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.

How to Create Google Analytics Account

After some months when your blog gets more visitors and became more popular than its very necessary for you keep track of your visitors so that you know that from where your visitors are coming from and in which category they are interested in. This way you can optimize your blog and give more useful information to your visitors so that they keep visiting your blog again and again. Also you want to know that your visitors belong to which country, which language they prefer, which browser they are using or which operating system they are using each and everything has an impact on the future of your blog.

What is Google Analytics?

This is where Google Analytics comes. Again its free service by Google for bloggers and webmasters to keep track of your blog/website visitors. It has all the things you need to know about your visitors. Google Analytics seamlessly keep track of all your blog visitors and share this precious data with you without any cost. Although blogger and WordPress have their own monitoring methods as well but still lots of bloggers till prefer this method. From time to time Google changes this program and now with the latest change it gives you lot more information than ever before. From keywords to user flow, from traffic sources to content view it has each and every thing to need to know about your blog.

Unlike Alexa its reports are much more recent and updated. It gives you the power to unleash the world. You can also integrate Google Analytics with Google Webmasters accounts for more in-depth analysis. You don’t need to create Google Analytics account and verify your website if you already have already verify Google Webmasters account. Just link it with your Webmasters account and your are done. The best part i like about verifying Google Analytics Account is that you can do this in many ways and hence do this easily the way which suits you better.

Google Analytics Features.

1. Unique Visitors.
2. Time user is spending on your blog.
3. Pageviews of your blog.
4. Bounce Rate.
5. Keyword Analysis.
6. Referring sites.
7. Detail about Landing pages.
8. Country wise break down.
9. Visitor information like Browser, Operating System etc.
10. Traffic Sources.

How to Create Google Analytics Account?

1. Creating Google Analytics account is very easy. Visit this page in another Tab or Windows.[link]

2. If you have already Gmail account than sign-in with your Gmail username and password. Other wise create a Gmail account ID first by visiting Gmail.com.

3. On next page click on Sign Up button.

4. Now fill in all the details like Account Name, Website’s URL, Time zone, Sharing Settings, Your country or territory, accept the Terms and conditions and click Create account button.

5. On next page copy the code and paste it in between the <head></head> tags of your blog’s theme Header file and save the file. In some themes you have the option to paste the code in settings page which is lot more easier.

6. WordPress all in one SEO and Yoast plugins are the most used plugins and they also gives you the ability to verify your account by entering your Analytics ID into the settings page. This method is way easier but of course requires you to install the plugin first.

7. So if you don’t want to install the above mention plugins or if you are using thesis theme which has its own built-in SEO mechanism than you can also install a dedicated plugin for this verification. You can also install Google Analytics WordPress plugin and than copy code and Tracking id into it.

Setting Up your blog Profile inside Analytics

Creating Analytics account is not enough, in order to see the stats of a particular website you need to create a profile of that website in your account.
Login into your newly created account and click on the link that says Create an Account.
Just fill in the form with your blog or website details and click on continue button. There you go now it will start tracking your blog instantly and you can see the stats after 24 hours.

10 Essential WordPress Security Tips

One of the biggest drawbacks of WordPress CMS vs Blogger is its security. Thousands of WordPress blogs hack daily and hackers not only hack blogs but delete all the files and folders in it. My blog Internet Khazana was also hacked last month and hacker not only delete all files but also database as well. That’s why its so important for you to create daily backup of your blog specially database backup. Thank god i have the latest database backup but unfortunately i have not all of my blog’s image backup. That’s why i have to waste 15 days to recover and create new images for my blog. After this hack i have learned lots of things and now my blog has more secure than ever before.

1. Create Strong Passwords.

My first mistake was that my old password was containing only characters and digits. I think this was the biggest mistake in my life as these passwords are very easy to hack. Although my password was 15 characters long but still it was hacked. So what is strong password that is nearly impossible to hack. Strong password must contain at-least 15 characters(20+ recommended) and include all types of characters like Capital and small Alphabets, Digits and Special Characters. Never save password on your computer and write down on some notepad etc. Create daily backup as it will save lots of headache if in case your blog is hacked you can quickly restore your data and your blog is up and running in some hours. Try to store you backup in two places like in your computers hard-disk and USB disc etc.

