What’s all this about Feedburner?
I’m writing this post because I want to keep it clear in my head as well as share this information with you. Feedburner is a way of emailing each article you write at your Blog. I may call it a blog post, but you could call it a news article about your business.
If people subscribe to your blog using Feedburner, then rather than implement an email newsletter system and think carefully about what you want to write in each broadcast, your recipients will simple receive each blog post (news article that you write).
To make this happen using WordPress I
- Created the account at feedburner.com,
- went to the Feedburner publicise option
- and requested the code for an email subscription form to put on my website
- Went to wordpress (by blogs admin area), created a Text box in the right side widget section
- Pasted the cost in the text/html box
I then personalised my FeedBurner account by setting up a CNAME record so that rather than all my feeds requiring a google address, they could use something like feeds.slisar.com.au (which is better to keep everything at your own domain).
I also downloaded a plugin called FeedBurner FeedSmith, activated it and then told it to look for my feeds from the newly created sub-domain of feeds.slisar.com.au.
Now I just need to ensure that it really does work…