How to setup a Feedburner account
In our previous post, we talked about basics of RSS. In this post, we are going to learn how to set up a Feedburner feed.
Feedburner is an excellent web feed tool that provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers. Feedburner is one of Google’s applications, so you need a Google account to access it.
Setting up a Feedburner RSS Feed
1.) Log in to your Google Account.
2.) Go to feedburner.google.com to go to the page shown in the first figure.
3.) Copy and paste the RSS feed address of your blog to the RSS feed box as shown in the red box above (click image to enlarge) and then click the Next button. This will take you to the window shown in the figure below.
4.) Your feed address should look like http://feeds.feedburner.com/PolymathCentral. You can change the text in the Feed Address box if you want. Click the Next button to display the page shown in third figure.
5.) The link on the red box will contain the address of your of Feedburner feed. Click the Next button to go to the page shown below. This page enables you to monitor your statistics.
6.) Click the Clickthroughs and I want more! check box to monitor your statistics better, and then click the Next button to finish.
The next window contains links to tutorials on installing Feedburner to different blogging platforms. In the next post, we are going to discuss how to publish a chicklet to display Feedburner feed and and how to offer blog updates via email.
