FeedBurner Publisher Tips

Publisher Tips are authored by the FeedBurner Publisher Services team:

• Rick Klau
  VP Publisher Services
• Jake Parrillo
  Publisher Services Associate

Publicize? No, pubvertise!

by Rick • Filed under Publicize • August 01, 2007

Publishers looking to grow their subscriber base have a new, powerful tool in their arsenal: our newest enhancement to the Headline Animator now lets you turn your feed into a rich, dynamic ad unit that you can traffic across the... Continued — read more »

FeedBurner Acquired by Google

by Rick • Filed under Publicize • June 01, 2007

We’re very excited to announce that FeedBurner has been acquired by Google. The following FAQ includes additional information about the acquisition.... Continued — read more »

Do subscriber dips affect ad revenue?

by Rick • Filed under Monetize • May 15, 2007

As we’ve documented in the past, the subscriber number that we calculate is in part dependent on the reporting of web-based services like My Yahoo!, Google Reader and Newsgator Online. Each time those services request a feed, they include information... Continued — read more »

Resync Your Way to a Healthy Feed

by Rick • Filed under Troubleshootize • May 10, 2007

Have you ever needed to tweak something in your feed to get it working again but then didn’t want to wait for us to pick up those changes? Or have you ever changed a link to a media file in... Continued — read more »

Customize Your E-mail

by Rick • Filed under Publicize • April 25, 2007

If you are one of the many publishers using our E-mail Subscriptions product this tip is for you. We recently (actually, a few months ago now) released a lot of new features in the e-mail product that allow you to... Continued — read more »

Spread Your Headline Animators Far and Wide

by Jake • Filed under Publicize • April 19, 2007

If you were like me, you were fascinated with the first few iterations of FeedBurner’s Headline Animator and you placed them everywhere: your blog, your email signature, your Space on MySpace, etc. With the latest version of the handy animated... Continued — read more »

Twitterize Your Feed and Site

by Rick • Filed under Optimize • March 27, 2007

Thanks to the guys that created TwitThis, a service that allows Twitter users to quickly Twitter links to their friends, I was easily able to create a FeedFlare that links up with TwitThis to provide an easy way for readers... Continued — read more »

Promote Your Content Via Sharing

by Rick • Filed under Publicize • March 16, 2007

A wise man once said, “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Basically this means that sharing is good and you want to be good, don’t you? Why of course... Continued — read more »

Index Control in Under 10 Seconds

by Rick • Filed under Publicize • February 26, 2007

Want to stop search bots from indexing your feed? Well, we’ve got you covered. Just head into your publicize tab and you’ll see that the last button in the left hand navigation reads “NoIndex.” Click on the button and you’ll... Continued — read more »

Quick Hit: Feed Terminology

by Rick • Filed under Analyze • February 20, 2007

Below are terms that we use periodically to describe various behaviors observed with feed consumption: 30 Day Active Users: Yahoo’s method for calculating the subscriber number they report to FeedBurner and other feed publishers. Individuals who have subscribed to a... Continued — read more »

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