Feedburner For Email Subscription

Owner: Google (purchased on June 3, 2007)

Website: feedburner.google.com

Launched: February 2004; 14 years prior

Current status: Active

what is Feedburner?

FeedBurner is a web feed administration supplier propelled in 2004.[1] FeedBurner was established by Dick Costolo, Eric Lunt, Steve Olechowski, and Matt Shobe. Costolo is a University of Michigan graduate and was CEO of Twitter from 2010 to 2015. FeedBurner gives custom RSS channels and administration devices to bloggers, podcasters, and other online substance distributers. Feedburner is a free web service that enhances bloggers and podcasters’ ability to manage their RSS feeds and track usage of their subscribers. Subscriber overview inside a Feedburner account.

What is RSS?

The easiest way to receive the latest posts from your favorite blogs is to subscribe to RSS using feed readers such as Google Reader, Bloglines.

RSS (means Really Simple Syndication) retrieves the latest content from the sites you are interested in and pulls them into your feed reader where you can read them all in one location rather than visiting each site separately.

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.

Setting Up Your Feedburner Feed

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

Selecting your Feedburner Stats options

Adding Your Feedburner Feed To Your Blog

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

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

Copying the HTML code for your Feedburner Feed

2. Go to Appearance > Widgets in your blog dashboard
3. Click on the desired Sidebar to expand (so you can add the widgets) Please note: In new blogs, sidebars in your dashboard are empty and adding widgets automatically removes the default Edublogs widgets
4. Add a text widget to the desired sidebar by dragging it from the Available Widgets into the Sidebar area on the right
5. The widget will automatically open — just add the HTML code from FeedBurner, click Save and then Close.

Adding Feedburner HTML to the text widget

Adding a FeedBurner Email Subscription

It’s important to add an email subscription option to your blog sidebar as some readers prefer to receive latest posts from blogs using email subscription.

1. Click on the Publicize Tab > Email Subscription in your Feedburner account and click on Activate.

Activating FeedBurner Email subscription

2. Copy the HTML code.

Copy Feedburner email HTML code

3. Go to Appearance > Widgets in your blog dashboard
4. Click on the desired Sidebar to expand (so you can add the widgets)
5. Add a text widget to the desired sidebar by dragging it from the Available Widgets into the Sidebar area on the right.
6. The widget will automatically open — just add the HTML code for Feedburner email subscription, click Save and then Close.
7. Now readers simply enter their email address and then click on “Subscribe” and Feedburner emails your entire post to them on the day after it has been published on your blog.

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.

If you’re an Edublogs supporter you can redirect your blog feed  as follows:

1. Go to Settings Feedburner in your blog dashboard
2. Add your Feedburner address and click Save Changes.

Redirecting feed to FeedBurner

3. Now all your feeds are automatically redirected through FeedBurner and you’ll be able to track subscriber numbers accurately.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Aiswarya Thampi