27
Feb
06

Cooking with FeedBurner

By Joshua Steimle 4 Comments Categories: Miscellaneous

I just switched our RSS feed to FeedBurner. If you are subscribed to our feed please switch it to http://feeds.feedburner.com/donloper. For those of you who don’t know, FeedBurner allows you to track things such as how many people are signed up for your feed, what browser they’re using, when bots hit your feed, etc. Just some basic tracking stuff.


So I’ll make you a deal. Everyone switch their Don Loper feed to FeedBurner and I’ll tell you how many people are actually reading this blog on a regular basis.

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  • Bill

    Now just turn on full text feed, and you’ll be set.

  • http://www.mwi.com Joshua Steimle

    Being new to FeedBurner, can you enlighten me as to what full text feed is, why I would want to turn it on, and where to find it? I searched all over FeedBurner and couldn’t find anything about it.

  • Will

    Glad you decided to try Feedburner, i think you’ll like it. Full text feed just means that your subscribers can read the entire text of your posts in their RSS reader, rather than seeing only the first few lines and having to click through to finish reading the post. Basically it just makes it easier for your readers by eliminating a click. As far as I know, Feedburner displays the full text by default. You may have Summary Burner activated, which would cause the feed to be cut short at a certain number of characters. Check if it is activated at My Feeds > Optimize > Summary Burner. If it is, just deactivate it and see if that works.

  • Will

    Just realized something else re: full text feeds. The setting may also be found in your blog hosting software, as some give you the option of publishing full or partial posts. Since Feedburner gets the original feed from wherever your blog is hosted, Feedburner may be receiving a partial post and simply passing it along. Check those settings as well. Good luck.