RSS What is can do for you

Tracking your podcasts/vodcasts and blogs.  I'm sure by now many of you have either visited a blog, listened to or viewed a podcast.  But how many of you that are creating this content really know who is accessing your content?

I'm going to share with you a tip on how to create an email subscription link on your blog or for your podcast files and it's Free-- yes Free.

The first step is to register for an account with Feedburner.com -- which is now part of Google's Tools.  So if you already have a Google account you can easily access Feedburner.

If you are a blogger, you can add blog URL into Feedburner to create the RSS tags.  On Feedburner's main page look for the box that looks like this and copy and paste your blog URL into this blank field

Then hit Next and you will see that Feedburner created an RSS feed URL for you

Then hit Next again to see the full subscription string

Click on Skp directly to Feed Management and click on the Publicize Tab

Click on the email subscription option and click on the Activate Button.  You will then see some html code that you can copy and paste into your blog site or if you are using Typepad or Blogger, it will automatically publish the email subscription tool into your blog or some of you may have blogging tools that allow you to add this feature.

So now not only can you track the traffic but you know exactly who is subscribing to the blog and it does prompt the subscriber to opt in to ensure you are playing by the rules and not spamming your viewers.

You can do this with podcast files too.  This is a little more complicated because of where you may be posting your podcast files.  If you are posting them into a blog that's great just follow the steps above.  If you want advice on how to do this in some other way, give us a call to help step you through how to do this with your podcast content.
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