A Brief Rundown of Feedburner Services and Why You Should Try Them
Recently, I mentioned in a comment that I left on another blog that I wasn't getting any traffic from Feedburner.com. I'm embarrassed to admit, however, that I now realize I didn't even set it up correctly.
Sure, I'm a programmer by trade, but hey, I make mistakes too ;D. So I "burned" a new feed on my Feedburner account, adding the blog you are reading. I also added a pile of "buttons" to the inner navigation column at right, to make it easier for readers to add my site to their RSS/Atom/Web Feeds readers/accounts. The primary purpose of doing that is so that you'll know when I've updated this blog, without having to come check the website.
What's more, I used one of Feedburner's features to do something I've been wanting to do for a few months now. The "BuzzBoost" feature lets you excerpt your feed and place it on another site of yours. To see an actual example of BuzzBoost in action, go visit my Chameleon Integration main site. At the top of the content section of the home page, you will see a heading that says "Recent Blog Posts". I only have one blog there (at the time of this writing), so you'll a teaser of its most recently posted entry.
Essentially, you use Feedburner to generate a little piece of javascript code that you can then insert into whatever other blog or website you want. This is an excellent idea if you have a group of related blogs that you want to excerpt. I plan to use this feature for my "WebGuru" multi-blog on my MathGurusOnline.com website. This blog will actually consist of several technical blogs that I am keeping separate for reasons I won't get into here. (I could use a blog platform, such as WordPress, that supports post categories, but I actually don't want. I'm hoping to explain my reasoning in some future post.)
I'm also using the "Headline Animator" feature to promote BlogSpinner V2.0 on ChameleonIntegration.com and on my older Blogspinner V1.0 domain. This feature generates a small banner that dynamically rotates headlines from the selected blog. I've noticed that while I still get a lot of search engine referrals (relatively speaking) for the older BlogSpinner blog, not many of those visitors come over to the new BlogSpinner blog (the version you are currently reading). I'm hoping that the Headline Animator changes that.
There are many more Feedburner services available for promoting your blog and its "web feed". I'll try to get into them in later posts. Now I'll just have to continue as before, blogging and promoting my blog(s), hoping that this effort pays off, at least in readers if not in revenue.
Links: Feedburner.
(c) Copyright: 2005-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://blogspinner.countwordula.com
Sure, I'm a programmer by trade, but hey, I make mistakes too ;D. So I "burned" a new feed on my Feedburner account, adding the blog you are reading. I also added a pile of "buttons" to the inner navigation column at right, to make it easier for readers to add my site to their RSS/Atom/Web Feeds readers/accounts. The primary purpose of doing that is so that you'll know when I've updated this blog, without having to come check the website.
What's more, I used one of Feedburner's features to do something I've been wanting to do for a few months now. The "BuzzBoost" feature lets you excerpt your feed and place it on another site of yours. To see an actual example of BuzzBoost in action, go visit my Chameleon Integration main site. At the top of the content section of the home page, you will see a heading that says "Recent Blog Posts". I only have one blog there (at the time of this writing), so you'll a teaser of its most recently posted entry.
Essentially, you use Feedburner to generate a little piece of javascript code that you can then insert into whatever other blog or website you want. This is an excellent idea if you have a group of related blogs that you want to excerpt. I plan to use this feature for my "WebGuru" multi-blog on my MathGurusOnline.com website. This blog will actually consist of several technical blogs that I am keeping separate for reasons I won't get into here. (I could use a blog platform, such as WordPress, that supports post categories, but I actually don't want. I'm hoping to explain my reasoning in some future post.)
I'm also using the "Headline Animator" feature to promote BlogSpinner V2.0 on ChameleonIntegration.com and on my older Blogspinner V1.0 domain. This feature generates a small banner that dynamically rotates headlines from the selected blog. I've noticed that while I still get a lot of search engine referrals (relatively speaking) for the older BlogSpinner blog, not many of those visitors come over to the new BlogSpinner blog (the version you are currently reading). I'm hoping that the Headline Animator changes that.
There are many more Feedburner services available for promoting your blog and its "web feed". I'll try to get into them in later posts. Now I'll just have to continue as before, blogging and promoting my blog(s), hoping that this effort pays off, at least in readers if not in revenue.
Links: Feedburner.
(c) Copyright: 2005-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://blogspinner.countwordula.com
