Connecting to FeedBurner

Account Levels: This feature is available to all Pro plans.

FeedBurner is a feed management provider that can help you optimize your feed, publicize your blog, analyze traffic to your feed, and even make money from your feed.

If you would like to use a FeedBurner feed for your TypePad blog, you will first need to register for a FeedBurner account. After registering, you can connect your TypePad feed to FeedBurner, so that your subscribers will automatically pull the feed from FeedBurner without having to switch URLs.

If you choose to use a FeedBurner feed, readers who have subscribed to your existing TypePad feeds will be automatically redirected to your new feed's URL. Additionally, the auto-discovery URL for your blog will be automatically redirect to the new FeedBurner feed's location.

Why should I connect my blog to FeedBurner?

• Get statistics for the number of subscribers and visitors to your blog. All feed URLs available for your blog will be routed through your FeedBurner feed. Even readers who subscribed before connecting to FeedBurner will counted. FeedBurner also has the ability to track visitors to your site.
• Add content to your feed. FeedFlare can be easily added to your feed and blog through TypePad. FeedBurner also offers many other features you can add to your feed, including images and ads. Information is available in the adding FeedFlares article.
• Make it even easier for readers to subscribe to your feed. When you connect your blog to FeedBurner, the Subscribe link in your blog's sidebar will go to a FeedBurner page in HTML with links to popular feed readers that you can use to subscribe to the feed.
• Set up email subscriptions. Offer an option for your readers to receive a daily email when you publish new posts. More information is available in the article on adding email subscriptions.

Configuring FeedBurner

Please note the instructions do not apply to the beta version of FeedBurner. To follow the instructions below, click the Old interface link in FeedBurner.

Log in to your FeedBurner account and look for the Burn a feed right this instant field. You will enter your blog's URL in the field and click the Next button. FeedBurner will automatically find the feed URL for your blog.

On the next page, set a Feed Title (typically the name of the blog) and a Feed Address. The feed address will be in the form http://feeds.feedburner.com/feedname. You will specify the feed name portion of the URL.

Click through the remaining option pages until you reach the You have successfully updated the feed page. The next step is to connect the feed in TypePad.

Connect to FeedBurner in TypePad

At Settings > Feeds, click Connect to FeedBurner. In the pop-up window, enter the URL for the feed from FeedBurner and then click Save.

There should be no spaces within your FeedBurner feed URL.

Your FeedBurner feed is now ready to use! You can check your FeedBurner account to see the number of subscribers you have, add FeedFlare, etc.

Note

Some subscribers with blogs using special characters like ampersands (&) and apostrophes (') in their blog title have reported issues when trying to connect their blog to FeedBurner. We recommend removing these special characters and then repeating these steps if you experience this issue.