Following up on yesterday’s post, here is more you can do with FeedBurner.

Check your stats

One of the best features is the ability to check your stats and know how many people are accessing your feed and what specifically they are looking; in FeedBurner parlance this is called reach or people that took a specific action with your feed items.

You can check Live Hits which shows you anyone that has opened the feed in a browser or reader or bot. Determine what items/posts are getting read the most with Item Use and see if anyone is mashing-up your content with Uncommon Uses.
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As more people begin to use RSS and Atom feeds to subscribe to online content, making it easy for them to subscribe will be an important way of gaining new readers. With so many choices in aggregators and online news readers, FeedBurner takes care of these details for you.
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The fourth tool in our arsenal is Blogrolling, the link manager and sidebar organizer. Here is a great description:

“BlogRolling is a one-stop linklist manager for your blog or journal, helping you manage your ever-evolving linklist with ease.”
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The third tool in our Essential Blogging Tools series is Feedblitz - the rss to email workhorse; at the time of this post they were serving 702301 email addresses and 56746 active feeds!. The service is popular not only because you can use it to serve your feed to subscribers, but also because you can have any rss feed sent to you by email. This is syndication made easy.

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Pingomatic has become the most popular pinging service due to its simplicity. It does one thing and does it fairly well, considering the number of people using it (according to their stats page, it handles about 20M+ pings a day). This tool contacts over 22 different search engines to let hem know that you have updated your site’s content.

Some tools, like Wordpress, have the ping address - rpc.pingomatic.com - listed by default, automatically sending out a notice when you’ve updated. You can also go to the Pingomatic main page hand enter your blog address and update your site manually. To keep up with what’s happening with them - yep they have a blog - http://blog.pingomatic.com/.

Technorati Tags: ping-g-matic, pingomatic, pinging, rss, feeds, blogs, blogging

Bloglines lets you read your favorite blogs online - take your news with you. It is one of the most popular feed aggregators around and has gotten better under the ownership of Ask.com.

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If you have ever stared at a new blog and wondered you could add to liven the page, you’ll like this series. I’m going to cover the seven most popular and useful blogging tools every site needs to create a better user experience.
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