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Helping Japan Bloggers - Feedburner Video (and thank you Nick and KenYN)
On February 04, 2008 in Blog Improvements, Helping Japan Bloggers
I hope you enjoyed the Tofugu interview. If you missed it here are the posts: 1, 2, 3, 4
One thing I really like to post about here on DailyJ is Helping Japan Bloggers. The last post I did on that topic was about a comment notification plugin (and I asked everyone to spread the word). Today I have a little treat for any blogging newbie (like me):
How to videos!
One of my favourite bloggers is Yaro from Entrepreneurs-journey.com so I was ecstatic to find out that he just launched a blog to help out newbies with great tutorial videos. You can find all of them at becomeablogger.com
KenYN suggested making the DailyJ RSS feed more prominent and Nick from Longcountdown.com gave this suggestion in a comment:
For feeds, I’d recommend using Feedburner. With Feedburner (owned by Google) you can access statistics about your rss subscribers such as how many there are and how have they subscribed. Also, if you move blog, you can still use the same feed. Oh, and when you change to Feedburner, you can point all your existing subscribers to the new feed! There are also some little icons they give you to put on your site to show off your reader count and encourage more people to sign up. Oh, … they also offer “subscribe by email” which is awesome!
Finally, I think it’s a great idea helping out fellow Japan bloggers. Keep it up!
SO,
I’ve set up my feedburner account and added a nice big RSS icon at the top of DailyJ. Now you can learn to do it too with this great video!
Pass it on to other J-bloggers!
Great! Glad I could help. I hope others find it useful, too.
http://www.risingsuntimes.com/
might be a good interview.
@Nick
I knew about feedburner (but not that it was bought by Google, they own everything). I didn’t know how easy it would be to setup and I was feeling a little lazy I guess. The laziness may be contagious, I’ve seen some other J-blogs without prominent RSS feeds. Hopefully I’ll make some time to mention it to them.
@Chris
Neat site! It looks a lot like Gaba Teachers Association but in a blog format (GTA should do that).
[…] their feed with Feedburner. If you’re confused, watch the introduction to FeedBurner video in this DailyJ post, and then read Ken’s article so you can implement the JapanSoc FeedFlare into your own […]
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