed address to subscribe to if the feed reader's user enters just the website (and not the feed) address.

There is a topic in our Support Forums (link) that explains how to modify the autodiscovery tags in Blogger.

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