How to optimize the RSS feed?

Many of our readers probably have not signed the RSS feed because they don’t know its usefulness. The FeedBurner is a site that provides many tools to help optimize and disseminate the RSS on your website or blog. We suggest the FeedBurner for being part of Google and the simplicity and intuitive use. I take this opportunity to explain how to use the RSS feed on your website or blog. Visit the FeedBurner in: http://www.feedburner.com

How to use FeedBurner?

If you want to provide the feed of the entire contents of your site or blog, start copying the site link and paste in the blank space that appears on the first page of FeedBurner. Then click Next and follow the instructions. After being registered, you will have access to a wide range of tools to track the number of people who read and visit your RSS feed daily and other interesting options. For this option, go to the link MyFeeds of FeedBurner.

By clicking on the title of the feed, you’ll see a graph with the number of readers in the last 30 days.
There is also the option to ‘See more about your subscribers’ that allows you to see the type of RSS readers that their readers use, and the traffic generated by them.

Optimizing the RSS Feed

Browser Friendly:
This service “styles” your feed, so that if a user clicks on your feed XML file in a browser, they get a nicely styled page that shows the contents of your feed instead of a disorienting page full of angle brackets. This provides a much more gentle introduction to feeds for beginners.
SmartFeed:
SmartFeed creates a subscriber-aware version of your feed that intelligently deploys the right version of your feed to the appropriate subscribers. Today, SmartFeed understands the capabilities and limitations of syndication readers/aggregators and on-the-fly transforms your source feed to function in all of the readers and aggregators we know about. If we detect a user-agent that does not support Atom feeds, and a publisher’s source feed is Atom, SmartFeed will convert the feed on the fly to RSS so that the client can still display the feed. SmartFeed will be enhanced to become even more subscriber sensitive in the coming weeks and months to maximize your feed’s reach, visibility, and even money-making potential! The exciting possibilities for subscriber-tuned versions of your feed via SmartFeed (based on parameters that you, the publisher, make available) aren’t lost on us either.
FeedFlare:
FeedFlare™ allows publishers to easily build “interactivity” into the content they create, making it simple for subscribers to tag, email or share their content with others. Publishers can include a variety of services including a live display of the number of comments to each post, the ability to email the author directly and show the number of blogs that link to their item. Publishers can choose to include FeedFlare within the feed itself as well as on their blog or site.

After optimization, you can use the FeedCount, which displays the number of readers of your feed, very simple to put on your site or blog.
This counter displays the number of readers who visit the feed regularly. This value may have daily variation depending on the regularity of its readers.

Email Subscription:
You can also activate this service, which lets you create a form for readers to subscribe to receive a daily email with new blog posts. It’s a feature very similar to a newsletter.

I hope you find these tools useful.

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