Feed Others ... With FeedBurner

One thing you want to provide your avid readers is easy ways to read you -- fast and eaily!

[I've written about feeds before in my "How to Read a Blog."]

To get more people to read your blog and return, you need to lower the bar for what it takes for them to keep up with you -- this is where site feeds come in.

Feeding your readers can be easily done with FeedBurner, a great free site for everything "feeds." It's very popular with bloggers. I use them on this blog, see how.

FeedBurner has a whole host of services for bloggers -- taking a lot of the sweat and time out of feed your site guests.

Here are a few FeedBurner services I love and think can be useful to blogging pastors:

• PingShot -- This sends a "ping" to blog directories and key search engines. It tells them you've got new stuff to check out. They in turn tell others.
• Email Subscriptions -- Like FeedBlitz, this service lets your readers sign up for email updates when you post them. It's automatic and requires little action after you set it up.
• BuzzBoost -- Lets you list the headlines of your posts on another site, like your church site or member's personal sites. [See example below of how this looks.]
• Headline Animator -- A similar service to BuzzBoost, only this provides an animated graphic. [See example below of how this looks.]
• SmartCast™ -- Podcasting made easy
• Link and Photos Splicers -- Combine your del.icio.us bookmarks and Flickr photos into your feed

Here's what BuzzBoost looks like for my ChurchCommunicationsPro.com site:



Here's what the Headline Animator looks like:



LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS:
Here are two tutorial links on using FeedBurner -- here, here.