Monday, July 28, 2008

Add feedburner feedcount Chicklit on Blogger blogspot

Feedburner is ne widely used service is their FeedCount Chicklet which displays your Blog Feed's circulation statistics. The chicklet can be static (displaying the number of ?readers?) or animated (showing the number of ?readers? via feed). Although you can change the background and text color for the graphic display, there is no option for you to change the text. This hack will explain how to change and personalize the FeedCount Chicklet text as well as to change the animation settings so that it rolls the text more than once.

First step is sign into Feedburner account. Login to Blogger, and under Settings -> Site Feed, enter your Blog's Feedburner Feed address into the box beside ?Post Feed Redirect URL.? Readers who click the ?Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)? link or the RSS icon in their browsers will be redirected to your Feedburner Feed.

Second Step is When you are logged into Feedburner account and are viewing your Feed details, click the Publicize -> FeedCount tab. This is where you can generate a code to display a chicklet in your Blog which shows the subscriber count. Whether or not you already have a high number of subscribers doesn't really matter. A nice chicklet can draw readers' attention and make it easy for them to click the Feed link.

Choose the custom colors of the body and text and click ?Activate?. You will be given a HTML code for the Chicklet. We have to edit this code. Open MS Notepad (usually found under All Programs -> Accessories in Microsoft Windows) or a word processor program. Copy and paste this code.

The Code will look Something like this
<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Tips4NewBloggers"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/Tips4NewBloggers?bg=99CCFF&fg=444444& anim=0" height="26" width="88" style="border:0" alt="" /></a></p>


Hope this helps you! Feel free to leave comments and i will try and help if you have any problems

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