When creating a blog, one of the most important things that's on your mind and what you want to do is get new subscribers! FeedBlitz and Feedburner are two of the most popular ways to manage your subscriptions. I have used both and don't have any problem using either one. This tutorial however, is on using Feedburner.
Creating Your Feedburner Account For the First Time
- Go to www.Feedburner.com.
- In the middle of your screen "Enter your feed or Blog URL".
- This is where you will enter your blog address, such as http://heatherporto.typepad.com.
- Click Next.
- It will identify a few feed sources. I use RSS.
- Click Next.
- Enter a Title for your feed (will default to the title of your blog.This is OK).
- Create a username (not an email address, the @ symbol is rejected).
- Enter a password twice.
- Then enter your email address (again, you cannot use your email address as your username).
- Then click Activate.
- You are now on your way!
Adding Feedburner Widget(s) To Your Blog
CHICKLET CHOOSER
- Choose one of the New Standard Feed icons (like the little orange square with "subscribe in a reader").
- Scroll to the bottom and you can quickly add this to your Typepad or Blogger account with the "Use as a widget in ...dropdown box, Typepad is the default. However if you click the dropdown, you will see Blogger is there as well).
For Typepad
- If you choose Typepad and then click GO, it will bring you to your Typepad account, and an area called "Add a Sidebar Widget", where you will select which Weblog you want to add it to.
- Select the desired weblog (if you are using Advanced templates there is another way of doing this with adding the HTML -- contact me for those instructions separately).
- Give the Widget a name.
- Then click "Add Widget".
- Then, you can go to the Design tab of your weblog, and choose Order Content to determine where you want to place the newly added widget.
For Blogger
***** Now for the other widget I use ***** Hope this helps!
EMAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS
While still in Feedburner....
Let me know if you have any other problems, I'd be happy to help: heather@blogsbyheather.com











Such a helpful post. Thank you!:)
Posted by: Sara | December 14, 2011 at 05:17 AM
You're welcome!
thanks for visiting!
Posted by: Heather Wright-Porto | August 23, 2011 at 08:25 AM
Wow I thought I would be searching for this information for ever! your instruction were spot on THANK YOU. I am new to this blogging thing and don't know my way around computers that well too, I use them daily but this is different.
Posted by: Katrina | August 21, 2011 at 05:01 PM
Thank you! Great help - my widget stopped working and luckily I figured out the html to have my own icon too :)
x
Posted by: lucy | February 10, 2011 at 07:38 AM