Redirect Your Feed
Why is redirecting so important?
...By redirecting your feed, you can get a true picture of how many subscribers you have...
From:
Burning Questions
The Official FeedBurner Weblog
Apparently, un-beknownst to me, I've little straggler feeds out there not being properly counted. Thanks to this update, FeedBurner Integration for Blogspot Blogs, I now have it all under control. Sure enough, after following their instructions, my feed count went from 278 to 300+.
To add your feedburner address to your blog, you must first find the address and paste it in the proper area. Ready? Go...
- Log into Feedburner.
- Under 'Feed Title' click on your blog name.
- In the upper left, under your blog name, click on 'Edit Feed Details'.
- In the third box is your feed address (make sure you copy it all - inside the box and out)
- Open Blogger dashboard
- Go to Settings | Site Feed | Post Feed Redirect URL and paste the feed URL there.
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2 Comments:
Welcome back Annie.
Have you heard anything on whether or not Google was going to fix the problem that arises when you use your blog feed to make a Google site map for better indexing?
Now that I integrated my feeds it doesn't accept the feedburner url as a valid url to make a site map with.
@mrbrownthumb, thanks!
I don't know what the problem is. And this is the first I've heard of it. I did find Tips on using feeds and information on subscriber counts in Reader which talks about the feeds and sitemaps. In the post it said Remember that Feedfetcher-Google retrieves feeds only for use in Google Reader and Personalized Homepage. For the content to appear in web search results, Googlebot will have to crawl it as well. I think that may have something to do with it, but I will have to look into it more. There is a link in that post for questions. You may get an answer there.