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Everyone who owns a blog or publishes content to a blog or a website provide their users some kind of an RSS option. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication used to publish frequenty updated digital content such as blogs or news feeds.

Users of RSS content use software programs called “feed readers” or “feed aggregators”. The user subscribes to a feed by entering a link of the feed into the reader program. The reader can then check the user’s subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user.

FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. If you long for creative ways to attract an audience, see where your content goes once you publish it and generally add a lot more value to your feed, then “feedburning” is for you.

Luckily for us, we have a Feedburner plugin to help us in our RSS feed aggregation.

Plugin Name: FeedBurner Plugin

Plugin Author: Steve Smith

Download the FeedBurner Plugin

http://www.feedburner.com/fb/products/feedburner_feedsmith_plugin_2.2.zip

Using some WordPress plugin magic, and user-agent detection, this plugin simply forwards all your feed traffic to FeedBurner. The plugin will detect all ways to access your feed (e.g. http://www.techcounter.com/feed/ or http://www.techcounter.com/comments/feed, etc.), and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. It will forward for your main posts feed, and optionally your main comments feed as well.

How to Install the WordPress FeedBurner Plugin

Step # 1:  Download the plugin from the link given above. Extract the zip file.

Step # 2: FTP into your account, then copy the FeedBurner_FeedSmith_Plugin.php into your WordPress Plugin Directory ( yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/)

Step # 3: Activate the plugin after logging into your WordPress Admin area. Go to Plugins, then scroll down until you see FeedBurner FeedSmith. Click on Activate

Step # 4: In the WordPress Admin area, go to Options, then select FeedBurner FeedSmith option.

Simply fill in their URLs with your FeebBurner feeds in the boxes provided and click Save.

Now, all of your WordPress feed traffic should be redirected to FeedBurner.

Article Series - Consolidate your RSS Feeds using FeedBurner

1. Consolidate your RSS feeds using FeedBurner
2. How to Create a FeedBurner Feed for your Blog
3. FeedBurner Plugin for your WordPress Blog
4. How to Promote your FeedBurner Feed on your WordPress Blog

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