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Posted on January 8, 2007 - Filed Under Tips | 4 Comments
Does your blogs feed validate? Check it here.
Does your Feedburner feed validate? Mine didn’t. Check that here.
I had neglected to see the value of “feeds” but recently noticed a positive trend.
Most popular bloggers have 8000 or more subscribers which is kind of impressive, it looks like time to play around in this area.
I have fixed the feed to comments and regular posts, added a “subscribe to feed” icon at the top right of this blog and in just a day or two see 46 new subscribers.
Won’t you also subscribe to SEO Buzz Box? Thank You!
January 8th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Hey Aaron,
Greetings from FeedBurner in Chicago. Thanks for utilizing our service. We have a whole suite of tools that you can use to increase the number of subscribers of your feed. Take a look at FeedFlare under your “optimize” tab at FeedBurner. I can offer you a few more tips if you’re interested. And…if there’s every anything you need from FeedBurner, feel free to give us a shout at publishers@feedburner.com.
Jake Parrillo
Publisher Services Team
FeedBurner
January 8th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Thanks Jake, will do.
January 13th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Aaron,
Thank you for the valuable information. Thankfully, my feeds (RSS and Feedburner) validated with no errors. I am an SEO (in-house), not a programmer, so validators are extremely important when I don’t have a couple of programmers in my quiver.
January 13th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
No problem Stephen, I am glad my short post was of some use to you.
Note: If you use iframes they will appear to break your valid feed but ignore the errors, I have confirmed with the people at feedburner that this is not the case.