Burn Your Feed Using Feedburner
For my last post, I explained the importance of creating an RSS feed for your site. This step is hugely important. In order to keep track of the people that are subscribing to your feed, you will need to ‘burn’ your feed.
Feedburner.com is a site that helps you to keep track of all the people that have subscribed to your site. ‘Burning’ your feed simply means you allow Feedburner to keep track of your subscriptions for you. When a person subscribes to your feed, they will first be taken to the Feedburner site, where they will be able to choose which reader they want to use.
Feedburner is 100% free to use and allows you to keep track of your feed count, which is the number of readers that are subscribed to your feed. This helps you to get links, because it can help you to get more subscriptions. Once you have a few hundred subscribers to your RSS feed, others will jump on the bandwagon.