ADD FEEDBURNER ACCOUNT TO YOUR BLOG

 

                                     

 

 

 

 

 

 

KNOW ABOUT FEEDS-PART 1

ADD FEEDBURNER ACCOUNT TO YOUR BLOG

What is Atom/RSS?

  Atom and RSS ( Really Simple Syndication) which  help the readers to get automatic updated posts of blogs or websites. These updating are also called Feeds. Feeds help to distribute their content well beyond just visitors using browsers. Feeds permit subscription to regular updates, delivered automatically via a web portal, news reader, or in some cases good old email. Feeds also make it possible for site content to be packaged into "widgets," "gadgets," mobile devices, and other bite-sized technologies that make it possible to display blogs, podcasts, and major news/sports/weather/whatever headlines etc.

Our Atom: http://businessvartha.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Our RSS: http://businessvartha.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

The major disadvantage is that Atom feed or RSS feed is difficult to read as it is syndicated with plain HTML. In such cases, we had to use a Feed reader like Google Reader or Bloglines.

How to create a Blogger Feed using FEEDBURNER?

With raw Atom and RSS, a blogger cannot optimize the feed. So we use “FeedBurner” as our platform to change the feed and make the most out of that. Simply follow the below given steps and create a Feedburner account and syndicate your feed

1. Go to www.feedburner.com, login with your Google ID and password.
2. Enter your blog's web address( URL) in the "Burn a feed right this instant?" form found on FeedBurner homepage after your login.If you like to publish a podcast with your Blogger feed, check the "I am a podcaster" box. Click Next».
3. Then the Original feeds of your blog will be identified and provided to select. Usually two original feeds are given. You may select any one of these, and click “Next»”
4. Next page, you can see a welcome, where the “Feed Title”  and “Feed Address”  are given. You may change both according to your ways. Please note down the feed address as hereafter this will be your main Feed address. Click on Next»
5. Your feed address will look like this

          http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOUR FEEDNAME

Up to here, you have completed the necessary step to configure your Feed. In  next steps, you may customize the applied FeedBurner services to Provide a more detailed podcast listing at iTunes&Yahoo! search and  additional free FeedBurner Stats options for a more richly detailed view of your feed readership. After configuration simply click Next», till you get a message “You have successfully updated the feed”. Here, you may logout and redirect your feed as described as follows.

You may Analyze, Optimize, Publicize, and Monetize your blog feed.Simply follow the links

• Click here PART 1 - ADD FEEDBURNER ACCOUNT TO YOUR BLOG
• Click here PART 2 - PUBLICIZE BLOG FEED USING FEED BURNER
• Click here PART 3 - OPTIMIZE BLOG FEED USING FEED BURNER
• Click here PART 4 - MONETIZE BLOG FEED USING FEED BURNER
• Click here PART 5 – ANALYZE BLOG FEED USING FEED BURNER

Redirect your Blogger feed to your FeedBurner feed

Traditionally blogs have two Original feeds like Atom and RSS. After you create a Feedburner account, blogger can make sure all feed traffic for your blog content goes to your FeedBurner feed. This will help FeedBurner to collect exact statistics and subscribers to the 'Original Feed' are routed through FeedBurner. To redirect your feed:

1. Sign in to your Blogger account.

2. From the Blogger Dashboard, click the Settings link for the blog you want to promote.

   The Settings page for your selected blog should appear.

3. Click the Site Feed link under the Settings tab.

4. Type your complete FeedBurner feed address into the Post Feed Redirect URL text field.Type in your entire feed address like this           http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOUR FEEDNAME 

5. Click Save Settings.

Once "Settings were Saved Successfully" then onwards,blogger will redirect all feed traffic for your blog to your FeedBurner feed.

Happy Feeding…….

ADD ADSENSE INSIDE BLOG POSTS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have options in our Dashboard to keep Adsense  ad unit either in side bar, below or above posts. But we have observed that placing Adsense unit in the post itself will help you to get much topic related advertisements because of the richness of post wise keywords. But placing an Adsense unit in posts, require some editing in your HTML. Here in this post we will explain you how to place an Adsense Adunit in your posts. Simply follow these steps and if you feel any trouble please feel free to ask us.

GET YOUR AD CODE FROM  ADSENSE

Login to your Adsense account, design a new ad unit ( preferably a Text and Link based unit), add channels and select color that matches your posts background. A classic example of preparing Ad unit that matches the layout can be seen here. Click here. Now copy the code of your ad unit.

PARSE YOUR ADSENSE AD CODE

The Adsense unit code which you are obtaining from your Adsense account is in the form of HTML, which need to be parsed before inserting into your blog’s HTML. Parsing is nothing but checks for correct syntax and builds a data structure. There is no harm in parsing an Adsense code before installing.

Visit this CODE CONVERTER TOOL to parse your HTML.You may paste the copied code from your Adsense account into CODE CONVERTER box given there and click on Convert.

Now copy the Parsed Adsense code from that box and keep it for using in the next step.

PASTING PARSED ADSENSE CODE IN HTML OF YOUR BLOG

Log in to your Blogger Account, “DASHBOARD’. Then click on “LAYOUT” and then go to “EDIT HTML”. ( kindly “Download full template” of your current HTML into your computer, as you can bring back your previous HTML incase you make any mistake while editing your HTML).

Now check in the box “ Expand Widget Templates”. Then search and find any of these three codes inside your HTML.

 <div class='post-header-line-1'/>

OR

 <div class='post-header’/>

Once you find any one of these code, then paste the “Parsed Adsense code just below that. Before Save Template, just click on “ Preview”. If your installation is correct, then your blog will appear correctly in the preview and you can see Adsense unit there inside your posts. If your editing have any mistake, then it will show in red colors above the HTML box.

CHANGING ALIGNMENT OF ADSENSE UNIT IN THE POSTS

If you wish to change the alignment of Adsense unit inside post, then please include this code also as the first line in your ‘Parsed Adsense Code” 

<div style=display:block;float:right;margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;>

Here you can change the alignment as right, left or center by changing the word ‘right’ in the above given code.

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