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How To use FeedBurner with WordPress


This guide will show you how to FULLY setup FeedBurner with your WordPress Blog and show you what options you need to configure to get more FeedBurner subscribers and drive more traffic to your Blog.

Sign up to FeedBurner using your Google Account.

Click Next

This section is important, the name you give your feed address will be your FeedBurner URL, A good name for your feed title / address might be the name of your blog or website. (see TechSpotting’s FeedBurner).

Click Next

Click Next

Tick the boxes I have and Click Next

 

<h4>Optimize your FeedBurner options to improve compatibility</h3>
You will now be presented with the main menu for FeedBurner, lets get on with tweaking FeedBurner… Go ahead and Click on Optimize.

FeedFlare – Add Social Network links

Add some social networking links to your FeedBurner, tick the boxes on the social networks you want to appear in your feed.

We are now done in this section!

Add Email Subscriptions to your blog

Click on Publicize at the top of the page then click on Email Subscriptions.

Click Enable, you will now be presented with the following:

Copy the code from the box in FeedBurner, login to your WordPress admin area and click on Appearance > Widgets then drag a new text widget into your sidebar and paste in the code… Like this:

You will now see an email subscribe box in your site bar (look in the top right of this site for an example and subscribe while your here!)

PingShot – Notify Search Engines when you post

Notify search engines like Google when you post on your blog.

Click PingShot on the left then click Enable

Post from FeedBurner to Twitter Automatically!

This is probably the best way of posting new articles from your blog to twitter automatically.

Click on Socialize and add your Twitter account, then select your preferred settings!

Feedburner to Twitter

Enable Adsense adverts in FeedBurner

To do this login to your Adsense account and click on feeds, add the feeds you want ads to appear in, you can also select how often & where you want the adsense ads to appear in your feed.

Redirect your WordPress RSS / Atom feed to your FeedBurner account

One last thing left redirect your WordPress feed to FeedBurner

That’s it your done! Don’t forget to subscribe to TechSpotting on FeedBurner & Follow us on Twitter

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