2. Install Login LockDown WordPress Plugin.

Before my blog internet khazana was hacked i had noticed a suspicious IP from morocco who tries to login as Admin but was failed to login. Thanks to the Login LockDown WordPress Security plugin. What this plugin do is that it limits the login attempts of any user and you can set the options that after how many attempts it will lock the login screen. By default if you put 3 wrong passwords it will automatically disable the login screen for your IP for specific amount of time. So its a great way to stop hackers from continuously trying passwords on your blog login screen.

3. Change default Admin Username.

If you are still using Admin as your default username than your are going to provide 59% information to hackers and they only have to guess your blog’s password in order to hack your blog. Now you may be asking that your blog is now very old and how can you change the username now. Well its very easy, just install the WordPress Wp-optimize plugin and simply enter the new username in the change username box. Remember to first create a backup of your database in case if something goes wrong.

4. Change Default Database Table Prefix.

WordPress is known for its dynamic publishing system which creates posts, pages, themes dynamically and store all this precious data in Database. So the Database is the brain of your blog and its very important to protect it. Unfortunately its dynamic ability is mostly targeted by hackers. Spammers and hackers try to inject malicious code, SQL injection and Automated scripts into your blogs Database. So gurus recommend that in order to protect your database all you need is to change the default WordPress Database Table Prefix. For this you need WP Security Scan plugin which gives you the ability to default WordPress Database Table Prefix in just one click.

5. Hide your blogs WordPress Version.

Believe it or not if your blogs WordPress Version is visible to hackers than they will hack your blog in just few hours. Its so easy for them to hack your blog if they now which version your blog have because they now the bugs of that version and hence its easy for them to hack your blog. Hiding your blog WordPress version is very easy. Just add this code into the Functions.php file of your theme and Update the file.

<?php remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator'); ?>

6. Encrypt your WordPress Login Password.

By Default if you type your password in WordPress Login Screen unfortunately it can be seen or access by anybody on the internet. For this problem you have two options, First is paid option in which you can buy SSL certificate from your webhost in order to protect your WordPress login page. Other option is free one in which you have to install Chap Secure Login plugin which encrypts your password so that it cannot be seen on internet and hence protect your account.

7. Check your Blog’s Theme.

Unfortunately more than 90% of Free WordPress themes available on internet contains some sort of malicious code which can be dangerous for your blog in future. The code is mainly hidden in your theme’s script and you don’t even about it. So to solve this problem you need to install Theme Authenticity Checker plugin for WordPress. After installing this plugin it searches for malicious code in your blog theme and if found it displays the exact line with little snippet of malicious code.

8. Protect Wp-Config File.

If Database is the brain of your blog than Wp-Config File is the heart of your blog. Its the most important file you have in your blog. It contains all the important information like Admin username, Password, Database name and Server name. So to protect this file we need to edit out .htaccess file which is located in the root directory of your blog. All you need is to add the code given below and save the file.

# protect wpconfig.php
<files wp-config.php>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</files>

9. Disable Directory Browsing.

Its the biggest and most common mistake comet by newbie bloggers that they never protect there blog’s directories which have no default index file in it. By default if you type any directory name in browser you will see the all the content in it which is very useful for hackers and dangerous for you blog security. So to disable directory browsing you need to ad some code in your blog’s .htaccess file present in the root directory.

Options -Indexes

10. Change Default Admin Login URL.

Everybody knows that your blog’s login page can be accessed easily by typing Wp-Admin at the end of your blog URL. This is really a stupid thing and any thief can easily enter into your blog by this door. So we have to hide this door from thief’s by changing the Default Admin Login URL to something like this http://yoursite.com/login. Again we have to ad some code into the .htaccess file present in the root directory of your blog.

RewriteRule ^login$ http://yoursite.com/wp-login.php [NC,L]