Steve Pohlit’s latest ‘Blogging For Profits’ article titled “Use FeedBurner To Boost Blog Popularity” is reprinted here. [Blogging For Profits Article]


Steve Pohlit’s latest ‘Blogging For Profits’ article titled “Use FeedBurner To Boost Blog Popularity” is reprinted here.

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Blogging For Profits
Use FeedBurner To Boost Blog Popularity

Feedburner ( www.feedburner.com ) is a great tool for optimizing and publicizing your blog. FeedBurner is free. The first step is simply to register for an account. The second step can be taken when you have an active blog.

Once you have a blog and FeedBurner account then you can activate Feedburner for your blog. You will activate FeedBurner by simply using the box on the front page of FeedBurner that is available after you log into your account and enter the URL of your blog.

This next sentence could save you allot of time and aggravation. Sometimes just entering the URL of your blog does not always result in FeedBurner recognizing your blog. To help with this issue simply enter in /feed after your URL and that should solve the problem. For example this blog has the URL http://www.stevereports.com When “burning my feed” with FeedBurner I enter http://www.stevereports.com/feed/

When FeedBurner recognizes your blog you are ready to take advantage of a number of their services. Each feature offered by FeedBurner must be activated before it will work. For now here are the first two features I recommend you activate as soon as you activate your account and you have a blog in place:

1. Click on The Publicize tab and activate “Pingshot”. This will notify a number of services every time you have an update to your blog. I know you are already including active links in you blog posts so when you add a new post to your blog, Pingshot reminds a number of RSS readers to pick up that new content.

2. Under the same tab select Chicklet Chooser and there you will find a selection of icons that can be used for visitors to click on so they can add your blog to their RSS Feed Reader. If you look close to the top right hand side of this blog’s main page you will see my orange icon. This is the icon I picked from FeedBurner. Once selected, FeedBurner gives you the html code to use on your blog. Simply copy this code then go to your blog admin area and click on presentation. Then choose template editor select sidebar and paste the code into the side bar where you want the icon. Note about the only mistake you can make here is entering the code in the wrong place. If that happens, go back and cut and paste the code into a different location. Remember to click save after making any edits to your sidebar and you are done – for now.

More features by FeedBurner will be discussed in a later issue. Now take a few minutes and register your blog with FeedBurner and get started.

Be well and prosper,

Steve Pohlit

Steve Pohlit, Business Consultant

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Steve Pohlit has more than 20 years experience running very large and medium sized companies. Steve now consults personally with clients to design and implement processes that will deliver improved business performance for the long term. Most projects are self-funding within 90 days. The client then experiences a very high return on investment. Learn more about the process of How To Increase Profits by 30% or More In 90 Days or Less by visiting Stevepohlit.com or you can call 727-587-7871 and speak with Steve directly. Have a question? Click Here To Visit Ask The Consultant

PS. I am not a programmer or technical person. If anyone knows of easier faster, better ways than what I have outlined about please post your comments.

* IMNewswatch would like to thank Steve Pohlit for granting permission to reprint this latest article.

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