Wordpress, Blogger, dotclear, etc… Whichever blogging platform he uses, the best friend of a blogger, Apart from his blog of course, is his RSS feed. Sure, your blog might have a real nice design with uber cool features, and this is a very good point in your favour. but nevetherlessss, it is a fact that there will always be a portion of your readers who will be following you through your feeds. (I might well be one of them )

Now, why let that feed of yours remain in its sad original form, when you could make it an integral part of your site? Your feed is a tool, you only need to know how to use it at its fullest potential. The easiest way to optimise your feed is to burn it. hey, Lo siento! i didnt mean you needed to go and set fire to your pc! No, actually i meant that with a feedburner account, you can optimise your atom or rss feed. click here for a web-based example of my own feed. Of course, you can also read such feeds in all available feedreaders!

What can a burned (burnt?) feed do? Well, many things. among others, it can let your visitors subscribe to your posts by email, (yes, even non-wordpress users!), create a nice gif button for your site (As hans-kun magnificently shows how to do

Okies, interested?? Here we go Now go to Feedburner.com And follow this short silent video-tuto to get you started. you can then start experimenting your burnt feeds right away!

Edit: Link to video-tuto in enhanced quality (MOV format)