Feed for your blog

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Feed

Feed is a way of getting updates on your website without having to visit it by subscribing to the feed either through an online feed reader or by subscribing to the feed via email. In practice, feed can be set to full or short. If set to short, the feed is supposed to display the first few lines, and if this attract the attention of the feed reader, then he/she will surf over to the actual site to read the full content. However, I have noticed that when I set my feed to short, in many cases, what is displayed is only the post title. So for it to be meaningful, you will have to use a very descriptive post title.

But here is a bit of good news. Google has bought over Feedburner and have given bloggers the option "burning" their feed at Feedburner and then redirect your Blogger feed to Feedburner feed. The methods and the advantages will be explained in the section below. However, for this, you must set your feed to full, otherwise, you cannot use this feature.

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Feedburner

To "burn" a feed for your blog, go to
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home
Type or copy-paste your blog URL into the field provided,



If you do podcast, tick the "I am a podcaster" box, otherwise just click "Next".

Feedburner will identify the feed URL's for your blog. For blogger, there will be an Atom feed and a RSS feed. I would suggest the more popular RSS feed. I would also suggest you copy the feed URL's into a Notepad file and save it into your computer so you can retrive them when you need them.
Tick this and click "Next".

If you are trying to keep track of what is going on in many sites and have no time to keep visiting them to see what is new, this is a great way to keep updated. You can read the feed online with sites like
www.google.com/reader (Google Reader)
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You can also chose to subscribe to feed by email.

Previously, Blogger only offer Atom feed. Many have been hankering for the more popular RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed, and in New Blogger, they have added RSS feed. You probably have come across the familiar icon or the less common button. Other common feed subscription button includes the "Add to Google Reader button , "Add to My Yahoo" button , "Add to Bloglines" button , "Add to Newsgator" button , and a whole lot more.

Adding a feed subscription button to your blog

I will first deal with the popular Feedburner subscription button. You will first have to go to "burn" a feed for your blog. Go to
http://www.feedburner.com/
and type in paste your blog URL. Click "Next" and Feedburner will look for available feed for your blog. For Blogger, there will be Atom and RSS. I normally chose RSS.

Blogger and Feedburner

Recently, Google have bought over the popular Feedburner and now you can integrate your Blogger feed with Feedburner. The advantage of doing this is that you can get statistics about your blog subscribers via Feedburner.

Putting links for visitors to subscribe to your blog

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Adding a feed email subscription form to your blog

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Blogger previously only offer Atom feed

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