After you write your posts, you want to make sure readers can read them in any way they choose. As a result, one thing that’s important to offer is an RSS feed, the preferred way of many bloggers to follow other blogs. While most blogs are set up to automatically produce a feed, this does not give bloggers the ability to keep track of their varying statistics. While not always focusing on stats is perfectly acceptable, feedburner offers great insights into your readers.
How to set up feedburner
1. First, go to http://feedburner.google.com to set up your feed. You will want to put in your blog or feed address right in the box:
2. Go to the next screen, which will display once your url has been verified and enter your Blog Name & the Feed Address. THIS STEP IS VERY IMPORTANT. If you change the feed address later on, you will have to notify your readers- they are not automatically updated if you change the feed address.
3. Once these steps are complete- congratulations! You have a feed.
Now what do you do with it? In Blogger, you want to go to your Dashboard and select Settings, then Site Feed. You will see a box titled Post Feed Redirect Url- put your feedburner feed ADDRESS here. For WordPress, download the Feedburner Feedsmith Plugin. It is the one recommended by Google (who owns Feedburner) and is the one that has remained most consistent with WordPress Updates.
Next, you can add your logo to your Feedburner feed to further brand your content!
How to add your logo to your Feedburner Feed.
1. Log in to your feedburner account and select the “publicize” tab. 
2. Make sure your email subscriptions option is activated, and select “email branding”.
3. Insert the url of your logo image. Note that it should be 200px x 200px or smaller.
4. Scroll down to adjust the font, colors, and then to see your preview. Click Save.
That’s it! Now your logo is in your feed updates delivered to your readers each and every day. Happy blogging!
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Twitter: CalliasCorner
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Thanks for the tip! I never quite understood the RSS Feedburner. I’ll have to give this one a go.
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I’ve had my Feedburner feed set up for ages, but didn’t know I could add my logo…cool! Thanks!
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I was thinking the same thing! Just added mine.
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Wow! I just set up Feedburner with your help! Thank you for the help!
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Thanks! I use feedburner on my other site =D
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Don’t know if I’m still set up under feedburner. Will haveto Check.
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Awesome, will do this TODAY! Thanks…
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Great advice! I wish more people would adjust the TIME they have their emails are sent out. So often I get an email when a blogger at 11pm when the post was published at 7 that morning. I feel late to the party when that happens.
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Is the a way to check and see what time feed burner is sending emails? I never changed my time; wonder what the default is?
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Yes! I just did this- go to ‘Publicize’, ‘Email Subscriptions’, and the last option: ‘Delivery Options’… mine was defaulting to 3am-5am… but I usually publish at 6am, so I bumped it up. HTH!
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The timing of the arrival of the post in your box – at least in my case – is determined by when Feedburner gets it sent. I am having a difficult time getting Feedburner to sent my posts of late until I ‘ping’ them several times. . .usually the post arrives a day AFTER I have put it on the blog. Most frustrating.
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Ashley, You are the best! So awesome that you share all of your knowledge. Maybe you have to let some of it out or your brain will explode. There IS a whole lot of it in there!!
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This is SO HELPFUL! I am going to do it right now!
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Thank you girls! I never realized that I never uploaded a logo to FB.
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Thank you! This is great!
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Great tips! Thank you, Ashley!
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thank you for this very helpful tip. You guys ROCK!
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Feedburner is a wonderful tool to use when blogging! I set mine up to tweet each time I have a blog post. It is one more way Feedburner can be useful!
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Perfect timing! I just set up my feedburner this week but wasn’t quite sure I did it right…. thanks!!
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I’ve got mine all set up. I recently discovered how to add my blog button to it, too.
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I’ve used feedburner for a while and did not know about the logo option. How cool!
Thanks for the tip.
Twitter: alexshares
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I’ve used feedburner for a while and did not know about the logo option. How cool!
Thanks for the tip.
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What I want to know is how do you get your post picture in your feed?
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Wish I could answer your question, but I don’t know. Can you answer mine – How do I get my logo to show up in the right hand corner when posting here? There’s no profile area on SITS to add an avatar.
If I make a comment on someone’s blog my logo shows up, but not here.
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It’s either from Gravatar or maybe from my profile from the SITS forum?
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Thank you! The Gravatar suggestion worked!
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I had been wondering how to do this. Thanks
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Great info!! This was SO helpful. I setup my feed a while back, but haven’t looked at it since. Thank you for this!
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This is great, thanks! I didn’t know you could add a logo!
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I’ve had a feed for FOREVER now but had no idea I could add my logo. Thanks!
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Thanks for the tip!
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rss feed is really helpful in burning my blog. this is a nice post containing the way to burn the feed. can you post some tricks and tips that how to increase rss readers for blog?
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I’m glad I read this, my logo has been outdated for too long. Now everything is updated and pink
Thanks!!!
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Wish I had stumbled on this post yesterday. I just set up my feedburner account and all seems fine except when someone subscribes, my feed is listed as wonkywonderful – home … what did I do wrong? How do I get the – Home off the end of the title. Any suggestions?? Thanks.
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So can you use both RSS and Atom feed choices on Feedburner to get maximum bang for the buck?
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this was so very helpful. I always learn something portable here. what a great resource-thank you.
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Thank you for helping my learning curve….:)
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Thanks for the help on fixing mine!! How do I change the avatar on this website to my photo?
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Thank you for this! I have been so behind in the developing my blog. This helped a GREAT DEAL. Thanks a million!!!
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Thank you in advance for this article as I am setting up my Feed. I am having trouble. When I click on the URL or my RSS button from my site, a complicated code comes up. How can I set it up so people can subscribe via Google Reader etc?
http://kitesurflikeapro.com/feed
Thank you!
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Hi, I was wondering if you could tell me how to narrow the width of my text on my feed? My feed needs a scroll bar along the bottom because it’s too wide. I would like to eliminate the scroll bar and have the text fit. Is there a way to do this? Thank you so much!
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Hello. I’ve read all the comments here, but if I’ve missed the answer to the question, forgive me. I followed all your instructions for setting up my feedburner and I tried putting in the logo and changing the font, but it doesn’t take the changes. Says something about using a server for the logo that Feedburner can access, but how do I know what servers qualify? And why can’t I get the font to change? Any help would be great. This was a really useful post!
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I am having the worst time trying to figure out how to set up feedburner. I have the button on my site. I can’t figure out how to get a nice feed that has a logo and really pretty. Can someone help me? I have read the above directions and am still stuck. I have tried to Google this topic and I have tried reading a book on it. Help!
Thanks,
Jackie M.
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Thanks for the easy steps i was really confused on how to get past the second step and this blog helped me find my way. cheers!!
thanks for the tips. It was so easy to follow. thank you very much.
I use vistaprint for my website and I have a blog….and I’m trying to understand if this applies to me. A friend wants me to update my website to WordPress but that an extra $800 to have that done. What is so special about WordPress? I spend $35 mo for my website…including my blog. Is that bad?
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Thanks, Ashley, for this. I’m trying to modify the email that delivers my posts, and I’m having a hard time doing it. I’m using Safari on a Mac.
1, I’d like to have my photo, and I tried putting in the URL to my About Me page on my blog and that didn’t work. Today, I tried putting in the URL to my About.Me profile page, and it doesn’t look like that’ll do it either.
2. I was trying to customize the link, title and body colors but the “sample” that’s supposed to show what it looks like isn’t working. Any idea what’s wrong?
Thanks again.
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. Thanks for helping. easy to follow …
have a nice day
thank u