WebDiggin.com: An Adventure to Make Money Online

Those of you who blog know this. Those of you who are just starting out might not. Feedburner provides webtools to help you distribute your bloggy goodness around the internet through email newsletters and RSS syndicated feeds. You set up an account. You set up your blog website(s). You blog like normal and every time you post, feedburner distributes your updates to people who have signed up for your email newsletters and RSS feeds. It’s that simple.

We moved. Not our website address, but our RSS feed address. Our RSS feed used to be: feeds.feedburner.com/CashFlow. We’ve since moved to feeds.feedburner.com/WebDiggin. It has to do with our experiment to brand ourselves online using Web2.0 and to establish a social network by creating pages on facebook, myspace, twitter and the like.

What’s a RSS feed? Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a way to publish frequently updated content. Essentially blogs post content frequently and people use software to read these feeds when they want. (The Open Directory has a list of feed readers if you’re looking.)

If you WordPress to blog your wisdom, setting up a RSS feed is as easy as 1-2-3. One, install the Feedburner/Feedsmith plugin on to your blog. Two, create a Feedburner account. Three, once you have created your FeedBurner feed, enter its address into the Feedburner plugin options page (http://feeds.feedburner.com/yourfeed). That’s it, you’re done!

When we recently moved our website to Bluehost, we didn’t have a problem keeping our subscribers subscribed because we simply typed in our old feedburner address into our new blog feedburner plugin page (feeds.feedburner.com/CashFlow). The name, CashFlow is quite nice, but because we’re brandin’ WebDiggin, we needed to change our feed address. And originally, we were worried that the 4 people who subscribe to our cashflow RSS feed would have to be inconvinienced and switch to our WebDiggin RSS feed. (Better now than when we have 4 thousand.)

But, we were messing around and found that when we signed up WebDiggin at our FeedBurner account and simply put in our old RSS feed (feeds.feedburner.com/CashFlow) as the source of our new bloggy goodness (feeds.feedburner.com/WebDiggin), it works. So maybe Feedburner is perfect.

Bottom Line: Use Feedburner to syndicate your blog around the world through email newsletters and RSS feeds. It can come with you when you change webhosts or when you change feed names.

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