1. Enter your blog's web address in the "Ready to Burn?" form found on FeedBurner's homepage and at the bottom of the pages in the Blog and Podcast sections. If you plan to publish a podcast with your Blogger feed, check the "I am a podcaster" box. Click Next ». The Identify Feed Source page should appear.
2. On "Welcome", make sure the title and FeedBurner address (URL) of your new feed are values you prefer.
The Create or Sign In To Your FeedBurner Account page should appear.
3. Also on this page, create a FeedBurner account by picking a username and password and supplying your email address.
When you've supplied all the required information on this page, click Activate Feed ». A"Congrats" page should appear.
4. Read all of the information on "Congrats", then click Next » to continue with the setup process.
5. If you selected "I am a podcaster" on the homepage, configuration options for our SmartCastservice will appear. Here you can supply categories and other information for iTunes, append a copyright message, and submit your podcast to Yahoo! Search.
When you are finished, click Next ». Configuration options for FeedBurner stats services should appear.
6. On the stats configuration page, select the level of feed stats detail you want.
Click Next » to finish the setup process and enter our feed management interface.
You're now ready to make your FeedBurner feed available on your Blogger site!
Tracking 100% of your feed traffic: Redirecting your Blogger feed to your FeedBurner feed
Blogger can make sure all feed traffic for your blog content goes to your FeedBurner feed. This ensures your FeedBurner stats are comprehensive and accurate; even subscribers to the 'Original Feed' are routed through FeedBurner. To redirect your feed:
In a new browser window, sign in to your Blogger account.
From the Blogger Dashboard, click the Settings link for the blog you want to promote.
The Settings page for your selected blog should appear.
Click the Site Feed link under the Settings tab.
Type your complete FeedBurner feed address into the Post Feed Redirect URL text field. Make sure you type in your entire feed address including the "http://" portion.
Click Save Settings.
You should see the message "Settings were Saved Successfully".
Blogger will now redirect all feed traffic for your blog to your FeedBurner feed.
Note: If you are using the redirection feature within Blogger to send all of your feed traffic to your FeedBurner feed, you may want to modify the code we provide (see below)in order to keep your subscribers with you, even if you leave FeedBurner.
(http://support.google.com/feedburner/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78456)
If I redirect my Blogger feed to FeedBurner, should I change my blog's feed chicklet links, too?
If you are a Blogger publisher and you've decided to use its new redirection feature to tightly connect your Blogger blog and your FeedBurner feed, you may want to change the link to the FeedBurner feed you provide on your site when using features like Chicklet Chooser and FeedCount. Why? Portability.
Let us explain:
Once you redirect 100% of your feed traffic to your FeedBurner feed, you get a very complete picture of your feed-consuming audience, including where it's coming from and what content it's finding most popular in your feed. That's great. But if this audience is almost entirely subscribing to feeds.feedburner.com/myexcellentcontent, they will be stranded if, for some reason, you should choose to leave FeedBurner and revert back to your original feed address or some other service.
Since we believe publishers always should be in control of their content and how it's promoted, we think you should know you have the option of promoting your own original feed address instead of the FeedBurner feed if you use redirection. For example, let's say you used the Google subscription chicklet:
The HTML our ChickletChooser service would provide you is the following example:
Assume your Blogger blog's address is http://myexcellentblog.blogspot.com. You would change the chicklet link code above to read as follows:
But wait, you say. I thought this was the point - promote my feed so it gets used and I get all those lovely stats! (You said this with considerable urgency.) It still is the point, but since you're redirecting 100% of your traffic to FeedBurner, the FeedBurner feed will be used at all times. The thing is, if you ever decide to leave us, there will be no hard feelings, but more importantly none of your subscribers will be left high and dry, subscribed to a FeedBurner feed address you no longer use or possibly even deleted. By promoting your original feed link only, you make use of all of FeedBurner's features but make sure your subscribers stay with you, even if you leave FeedBurner.
To summarize: Redirect your feed, but retain your original address for the links you promote.