Blogging with FeedBurner and XML File on Blogger

Blogging with FeedBurner and XML File on Blogger: "

One thing i know about both FeedBurner and Blogger; that they both were results from the external technology acquisition of Google; our internet Giant!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

FeedBurner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004. FeedBurner was founded by Dick Costolo, Eric Lunt, Steve Olechowski, and Matt Shobe. Costolo, a University of Michigan graduate, became CEO of Twitter in 2010. FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers. On June 3, 2007, FeedBurner was acquired by Google Inc. Currently Google feedburner is on NEW beta version!

Blogger is a blog publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at subdomains of blogspot.com. Up until May 1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via FTP. All such blogs had (or still have) to be moved to Google's own servers, with domains other than blogspot.com allowed via Custom URLs.

To blog with Blogger without FeedBurner is like a ship without a sail or a puppet without a string. When utilized together, one complement the other and brought about the best of both world.

For those of us who wished to make money blogging with zero cost (almost), except for a laptop, electricity and internet service; Blogger plus FeedBurner are highly recommended!

My early blogging days was centered around Gmail, Blogger and FeedBurner. In-fact, i was so fascinated with those 'wonders' we could do, distributing blog feeds with FeedBurner that i'd decided years ago to utilized the name FeedsBlogger as my personal username on webpages like Google, FaceBook, Twitter etc. Type FeedsBlogger on Google and other Search Engine if you don't believe what i've just said.

With reference to my previous post - How I Install Sitemap Onto Blogspot, another way to locate the source of our XML is via our FeedBurner:-

• From the FeedBurner homepage, go to My Feeds and choose the corresponding blog feed desired.
• Skip Analyse and click the Optimize tap; follow click of XML source

Having trouble getting it? more often than not 'The trouble: Your Original Feed is too doggone big! FeedBurner does not process feeds that are larger than 512K. Remember, your feed is an update on your content — not an archive for it — and you should use your publishing tools' controls to make sure your feed doesn't grow like kudzu possessed.'

To resolve,

1. Sign in again to your FeedBurner account.
2. Click the title of your FeedBurner feed on the My Feeds page.
3. On the feed management page that appears, click the Edit Feed Details... link just below your feed's title.
4. In the Original Feed Address field, change the address listed there from an example like the following:
   
   
   
   

   Code:

   http://myblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml OR http://myblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

   
   
   
   to the following format:
   
   
   
   

   Code:

   http://myblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=3

   
   
   
   (Note that max-results sets the number of posts you want to have appear in your FeedBurner feed. Any integer value between 1 and 500 is permitted.)

Test your feeds again on your said Blog on Blogspot by :-

• Design > Menotize > AdSense For Feeds
• On the Post length column; opt for Post longer than approx. 500 words; or less!
• Click Next
• Click again this time on the feed link it self to see the said feed on FeedBurner

Finally, go right back to your FeedBurner Homepage:-

• Click Optimize > Your Feed > XML Source and you're done; aren't you?

Note: The above illustration(s) were purely based upon the Old Interface version of the FeedBurner. As to the NEW (beta) version; frankly speaking, yet to familiarize hence thousand apologies! I need SOS help too.

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