Why feedburner integration is a must for your blog

When opening a blog, of the various musts, the foremost is integrating all your blog feeds with feedburner.

I don’t know what feed is.. – hop in here and come back and read the rest.

Because losing count of your readers even at the start could be a big miss. If you yourself don’t know how many, from which part of the world are reading your blog... that could be game changing and for sure not to your advantage.

Feedburner is the best RSS management service. It is similar to what Google Analytics is to a blog but only to manage information of RSS Subscribers of your blog and not the blog visitor information like that of Analytics.

Make it a mandate for to provide only the feedburner feed link in all occasions when asked for your feed address and not the default feed link, which comes as soon as you open a blog.

Keeping a count of how many readers you have is a very important count like any other important statistics of your blog.

It helps you popularize your blog, it gives authenticity and lets you publicize your blog. More the readers, more the value of the blog. It is as vital as visitor count.

Many bloggers miss on the fact that statistics helps to make your blog better (Truth, even if you hate numbers). Integration of Feedburner and Google Analytics as soon as you open a blog is a must.

Some of the features which are provided absolutely free by Feedburner and which are a boon to a publisher(blogger):

1. Complete statistics of your RSS subscribers for you to analyse and optimize your blog and blog posts.

2. Customization of your feeds like modifying post headings, branding etc.,

3. Integration of Google Adsense to monetize from your feeds.

4. Option of subscribing via mails made simple. Helps reach many more readers who opt mails for feed-readers(Google Reader, Netvibes).

5. Provides option of pinging your posts immediately after you publish to various feed-reading services.

6. Free publicizing tools like headline animator, feed counts to popularize your blog.

These high quality features from Google, for free are a must have ones.

If you fail to integrate feedburner at the start of your blog, who knows, there could be +50 or +500 more actual subscribers for your blog now. The sad part would be that even you wouldn’t know it. Don’t make the mistake.

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Have you integrated feedburner or are you going to? Any interesting finds, lessons you learnt from the feedburner statistics? How do you find feedburner? Share your thoughts.
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