7 Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic with FeedBurner

From FeedFlare to Pingshot, FeedBurner's Free Services Help You Increase Blog Traffic

By Tinu Abayomi-Paul, published Mar 29, 2006
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FeedBurner is a free service that allows you to track your feed traffic and all kinds of other fun stuff. It won't create a feed for you from scratch as often believed - rather it wraps itself snugly around a feed you bring in and adds its services therein. It has a few premium options for the serious feed publisher, too.

People ask me all the time if I suggest that they use FeedBurner’s plethora of free feed enhancement tools. I have always answered a resounding “Yes!” – But lately FeedBurner has moved itself to a whole new level.

Did I mention most of these tools are free, and can help increase the traffic you get to your blog, by using your feed? Don’t believe me – go to http://www.feedburner.com and see for yourself. Tell ‘em Tinu sent you.

They have no idea who I am but it’ll be fun, I promise.

So enough with the warm-up already, and let’s start talking about some of these incredible features.

Increasing Your Blog Traffic with FeedBurner

Blog Traffic Increaser # 1- Give others permission - or shake the no-no finger with the Creative Commons option, found under the Publicize tab in your FeedBurner dashboard.

It will pop in the logo if you like, and explain what permissions others have to use your feed. Being clear about what permissions others have to use your feed with encourage them to display your headlines on their site – or let them know that they must link to you to cite your views.

Blog Traffic Increaser # 2- Turn your feed into a newsletter with Feedblitz or Squeet under Publicize/Email Subscriptions.

This turns your feed into a newsletter. It even gives you a subscribe form for your site. Now you now have a(nother) ezine option to go with your blog without any extra work.

Blog Traffic Increaser # 3- Use the Browser-Friendly version, combined with FeedFlare to explain what an RSS Feed is.

Takeaways
  • FeedBurner can be made invisible using their MyBrand service.
  • Business blogging works for many reasons, not the least of which is web traffic.
  • Tracking your feed traffic helps you know what your subscribers want to read.
Did You Know?
Feedburner is a free service that any webmaster can use to help increase their traffic with an RSS feed or blog.
Resources
  • Want 14 More Ways to Get More Blog Traffic with FeedBurner? Download the PDF file at www.rescueyourblog.com – and get the other 14 Blog Traffic Increasers for Free.
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The best way to drive traffic to your blog is to perform some basic seo techniques. After writing your article, try thinking about what your article is about, and write down those possible keywords. Put those keywords into Overture to see if anyone is searching on it. Then put those keywords into Google to see how many competing pages exist. What I look for is a minimum of 100 searches with less than 1,500 competing pages. For example, I was helping one of my co-workers who is writing a blog called State of the Union. It is a blog dedicated towards the truth about the mortgage industry; the stuff that mortgage brokers and real estate agents do not want you to know. I took one of his articles and found that he should use "avoiding foreclosures" because there are 1829 searches in a month and 1800 competing pages. By finding keyphrases that are searched on quite a bit and the least amount of competing pages, you will have a better chance at being found on the Internet without havi

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