Google integrates FeedBurner with Blogspot

If you've been wondering what Google would do now that it's taken over FeedBurner, the wait is at least partially over. Google has added Feedburner integration to blogs hosted at Blogspot.

But wait, you say, couldn't we always use FeedBurner to spruce up boring Blogger/Blogspot feeds? Right you are. But you had to jump through so many hurdles to change the auto-discovery preferences for your blog that you never really knew if subscribers were signing up through FeedBurner or Google's automatically generated feed.

Now there's a nice new setting conveniently located under Settings/Site Feed that lets you redirect your site feed. That's it. Type in your FeedBurner address and you're all set. In fact, there's nothing stopping you from entering any feed redirecting service.

Of course, true integration would mean not having to redirect anything at all. Perhaps sometime down the line we'll see Google make FeedBurner the default feed service for Blogspot.

Tags: blogger, blogspot, feedburner, rss