Lots of people have been asking me about RSS feeds and Feedburner over the past few weeks. So I’ve decided it’s time to update my ‘how to’ Feedburner info so that: • All the required instructions are in one post • It is current for the latest version of Edublogs and Feedburner What is RSS? The easiest way to receive latest posts from your favorite blogs is to such as Google Reader, Bloglines, NetVibes. RSS (means Really Simple Syndication) retrieves the latest content from the sites you are interested and pulls them into your feed reader where you can read them all in one location rather than visiting each site separately. Watch to learn more! The presence of the orange RSS icon indicates a site has an RSS feed and means you can subscribe to it using a feed reader. What is FeedBurner? 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. Is a free web service which enhances bloggers and podcasters ability to manage their RSS feeds and track usage of their subscribers. Setting Up Your Feedburner Feed 1. Go to and sign in to Feedburner with your Google Account ( first if you don’t have one!). Add your Blog URL to the Burn a Feed Right This Instant and click Next. Leave RSS 2.0 source selected and click Next. On “Welcome” page, make sure you are happy with the title and FeedBurner address (URI) of your new feed and then click Next. ![]() ![]() On the Congrats! Page click Next 6. On the stats configuration page select Clickthroughs and I want more! How to Activate Your Feedburner Email Subscription. Sign in to your Feedburner account (you will need to have first burned your feed in order to add an email subscription option). After clicking on your feed title, you are brought to a screen that allows you several ways to customize your Feedburner feed. Click on the Publicize tab. Then follow these steps: Go to Feedburner.com and login. Click “My Feeds” in the upper-left-hand corner. Select your feed from the list. Click the “Publicize” tab. Click “Email Subscriptions” on the left. Make sure “Feedburner” is selected, and click “Activate” Copy the HTML code in the box. And then click Next. Adding Your Feedburner Feed To Your Blog This is used to add the RSS icon and easy subscribe options to your blog side bar using a text widget as explained below: 1. Click on the Publicize Tab > Chicklet Chooser in your Feedburner account and copy the HTML code. 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. The widget will automatically open — just add the HTML code from FeedBurner, click Save and then Close. 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. Click on the Publicize Tab > Email Subscription in your Feedburner account and click on Activate. Copy the HTML code. 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. The widget will automatically open — just add the HTML code for Feedburner email subscription, click Save and then Close. 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 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. Now all your feeds is automatically redirected through FeedBurner and you’ll be able to track subscriber numbers accurately. If you are enjoying reading this blog, please consider. Hello there Sue! Thanks for this post as I’ve been trying to find all this regarding feedburner. After adding FeedBurner to my website, I tried to subscribe with using another e-mail id. Everything went well. It said that I’ve successfully subscribed to the newsletter. But, we I checked my after publishing a post on my Website, I got nothing there in the inbox. Please help me because I’m not getting any update in spite of being subscribed. Any help would be appreciated! • Saif Ansari • / • Jan 25, 2016 • / •. I have feedburner activated on my Weebly Blog and I have about 20% of subscribers who have NOT activated their subscriptions. I have contacted a few of them an they said they never got an activation email?? What can be done here? Is there a way for me to activate them? I have even tried deleting their email from my subscription list, re-entering it myself – hoping they would receive an email – but no, nothing at all. (And not in spam folders either) Any help would be greatly appreciated! • Toria • / • Jul 4, 2013 • / •. Hi Toria Unfortunately if they have entered the correct email address, and the activation email hasn’t been sent to their spam folder, then it indicates that the Feedburner activation email is most likely being blocked by the email domain. Occasionally domains will block from specific domains if they detect too much spam coming from that domain. There is nothing you can do about this because it is something that Google needs to follow up with the email domains (which is highly unlikely they would do). On Edublogs we use our own email subscription solution and will contact the email domain if this happens to get our domain unblocked. Sue • • / • Jul 25, 2013 • / •. I am not sure if you could help me with this. But I am using feedburner as a newsletter option also. Via just having the feeds from a particular wordpress category, be delivered to subscribers via a rss feed. The only thing is, I have myself on the mailing list to test to see if this is working and unfortunately, I have yet to receive any posts to my email address via the rss feed. Do you have any suggestions or idea why this would be happening? I have searched all of google and it seems it’s a recurring problem but I am hoping I can figure out a solution =/ • • / • Sep 28, 2011 • / •.
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