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Adding FeedBurner to Your Website

Written by Neil Galloway

I kept noticing John Chow had a FeedBurner logo on his website and he was receiving ad revenue from them. So I decided to check them out.

I signed up yesterday and just did the basics that they walk you through. The account is free, so I would encourage you to try them out.

Basically, they are a webtracker and RSS feed site that handles some extra little details for you. There official line is this:

FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. Our Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web...

Web tracking involves tracking who visits your site and all the statistical information surrounding it. A must if you want to get a grasp of how traffic is coming to you site and from where.

Here is a Screenshot of My Info Page
FeedBurner Stats

If you don't know what RSS is about, I wrote an article awhile back when I added it to my site. I already had an RSS feed, but when I signed up they encourage you to not let people access it (i.e. they should go through them). Then I gave them my link to my rss feed and they created a page with all my info on it.

They also gave me the code to insert into my page to create a link to them (see the RSS Feed) link on the side that goes to my information. All-in-all there site looks pretty slick. Within two clicks I had my feed embedded in my Google homepage. You can do the same with Yahoo and such.

My goals are two fold. I'm hoping this will get my website out a bit more and make it easier to find and secondly, FeedBurner does have an ad network. If I can get myself some more ad revenue down the road with these people it will definitely help out.

FeedBurner Website

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Category: Blogging

Original Post: Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

2 Comments

don loeb Says:
2007-01-18 23:14:33
neil,

thanks for using us...glad you're happy with the services.

just wanted to point out that you need to redirect your current rss traffic to feedburner to have a complete picture of your stats. you can see how to do that don loeb Says:
2007-01-18 23:17:18
oops, think i put in the wrong link. it should be http://forums.feedburner.com/viewtopic.php?t=17

thanks.

don