Google's FeedBurner service allows site administrators and bloggers on your site to associate feeds with FeedBurner feeds. The advantage of doing so are that you can track the number of subscribers to your site as well as combine your Flickr photos, del.icio.us or Ma.gnolia bookmarks, as well as other services around making it easier for people to subscribe to the RSS feed of your website.

Setting Up FeedBurner For Your Site

1. If you haven't already, setup a feed for your site at FeedBurner. The URL for the RSS feed of the front page can be retrieved by right-clicking the feed icon and copying the link. Alternatively, you can type in the URL of the feed, which is typically http://yourdomain.com/rss.xml.
2. Make a note of the name of the URL that "Feed Address" that you've chosen. You will need it when setting up your site's Feedburner settings.
3. Visit your site's modules page and enable the FeedBurner module: Administer (top menu) » Site building » Modules.
4. Setup permissions for FeedBurner under Administer » User management » Access control.
• administer FeedBurner
• view FeedFlare
5. Visit the settings for FeedBurner: Administer (top menu) » Site configuration » Feedburner.
• Redirect Header Status: this is the HTTP code the site will send to your browser and feed aggregators. Bryght recommends staying with 307, which means "temporarily redirect people from my site to feedburner.com". We recommend 'temporarily' because the URL you will give out will be your site's domain, and if you decide to stop using Feedburner, people will stay subscribed to the right RSS feed.
• Allow users to specify his/her own blog FeedBurner feed: if users have the "edit blog" permission and this setting is checked, users can specify in their account information to redirect to their own FeedBurner feed.
• Advanced Settings: Unless you need some user agents (like a browser, RSS aggregator or search engine) to visit your feed directly), there is no need to change these settings. FeedBurner itself does need to visit your feed directly, so keep these setting intact.

Setting Up FeedBurner Feed Redirection

1. Click Administer (top menu) » Site building » FeedBurner.
2. Select a feed you wish to redirect to FeedBurner by clicking "add".
3. Type in the end of the URL from feeds.feedburner.com. If you have not yet created the feed on FeedBurner's site, you will be prompted to do so.
4. Verify that the RSS feed works by visiting the RSS feed in your browser. You should get redirected to the FeedBurner feed.

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