Blogging Idol Competitors: You Need to Activate Your Feedburner Feed Count

by Daniel Scocco

This is a quick note for the bloggers that sent an application for the Blogging Idol. I am starting to create the scoreboard, and I am noticing that a large amount of the competitors don’t have the Feedburner feed count active.

In order for you to participate in the competition there are two requirements:

1. I must be able to find the Feedburner feed on your blog
2. You must have the “Feed Count” feature enabled

Those were stated in the rules so make sure you are meeting those requirements.

If you don’t know how to do this, here is a quick guide: Go to Feedburner.com, register an account and “burn your feed.” Then display that feed link somewhere in your blog. Then log into your Feedburner control panel, go under “Publicize,” and then “Feed Count.” Then activate it.

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23 Responses to “Blogging Idol Competitors: You Need to Activate Your Feedburner Feed Count”

Brad Blogging.com - Personal Blog Tips And Blog Help on October 31st, 2008 6:43 pm

Check Check and Check!

Can’t wait Daniel.
Jodith on October 31st, 2008 6:54 pm

My extremely pitiful feed count has been activated.
Raghu on October 31st, 2008 7:03 pm

Less the 24 hours to Go! Let he games begin.
TheAnand on October 31st, 2008 7:59 pm

i have goog feedburner…will it do?
Colby on October 31st, 2008 8:44 pm

Sorry about that…I activated my feed count and added the feedburner chicklet to my site. Good luck to everyone!
Joel Drapper on October 31st, 2008 8:54 pm

Ops. Sorry about that. Mine is active now. You can find it in my sidebar.
Vakeria | TimelessLessons on October 31st, 2008 8:57 pm

Thank you for the reminder Daniel, just activated the feed count.
Sohail on October 31st, 2008 9:29 pm

done it already as u said:)
Melvin on October 31st, 2008 10:09 pm

Whew.. I never know there’s another rss contest going on..
Julio Greff on October 31st, 2008 10:17 pm

Instead of Feed Count, I show the number of subscribers via XML (I don’t like that ugly image =/). Is it valid?
Neilio on October 31st, 2008 10:53 pm

Mine is active and displaying (which hurts a little seeing as it’s so low!)
SATISH on November 1st, 2008 12:22 am

Please guys do it fast..
Koichi on November 1st, 2008 1:00 am

Added it to the “about” page! Sorry about that.
TheWeblogZone on November 1st, 2008 2:23 am

Done and done.
Rohit on November 1st, 2008 2:30 am

That shouldn’t be an issue with my blog.

Anyways,it’s quite exciting to give a head-start.
d3so on November 1st, 2008 3:38 am

mine has been activated.
Hopefully my new blog will do well
happy hunting everyone!
Ruchir Chawdhry on November 1st, 2008 3:50 am

Sorry, mine’s in the sidebar now, did it after you sent the email
Young on November 1st, 2008 3:53 am

My ” feed count ” was active and you can see it in the side bar, if not, please let me know. The total subscription was only 5 up till now, but I will try it to be more.
Daniel Scocco on November 1st, 2008 4:27 am

@Julio, yeah that is fine.

As long as the feed count is active.
Arlind on November 1st, 2008 10:11 am

Does that mean that we have to put it on the sidebar or only activate it?
Daniel Scocco on November 1st, 2008 10:55 am

@Arlind, you just need to have it active.
Andy on November 1st, 2008 5:56 pm

Ready to go here!
Dot Com Dud on November 1st, 2008 9:00 pm

I’ve activated mine now. All good?