Feedburner is just like the normal feed (feed directly from your website. eg: hostipedia.com/feed/) but the best thing about feedburner is that it gives us better tools for doing analysis and tracking our feeds. Besides, feedburner also has a lot of free services that would really help you.

Below is the step to manage your feeds using feedburner.

1. Make your feedburner account (go to Feedburner Dot Com)

2. Write down your direct feed address. Or you can also write down your home address and feedburner will display the related feeds for your site. You just need to choose the appropriate feed.

3. Then, give your feed its title and feedburner address

You need to be remind that in order for subscriber to be subscribe using feedburner, they need to use the feedburner address, not your website feed address (however, you can redirect user that user your web feed address to the feedburner address).

4. Summary burner

Default, feedburner provide full feed to the subscriber. That’s mean subscriber can view your overall post just using RSS reader without the need to go to your webpage or blog. If you don’t want this, you can provide them with just summary of your feeds.

5.  Chicklet Chooser

• In order to encourage people to subscribe feed, most webmaster put RSS icon that link to the feedburner subscribtion page.
• If you feel too lazy to make your own RSS icon, you can just use this chicklet chooser to find the suitable icon and put the code inside your web page.
• For WordPress user, you just need to copy the snippet code into a widget. So easy.

6. E-mail Subscription

Some reader still unaware of RSS or feeds. Thus, email subscription might be a good way to make them subscribe. Just put the snippet code into webpage and you will get email subscription form just like mine.

Good lucks!

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