FeedBurner for Better Blog
This online knowledge blog use Wordpress as blog engine. So, this blog already have default RSS feed page. Therefore, it needs some strong benefit for me to use third party RSS feed subscription like FeedBurner. I already read many suggestions about how we should manage our Blog RSS feed. I already know that there are many blogers suggest using FeedBurner as our RSS feed management. They say that blog RSS feed will be easier to manage if use FeedBurner. That many suggestion to use FeedBurner, surely catch my interest. I think that there must be some good things in FeedBurner so many bloggers suggest to use it as blog RSS feed management tool.
My Experience with FeedBurner
That’s why I give a try for FeedBurner. And guess what? I find that FeedBurner surely live his name. FeedBurner burn this blog RSS feed perfectly and as additional, there are a lot of useful tools that can use to improve our blog. Yeah, I already found the strong benefit from FeedBurner that I can use to improve my blog.
The benefits of FeedBurner base on my experience:
- FeedBurner is one of Google service. Therefore, we can use Google adsense to monetize our blog RSS feed easier if compare that we use another third party RSS feed service.
- Provide email subscription for free. It is really helpful for beginner that not yet earns anything from blog. FeedBurner Email subscription make us no need to pay aweber service if want to have an email subscription service for our blog anymore.
- There are many way to optimize the RSS feed by use feedflare feature of FeedBurner. We can customize it base on our needs. As example, we can make that our post comments will display in RSS feed reader which is really useful to encourage RSS feed reader to comment in our blog. We also can show the social bookmarking link in our blog so the readers can directly share our post in their social network directly trough RSS feed.
- FeedBurner statistic facility has great accuracy which is a useful tool to measure how success our blog in term of RSS feed subscriber. As you may already aware, increasing of RSS feed subscriber surely show that our blog already on right track to become success blog.
Use “FD FeedBurner Plugin” WordPress Plugin
Therefore, I permanently do automatic redirect this Blog RSS feed to FeedBurner by using “FD FeedBurner Plugin” WordPress plugin. Using “FD FeedBurner Plugin” WordPress plugin make it easy to redirect the RSS feed without disturb old feed subscriber. All of old feed subscriber will automatically redirect to FeedBurner if use this “FD FeedBurner Plugin” WordPress plugin. It is quite easy to install it. We only need do search in plugin search form of our dashboard, than follow installing instruction and we will directly have RSS feed redirect tool. After install it, we just need to input our FeedBurner RSS feed URL. You can look “FD FeedBurner Plugin” WordPress plugin in below:
You can see that I input “http://feeds.feedburner.com/letupdatedotcom” which is FeedBurner feed URL for this blog. I also choose to only redirect blog post. I choose to not redirect comment, category, tag, and search result feed. And what I like of this “FD FeedBurner Plugin” WordPress plugin is that the readers can still subscribe to http://letupdate.com/feed which is a default RSS feed page for this blog. All of RSS subscriber that subscribe to this blog default RSS feed will automatically redirect to this blog FeedBurner feed page. Yeah, you only need to use this online knowledge blog default RSS feed for RSS feed subscription.
Conclusions
As WordPress blogger, we sometime need to use third party RSS feed service instead only using default WordPress RSS feed burner. It is for optimizing purpose. We can use FeedBurner for it. I already experienced that FeedBurner have many good facility that we can use for RSS Feed Optimizing. I use “FD FeedBurner Plugin” WordPress plugin to easily redirect this blog RSS feed to FeedBurner. I already get some benefit from FeedBurner facility regarding to RSS feed optimizing but still need to learn how fully use all of many good facilities of FeedBurner.
Here the link for this online knowledge blog feed subscription if you want to subscribe 
:
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No doubt feed burner is great for feed management but for Email marketing I still believe Aweber is much better..but it again depends on the niche..
i think it depend the cost.
Feed burner is best feed management, and also almost many bloggers use it.
Yeah, it is the best free service for feed.
That’s why Google buy it haha.
Agree with Harsh that it’s only awesome for feed while aweber is great at email marketing. I see many bloggers use this service when they increase the subscriber by giving ebook or something else.
Yeah, Aweber may be greater in email marketing but feed burner still the best among free service.
I use this plugin and I really like it. It benefits me a lot. Also Feedburner is the best and free service of its kind.
The king of free service for feed service.
Yes I also a big fan of google feedburner service. We can even monetize our feed by adsense.
yeah, it seems adsense monetizing become big factor to use it.
Dana,
I just recently switched my feeds over to feedburner. I didn’t know there was a plugin though that would automatically convert my prior feed subscribers over to feedburner. Thanks for the information. I installed this plugin today.
Brad
Yeah, you should install it Brad because this plugin make you easily redirect the feed to feedburner.
Dana,
Hmmm … I installed this plugin and my subscriber count increased by 300%. Okay, so I only knew about 10 subscribers before that are using Google reader and showed up in webmaster tools. I had burned my feed with feedburner several weeks ago, but I was only seeing 1 or 2 subscribers show up on my analysis page with them.
Today I have 41 subscribers, and the number happened overnight the day after I installed this plugin so I know most were already subscribers that I had no idea existed.
Thanks for the heads up!
Brad
Yeah, this plugin help blogger preciser the subscriber count of feedburner.
Great info on Feedburner. All the services feedburner provides make it awesome for any level of blogger to use. Also the plugin redirecting people to only use your feedburner RSS is very helpful.
I don’t think Feedburner replaces Awebber’s functionality though. While Awebber does offer feed e-mails, it also offers the ability to send out other types of message too for the sake of affiliate marketing. In the long run, Awebber is wroth the money, but if you’re not looking to monetize your blog, Feedburner is all you need!
(Note that Awebber also does not replace feedburner)
Yeap, Aweber is surelly needed if you want focus to email marketing because feed burner do not give control how the email appears in readers.
I agree with dana.. Aweber is focus on email marketing while feedburner is focusing on your updating article..
There’s a bit different.
Yeap, FeedBurner is enough if we do not need to control the email (newsletter) content.
I am using Feedburner too and even placed Google adsense in my feeds. This plugin is great! I tried to click your RSS in my browser and the rss that linked to it is your feedburner url. Really clever. I will do the same. Thanks a lot!
You’re welcome Marlene. Glad this article is useful.
Google is a smart guy and all acquired products are now monetizing them
yeah, they great in acquire online company.
Most people don’t fully understand the power of Feedburner. Although it’s pretty amazing, as Blake mentioned, Aweber or other email services are still beneficial when monetizing.
Yeah, it is natural when FeedBurner is free and others cost you some money, i think.
I add some..
There’s a google adsense for feedburner.. We can get some opportunity to make money there..
yeah, google big name make it diffrent.
FeedBurner is very flexible to use & we can gain many advantages with it. Mainly its a Google product. Most of the bloggers prefer Feedburner.
Yeah, FeedBurner is the best free feed service in my opinion.
I think lots of people are using Feedburner. But most of the people that start blogging actually don’t.
yeah, you may right.