Setting Up Feedburner Email Subscription and RSS feed on your Blog

               Email subscription is a convenient way to get returning visitors for your blog, If you are really want to publicize your blog Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus are the best platform to share your post to reach millions of people but having an Email subscription option on a blog can add some more spice to your blog. Feedburner is a Google free web service which uses Feedburner RSS service to offers bloggers publisher to feed their content directly in the mailbox to their reader via Email subscription. Here is a simple yet powerful guide to enable follow by email subscription option on a blog via Feedburner email subscription.

What is RSS?

The easiest way to receive latest posts from your favorite blogs is to subscribe to RSS using feed readers such as Google Reader, Bloglines, NetVibes, yahoo feeds, kindle.
RSS (means Really Simple Syndication) retrieves the latest content from the sites you are interested and pulls them into your feed reader where you can read them all in one location rather than visiting each site separately.
The presence of the orange RSS icon indicates a site has an RSS feed and means you can subscribe to it using a feed reader.

What is FeedBurner?

Most blogs have RSS feed which is detected automatically by commonly used feed readers when the blog URL is added to the reader.
However, if you want to make it more obvious and easier for readers to subscribe using RSS, or want to know exactly how many people subscribe to your blog  then the best option is to add a Feedburner RSS feed and email subscription to your blog.

Setting Up Your Feedburner Feed

1.  Go to Feedburner and sign in to Feedburner with your Google Account (create a Google Account first if you don’t have one!).
2.  Add your Blog URL to the Burn a Feed Right This Instant and click Next.

3.  Set your feed source in the Identify Feed Source, set which feeds source you want to use.

4.  On “Welcome” page, make sure you are ready to go with the title and FeedBurner address (URI) of your new feed and then click Next.

5.  On the congrats page click next.

6.  On the stats configuration page select, Clickthroughs and I want more! and then click Next.

Adding Your Feedburner RSS Feed To Your Blog

This is used to add the RSS icon and easy subscribe options to your blog sidebar using a widget as explained below:

1.  Click on the Publicize Tab > Chicklet Chooser in your Feedburner account and copy the HTML code.


Now go sign into your blogger account and go to layout. And select add a gadget to your desired sidebar and from gadget list select HTML or javascript and paste the copied text.

The widget will automatically open — just add the HTML code from FeedBurner, click Save and then Close.

Adding a FeedBurner Email Subscription

Adding an email subscription option is important to your blog sidebar as some readers prefer to receive latest posts from blogs using email subscription.
1.  Click on the Publicize Tab > Email Subscription in your Feedburner account and click on Activate

2.  Now copy the HTML code.

3.  Go to blog dashboard then layout and select add a gadget on your desired sidebar.
4.  Add the HTML/JavaScript widget to the desired sidebar by dragging it from the Available Widgets.
5.  The widget will automatically open — just paste the HTML code for Feedburner email subscription, click Save and then Close.
6.  Now readers simply enter their email address and then click on “Subscribe” and Feedburner emails your entire post to them on the day after it has been published on your blog.

Redirecting All Your Blog Feed To Feedburner

If you want to redirect all your blog feed to Feedburner to get accurate subscriber numbers because some of your readers subscribe using your original blog feed.
                   Go to Settings >Other>Post feed URL redirect and click on add to add your full feed address. After adding URL click save settings from the upper right corner.

Now your blog is ready for an email subscription option. If you have anything doubt comment bellow. Like post consider to subscribe us.