Continued from the first 3- I wanted them to fall in numerical order, rather than chronologically.
Blog Traffic Increaser # 4- Make your feed compatible with all feed subscription services with SmartFeed.
Maybe you have an Atom feed in a world that uses RSS more often. Perhaps the tool you’re using utilizes an older version of RSS, and you’re just getting around to turning on your feed, but don’t want to switch. If you look on the Optimize tab in FeedBurner, you’ll find a tool that will convert your feed on the fly to any version the end user’s tool is asking for.
Blog Traffic Increaser # 5- Import pictures and links with Photo Splicer and Link Splicer
Under Optimize, look for these two options to help you jazz up your feed with your suggestions from Furl, del.icio.us, Digg, Yahoo’s MyWeb 2.0 or Bloglines. The Photosplicer will also let you drop images into your feed using Flickr, BuzzNet or Webshots.
The more of a resource your feed is, the more your subscribers will want to use it. I find that reminding my feed users that they’ll get even more treats than when they visit the blog gets more of them to subscribe – which also brings them back to my blog more often.
Blog Traffic Increaser # 6 – Get your audience to help send you even more traffic with FeedFlare.
Within the Optimize section, you’ll find one of the top three innovations from FeedBurner, as far as I’m concerned. If you’ve ever been to a blog that has options that make it easy to add a post to your del.icio.us, Digg or Technorati page, then you were probably green with envy, as I was, if you didn’t have the time or the technical expertise to add those fabulous hacks to your site.
Well I’m here to tell you that you don’t need to find the days in your schedule to reverse engineer all those little tweaks, nor do you need to become a techie if you have no idea what all that HTML code does in your blog’s template.
Using FeedFlare, you can now do all of these things yourself for your feed without touching a line of code.
The exciting thing about this is that you can get your visitors to help you spread the word about your blog.
Even more exciting is that with one of the last updates to FeedFlare, you can now add all types of traffic-generating links to your blog too.
Blog Traffic Increaser # 7 – Notify all RSS and Blog tracking services automatically with PingShot.
Another one of the Optimize tools will free up your time by pinging all the top blog notification sites when you update, by following your feed. If you feel that all the pings slow your blog posting time down, or your blog won’t allow you to customize what services get pinged, this is a lifesaver.
There are several dozen more ways to increase your traffic with FeedBurner, not to mention all the little tricks you can use to maximize the traffic FeedBurner can generate, analyze or optimize for you. You’ve got to hustle on over to FeedBurner to use these (mostly) free feed tools before you can enjoy their benefits, and there’s no time like the present.
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Those are some great tips, though I find that I don't really utilize quite everything FeedBurner has to offer. While some of the services are invaluable, there are some (like Amazon Associate Linking) that I don't think are worth using at all.
Iu00e2u0080u0099m currently publishing a three part series about how to use FeedBurner to its greatest. The first article is at http://silverpenpub.net/technology/burn-your-feed-... if youu00e2u0080u0099re interested.
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