Twitter: Feedburner Has Gone Social
I’m awfully sorry that this blog hasn’t been updated as it should have been this week. I hate when that happens, but my desktop started crapping out on Wednesday and just continued to get worse. If you want to read all about it I added THAT story to my Overcome Everything Blog, which is new. I’ll be writing more about my life as an OE employee and stuff, so if you’d like so see how crazy things REALLY can get online… you’ll want to subscribe to that feed, too.
Anyway, I was over at Feedburner checking this out and I found something new and cool. You can now have Feedburner send your posts to Twitter, just by filling in your Twitter username and password.
I’m hoping it’s more reliable than Twitter Tools, which was hit or miss. Then, I added my feed to my Yahoo Pipe, which I have posting to Twitter every day, and that worked OK, but it wasn’t instant. I’m hoping that Feedburner will be. We’ll see how it works with this post and if I get more subscribers because of it. That would be sweet!
To activate this option, you click on your blog name and then “Publicize,” the “Socialize” Option is just below “Feed Count” and above “Chicklet Chooser.”
And then, I was surfing around, which I haven’t done in ages, and found that I had a setting checked to keep the search bots from indexing my feed. Hmm… Wonder how that happened?
It’s a good idea to check settings anywhere that it’s important. Sometimes, when you’re new, you choose the wrong things and then you’re stuck with it until you figure out that it was a dummy move in the first place. I’ve been at this exactly 6 years and 3 months now. Imagine all the stuff that I’ve learned and unlearned and relearned and you know…
Every day, I just keep learning. Hope you are, too.
One thing to learn is to use FeedBurner. It will help you to see what people are doing with your feed, how many subscribers you have and much, much more. If you want the whole rundown, you can check out this post from last August that explains Feedburner in greater detail.
