The Feedburner plugin has been adopted by Feedburner and has been renamed to FeedSmith. To see the article, you can go here: http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/05/feedburner_adopts_twoyearold_r.php For the installation, see the link above. Note, it’s different from the one in John Chows document.

I have to admit, I’m pretty excited about using it. This will allow me to track my entire feed-reading audience. Granted, I’m really in the start up phases, this is exciting. By the way, I am now seeing at least 1 new visitor a day. It’s not the best, but, it’s one more than last week!

I started the installation and things went very well until….I submitted my domain name to Feedburner. the exact message is “The URL you entered does not appear to be a valid feed. We encountered the following problem: Error on line 2: The processing instruction target matching “[xX][mM][lL]” is not allowed.” After some research, i’ve found that with free hosting, through JoesWebshack.com or GoDaddy.com, you can’t have feeds. something doesn’t sound right here.

I ended up calling tech support. From what I can tell, the automatic installation which you can do through the back end, did not install the appropriate files. So, I didn’t even have a feed directory. After an actually very informative call, I found out the only difference between free hosting and regular hosting is you can’t have feeds. So, my question now is, what to do. It appears that if I’m serious, this is the first step, figuring out how to switch this site back over to regular hosting. they also suggested I reinstall WordPress. This means, I may have to reinstall everything. I’m not too excited about that.

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