How to Burn your Blog Feed using Feedburner

You might have heard about blog Feed or RSS feed before but its time to implement it on your blog. A web feed often known as RSS/News feed is a collection of data format used for giving people with instantly updated content. Blog webmasters syndicate a web feed so that blog visitors can subscribe to there blog and remain update without needing to visit your blog. You can also collect many web feeds which is known as aggregation. You can use many aggregator services like Google Reader, Feedzilla etc. So its very essential that burn your blog feed using some kind of service in order to facilitate your visitors.


Feedburner is a free and awesome service provided by Google so that you can keep track of all of your blog subscribers. You can also use this service for Email subscription and by burning feed for your blog, your blog can be read over all major browsers without any issues. Both blogger and WordPress platforms webmasters can use Feedburner service and get extra features which default feed is not providing.

How to Burn a Feed?

1. Visit Feedburner.com official page and sign-in with your Gmail account. If you have have Gmail account id you can anytime sign-up for free on Gmail.com.

2. Now first find your blog feed URL. most commonly its your blog URL and than feed folder. So the URL may be www.yourblog.com/feed or if your blog is in some other folder like www.yourblog.com/blog than the feed URL will be www.yourblog.com/blog/feed and click next button.

3. Next page will offer you to set the Title and Address of your blog feed. Give a meaningful title which is related to the blog name and if your blog name is very big than you may short also. After filling all the details click next button.

4. You will see a confirmation message on next screen. You have now setup your blog feed via Feedburner.

How to create Email subscription box?

1. After creating your blog feed through Feedburner you have now many option including Feed subscription box which you can put on your blog so that visitors put there Email address into it and subscribe to your blog.

2. Click on Publicize tab and you will see many options including Email subscriptions, just click on that link.

3. Click on Activate button in order to activate Email subscriptions service.

4. Copy the code from the text box and paste it where you want your Email subscription box to appear.

5. You can also show a button on your blog which shows the number of blog subscribers. For this click on Feed Count link, choose button style, body color, text color and activate the service.

6. Again copy the code and paste it where you want that button to be appear.