What’s My Feedburner ID?

September 30th, 2007 Nathan Rice

FeedburnerFeedburner is an absolute dream come true for a blogger. In fact, I would put in in the top 5 tools that every single blogger needs in their arsenal. It tracks the number of feed subscribers you have, it allows you to offer feed updates via email, and it even has professional site statistics now too! (all for free, mind you)

If you don’t have an account there yet, go there and get one … NOW!

OK, now that you have an account, there are a few things you need to know about feedburner.

1. My feedburner address

This is actually pretty simple, but for the sake of the absolute beginner, you feedburner address is chosen by you when you burn your feed. It usually looks something like this: http://feeds.feedburner.com/myfeedaddress (where “myfeedaddress” is the unique feed string you’ve chosen).

2. My feedburner ID


This one is a little more tricky, but still pretty easy to discover. The first thing you want to do is go to the feedburner homepage and click “sign in”.

Sign In

Next, you’ll want to put in your username and password.

Login

Once you’ve done that, go ahead and click on the feed you want to find the ID for.

Select Feed

Once you’ve clicked the feed you’re interested in, take a look at your address bar. It should have a URL in it like this one:

My ID

Notice the string of numbers I outlined in red? THAT is your feedburner ID for that particular feed.

Copy it down and keep it for later. It just may come in handy :-)

While we’re in there…

Activate the Email Subscription Option

Feedburner also offers you the ability to let users sign up for your feed to be delivered to them via email. But the service must be active first. Here’s how to activate it.

Once you’ve logged in and chosen the feed you want to offer via email, click the “Publicize” tab. Now, on the left hand side of the screen you should see some options. Look for the “Email Subscriptions” link and click it.

Then, just activate it. Once you’ve done that, you may want to poke around in the options and see if there’s anything you’d like to change or customize. But once the email subscription service is active, you’re set to deliver you feed to anyone who signs up!

So What?

OK, this IS sort of an elementary tutorial, I know. It may not seem very useful now, but you’ll see soon enough that it was necessary. If you already knew how to do all this, just ignore this story :-)

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8 Responses to “What’s My Feedburner ID?”

Madhur Kapoor Said:

Feedburner is just awesome . I have been using it since the time i started blogging

Comment made on October 1st, 2007 at 7:25 am
ben Said:

For some reason the feedburner plugin doesnt show the Email Subscription link in the sidebar. The sidebar contains the code, but nothing is showing. I activated the email subscription in Feedburner.com

Let me know what I have done wrong. Thanks

Comment made on October 11th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Nathan Rice Said:

Ben,
Are you having trouble with feedburner itself, or with one of my themes?

Nathan

Comment made on October 11th, 2007 at 11:21 am
Corvida Said:

Elementary maybe, but even such tuts are necessary sometimes. Thanks for providing!

Comment made on January 18th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Nathan Rice Said:

@Corvida
Yeah, I agree. I guess it can’t be too simple :-)

Comment made on January 18th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Beauty-Babe Said:

Thanks Nathan, I know it’s an old article but I was having quite a bit of trouble getting feedburner to work properly and you covered it all in this post

Comment made on April 12th, 2008 at 2:26 am
Manny Said:

Thanks! I’ve been looking for this as I’m setting up a new revolution theme for wordpress

Comment made on April 30th, 2008 at 2:59 am
Alan Bradford Said:

Thanks for this post. I would have searched for a long time for this - never would have thought to look in the address bar.

Comment made on May 15th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

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