My traffic is starting to pick up and readers are spending more time on my blog, I guess that makes sense since I now have more content then last month. I felt it was a great time to set up my Feedburner account and start engaging my readers. Since a lot of new bloggers read my blog, I want to start with the basics of RSS and Feedburner.
What is RSS? RSS stands for really simple syndication. Basically, it allows readers to click a button to subscribe to your blog and have daily updates sent to them and whatever form they want. I use Google reader and I suspect that most people do as well. There are a couple major reasons why bloggers want to boost their RSS readership. First off, it helps transform your blog into a community and helps take you to the next level. Second, it is a great measure of how popular your blog is.
The most popular service is FeedBurner, which is a Google company. It is simple to sign up, just go to feedburner.com and type your url in the field and they will burn your feed and get your account set up. At this point, your feed will funnel through Feedburner. This will make it easy to get a feel for your subscriber base and also provide a nice metric to monitor the growth and maturation of your blog.
When you sign up, you will want to make sure you grad the code to display an image on your blog to promote your feed and encourage people to sign up. You may have noticed that other bloggers have the total amount of subscribers listed net to their icon. I strong encourage you to do this, but I would wait until your subscriber numbers are at least over 100. There are different schools of thought about this, but I will not be displaying this until I get past the 100 mark. There is a psychological element to this, people want to gravitate toward things that are popular (think Twitter and Facebook) and being popular helps create a snowball effect. It is kind of like the analogy, “It takes money to make money.” Well, I think the same is true in regards to subscribers, the more you have the easier it is to get more. In my experiences, the first 10 are the toughest. With that being said, why don’t you help my cause and subscribe to my feed. J
by the feed burner user suscribe to your blog when you some doing update blog they send the information of the user.feed burner give the update from your blog to the user.