12 top services of FeedBurner

FeedBurner is a free service that allows you to track your feed traffic. It also offers many other services. Here I will discuss the top 12 services that FeedBurner offers.

1. Email Subscriptions

   Turn your feed into a newsletter with Feedblitz or Squeet under Publicize/Email Subscriptions. Give your readers another way to keep up with your blog by placing an email subscription form on your site.

2. Browser Friendly

   The Browser-Friendly service turns your RSS feed into a web page, so that when people new to RSS click on your feed, they will find out how to use it. All you do is link to the FeedBurner version of your feed, instead of your default feed address. FeedBurner will even help you with this.

   It makes it easy for your potential subscribers to preview and subscribe to your feed. This service can be found under Optimize tab.

3. SmartFeed

   This tool will convert your feed on the fly into a format (RSS or Atom) compatible with your visitor’s feed reader application. This service can be found under Optimize tab.

4. Link Splicer

   Using this service you can share links from Furl, del.icio.us, Digg, Yahoo’s MyWeb 2.0 or Bloglines with your readers. This can be useful for you because the more of a resource your feed is, the more your subscribers will want to use it. You can find this service under Optimize tab.

5. Photo Splicer

   The Photosplicer service will let you drop images into your feed using Flickr, BuzzNet or Webshots. This can also be found under Optimize tab.

6. FeedFlare

   FeedFlare gives your subscribers easy ways to email, tag, share, and act on the content you publish. FeedFlare should be placed at the bottom of each post, helping you to spread the word about your blog.

7. Creative Commons

   With Creative Commons you can set permissions that explain what others have to follow to use your feed. Making it clear about what permissions others have to follow to use your feed will encourage them to display your headlines on their site.

   With a Creative Commons license, you keep your copyright but allow people to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit and only on the conditions you specify. This service can be found under the Publicize tab.

8. PingShot

   PingShot will free up your time by automatically pinging all the top blog notification sites when you update. This is a surely a time saver. PingShot can be found under publicize tab.

9. BuzzBoost

   BuzzBoost helps you to promote your blog on another site. Very useful if you have more than one site and you want readers of one site to know about the other.

   BuzzBoost is found under the publicize tab.

10. Headline Animator

    Create an animated GIF images that cycles through your feed’s five most recent items. It’s a rotating banner for promoting your own work. It can be found under the publicize tab.

11. FeedCount

    FeedCount is another cool way to promote your feed. You can choose between dynamic or static graphic that always displays your feed’s current circulation, as calculated by FeedBurner.It can be found under the publicize tab.

12. Chicklet Chooser

    Promote your FeedBurner feed directly on your website by placing HTML that Chicklet Chooser automatically generates for you in your site templates to help users easily subscribe to your feed.It can be found under the publicize tab.

I recommend that you register with FeedBurner and activate all the above mentioned services.