How to Use Feedburner for SEO - How to start using Feedburner on your website

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Before you can use Feedburner, you need a Google account. 

Once you have a Google account, follow the rest of the steps below:

Step 1: Go to www.feedburner.com

Step 2: Log in using your Google account.

Step 3: Under "Burn a feed right this instant," enter your feed URL. If you are using WordPress to power your blog, it will be: http://www.yourwordpressblog.com/feed/

Step 4: Feedburner will then ask you to provide the "Feed Title" and "Feed Address." Enter the home page title as the "feed title" and in the "feed address," use your main domain name. For example:

Step 5: After clicking "Next," if Feedburner does not encounter problems and you can see the congratulations page, then you have completely set up. Click Next.

Step 6: Feedburner then ask you which stats you would like to be automatically tracked. Check two items. First, check "Clickthroughs" to know how many people click those items back to your website. This is used as a measurement of website content quality aside from number of subscribers. Next, click "I want more! Have Feedburner stats also track: ? "  This will enable you to see detailed statistics that can provide important clues about the quality of your website.

I will be writing a second tutorial that will emphasize the technical details of using Feedburner after discussing this basic setup.

Before you dive deeper into technical details, I highly recommend that you first read this Google item to learn more about Feedburner. 

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