About a week back I noticed that the stats for all my feeds at Google’s Feedburner had turned to zero. Google acknowledged the issue a few days back. There has been a lot of speculation about the future of Feedburner with Google losing the Feedburner.jp domain as well as the discontinuing of the API and their Twitter account. Although Google has not come out publicly about what their plans are for Feedburner, I’ve decided to move away from Feedburner. I surveyed a few of the options available and decided that  was the best alternative. They have a detailed guide that…

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One little known and even lesser used feature of Feedburner is called MyBrand. MyBrand lets you use your own domain name to host your feed instead of feedproxy.google.com or feeds.feedburner.com. e.g. I could change my feed address from feedproxy.google.com/Techtites to feeds.techtites.com/Techtites The first step is to decide what domain you wish to use for your feeds. If you have some kind of blog network or a parent company, then this should ideally be your domain. Infact, you can even use a completely different domain name just for feeds. Let’s stick to feeds.techtites.com for now. We’ll enter that URL in Step…

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The past week our feed was down at Feedburner. It rectified itself after being down for nearly two days. Today, it went down yet again. Well, out of sheer frustration at the total lack of support at the now Google owned Feedburner, I decided to go by the new route of creating a brand new feed, this time with Google Adsense integrated in it. To ensure a smooth change, I have redirected the original feed to the new location i.e. http://feedproxy.google.com/Techtites. If you are subscribed to the Feedburner feed, please resubscribe by using the feed button in the sidebar. Now,…

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TechCrunch reports that Google has acquired Feedburner for $100 million dollars. This is indeed a great achievement for Feedburner. For us publishers, I see a lot of good things in store…

If you have missed reading the Techtites Daily this week, below is a list of everything I covered this week. Apr 23 – Money Making Monday: Get paid to surf Apr 24 – Test drive the new Google design Apr 24 – Tool Tuesday: Opimize your CSS with CleanCSS Apr 26 – Tip Thursday: Shae your Feedburner feed via Twitter Have you liked the articles so far? Do you have any suggestions for us? Do write in and let us know.

Twitter has became a big hit these days. People twitter a lot in a day. Now some Twitter fan people came up with TwitThis, a wonderful service which allows Twitter users to share Feedburner processed feeds. It helps adding a FeedFlare in the feeds which gives the option to a Twitter user to share that feed / post using Twitter with his friends and followers. It adds a “Twit This!” in the Flare which helps readers can click and share. This can be a great tool for bloggers and readers. Sharing cannot be so easy with Twitter. So if you…

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Finally the pleas of thousands of publishers has been heard. Google Reader is now reporting feed subscribers. Feedburner also reported the same. As a result of this my feed count out here at Techtites nearly doubled and crossed the 100 mark as of now. My personal blog feed count has gone up by nearly 40% to 300 subscribers (stats show me only 17% though). I didn’t realize that I had so many readers using Google Reader. Are you one among these?

Feedburner‘s recent Headline Animator Update shows that they place good importance in this as a marketing tool for your blog. I don’t see why not. The headline animator is a convenient and easy way to advertise your site. The headline animator is a simple GIF image that rotates the latest posts from your RSS feed. This means you can feature the animator on just about any site, forum or blog which allows you to display this image. It is highly recommended that you add this animator along with a link to your blog to the signature of all forums that…

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The WordPress team has just released WordPress 2.0.7. It fixes a PHP security problem. This problem effects only certain versions of PHP. It also fixes the Feedburner issue I reported earlier. If you haven’t upgraded to even 2.0.6, I recommend that you upgrade your blog ASAP, because all versions prior to 2.0.6 have a big security bug. If you are already running 2.0.6, then you only need to upload these files: wp-admin/inline-uploading.php wp-admin/post.php wp-includes/classes.php wp-includes/functions.php wp-settings.php wp-includes/version.php Changes since 2.0.6 from the dev-blog: Security fix for wp_unregister_GLOBALS() to work around the zend_hash_del_key_or_index bug in PHP 4 versions less than 4.4.3…

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If you have upgraded your site to WordPress 2.0.6 and are using Feedburner to serve your feeds, then this post is for you. Neosmart found a problem with the way WordPress served feeds to Feedburner. As a result you ended up receiving an error: Your server disconnected us before sending the full source feed content. If your blogging platform is TextPattern, this is a known bug, and a fix can be found here: http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=11247 This doesn’t cause a problem always, but it does cause it a good number of times. Mark J who has been in the forefront of WordPress…

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