First I want you all to know I know NOTHING about computers. I don't even know what an RSS feed is! I know I didn't do this the "right way" but it is the only way I could get it to work. I tinkered for several hours and once I tried almost everything the last try worked. LOL!
Anyway this is how I did it (I hope my instructions are good enough for someone to follow).
Everything below in BOLD print is words on the feedburner web page.
I went to the feedburner site.
It says on the home page
Start FeedBurning Now. Type your feed or blog URL below.
I typed in my blogger address.Then I hit next.
I don't know what rss or atom is so I left it on atom. I clicked next.
I created a user name and password.
Then it said
Congrats! Your FeedBurner feed is now live. Want to dress it up a little?
I didn't dress it up I just clicked next until I saw.You have successfully updated the feed.
I had gray tabs at the top saying
Analyze Optimize Publicize Monetize troubleshootize.
I hit publicize
On the left I had a row of choices the 4th one down said
Email Subscriptions
Offer feed updates via email
I clicked on that.
I left it marked saying
FeedBurner (Yep. We now do reliable email delivery.)
I clicked
Activate
I changed the language to English
A big box on this page has code in it I copied the code.
I then went back to my blog and under Template tab page elements
I hit add a page element.
THIS was the key for me to get it to work I clicked on....
HTML/JavaScript
Add third-party functionality or other code to your blog.I did NOT use the feed button! OK I did try it several times but couldn't get it to work. LOL!
Under title I wrote
want to subscribe to my blog?
Then I pasted my code from feedburner under content
I then hit save changes.
That was it. Somehow it worked.
I hope this works for you.
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