June 07, 2006
Your FeedBurner Feed is in My TypePad Blog!
We've been working closely with our friends at Six Apart to improve the connection between TypePad blogs and FeedBurner feeds, and lo, the integration is complete. Starting today, you can choose to connect your TypePad feed to FeedBurner, thereby taking advantage of all of the subscriber measurement and feed promotion tools that are there for the taking. You can also disconnect your feed from FeedBurner just as easily. Chocolate and peanut butter aside, we think this integration is pretty tasty.
What This Means for You
If you are a current FeedBurner customer publishing a TypePad blog, you can now get the full picture of your audience's size. Subscribers who may receive updates from your native TypePad feed can join the subscribers to your FeedBurner feed to become one big happy family, viewable in its entirety from your trusty FeedBurner charts. (CAUTION: Joining these feeds may cause your subscriber numbers to increase!) New TypePad customers — from individual bloggers to the growing number of Fortune 500 corporations and media companies using TypePad Business Class — can set up this connection during the initial blog configuration process.
Getting Connected
Just log into your TypePad account and select the "Feeds" option from the Configure tab of the application. Six Apart has created a few simple screens that walk you through the drama-free process of "connecting" your feed to FeedBurner. Once you've completed the connection, you can log in to your FeedBurner account to take advantage of all that feed management goodness.
I Have a Question of the Tech Support Nature...
We've put together a nice little FAQ with answers to questions we think you might have. If your questions have more to do with the TypePad side of things, please start with Michael Sippey's post at Everything TypePad. Also, much like New York pizza, our Support Forums are open for business around the clock and the answers you receive inevitably taste better warmed up the next day.
Enough with the food chatter already. Salut!
UPDATE 6/22: Six Apart integrates additional FeedBurner services into the TypePad platform.
- FeedFlare: You no longer have to roll up your sleeves and dig into your TypePad template to use our popular FeedFlare service. Now, there is one-click addition of FeedFlare to standard TypePad templates. Behold the simple configuration process. Once configured, log into your FeedBurner account and customize which FeedFlare units appear in your feed and on your site.
- Ping Us: If you've connected your TypePad feed to FeedBurner and enabled TypePad's Publicity tools, TypePad will automatically notify FeedBurner when you make updates to your blog. Check it out.
Comments
Awesome! Will this type of integration ever be available for blogs powered by Movable Type?
Pat, until Movable Type integrates with Feedburner, there are a few manual steps you can take to move your subscribers over to their great service. I outlined a FeedBurner migration process last month, and can help you out with your blog if you'd like.
TypePad recently added your Subscribe Now as a widget that I could automatically add to my blog. Only trouble is, I cannot figure out for the life of me how to make that work. I suspect either (a) it is not working or (perhaps more likely, I supposed ;-), (b) it IS working, but there is something that so un-obvious about it that it is still not obvious enough to me.
Thanks ;-)
is Typepad more accurate than blogger as far as subscriber tracking?
This integration is great, but unless the FeedBurner feed is replacing either the RSS or ATOM feed, you'll end up with 3 feeds. Does it replace one of them? Also, Blogger have started generating RSS feeds, is there a way to make the Blogger RSS feed URL redirect to the FeedBurner feed address or disappear completely?
Wayne,
If you activate FB/TP integration, all of the feeds TypePad publishes for you, Atom or RSS, will redirect to your FeedBurner feed. This is how we can then track 100% of your feed subscriber statistics.
As for Blogger: there is currently no way to redirect Blogger traffic to FeedBurner, but making sure your "autodiscovery" links in your Blogger template promote your FeedBurner feed isn't a bad place to start: http://forums.feedburner.com/viewtopic.php?t=3377
Rock!
Hi! First congratulations on all the great services you provide!
I would like to know if you have something like that related to Movable Type, and when are the portuguese version coming? I already put on my site, but a lot of people here in Brazil don´t speak english, and will get lost on the way.
Thanks a lot!
Best regards, Nick
I wish i could be in a type pad blog for viewing its certain features.
Wayne,
About integration of blogger with feedburner, check out this blog post. I think it can solve your problem:
http://miglate-howto.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-integrate-feedburner-with.html
