News!! Encourage Novel Subscribers Yesteryear Enabling Feedburner's Feedcount Button

This article is most how to add together the FeedCount icon, which shows viewers how many subscribers your FeedBurner feed has, as well as lets them subscribe themselves.   The data is targeted at Blogger users, but most of it applies to anyone who uses Feedburner.

What is a FeedCount icon:

how to exercise a Feedburner feed for your blog as well as how to add together a Subscribe to my feed icon, as well as how to use Feedburner to supply an e-mail subscription option.

Feedburner also provides about other tool that yous tin terminate purpose to permit people sign upwards for your blog.  This is the FeedCount icon, which shows the number of people who are currently subscribed to your RSS feed.

This is useful because of the "social proof" that it provides:  people are to a greater extent than probable to sign upwards for something in 1 lawsuit they come across that other people receive got also signed up.

How to add together a FeedCount picture to yous blog:

Log in to Feedburner, using the Google account that owns the feed.

Click on the name of the feed yous desire to supply a subscription tool for.

Choose the Publicize tab.

Choose the FeedCount option, from the left navigation bar.

Set the options for your button:

• Static or animated (I recommend static, because things that film unnecessarily are annoying)
• Font colouring for the background
• Font colouring for the text

At the bottom of the screen, click the Activate button.

Either

• Copy the HTML that is shown, as well as add it to your blog inward the same means that yous would add whatever other 3rd political party HTML,

OR

• Choose Blogger from the drib downward listing beside "use equally a widget in", as well as click Go. 
  
  This takes yous to a Blogger enshroud where yous tin terminate choose which blog yous desire to add together the gadget to (if your electrical current login has to a greater extent than than one), as well as what title to purpose for it. 
  
  When this is done, click Add Widget. 
  
  This takes yous to the Design > Layout tab, where yous tin terminate drag-and-drop the widget to wherever yous desire it.  

Note:  if yous desire to re-generate the push at a after fourth dimension alongside unlike colouring or means options, only direct the options as well as click Save (which is at the bottom of the enshroud where Activate was originally).

What your readers see:

Your readers volition come across an item, wherever yous set it, that looks similar this:

It shows a count of the electrical current release of subscribers to your Feedburner feed.

When mortal clicks on it, they are taken to a enshroud where they direct which feed-reader software they desire to purpose to subscribe to your site.

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