Bloggers can now offer email subscriptions and monitor RSS feed stats through FeedBurner.  Details on setting up subscriptions for member blogs can be found on the support forums .

Visitors can now subscribe to a site wide feed, by RSS or via daily email alert.  Just go to the New Posts pag, and choose which delivery method is best.

A heads up to the community, the Google Adsense ads program is fully functional so bloggers can now place their own Adsense ads on their blogs. Hopefully it will be worth some beer & gear money. Here’s the tutorial, and post any problems encountered to the forum.

TO CLARIFY: These are users ads, not for the benifit of OutdoorsBlogger, and are optional.  You place your own Adsense code, and get your check from Google.  We’re not placing ads on everybody’s blog, period.

Installing Google Adsense on OutdoorsBlogger

In addition to OutdoorsBlogger being found on MySpace and Outdoorzy.com, we are proud to announce the implementation of the Gregarious Social Bookmarking Plugin.

OutdoorsBloggers may now:

• Add a Digg badge to any or all posts
• Add Reddit buttons
• Email to a Friend functionality
• Ability to bookmark on StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Technorati, and many more

All this can be done through the admin interface with no need to code anything.  Just activate the plugin from the plugins menu, and then edit the options labeled “Gregarious” under the options menu.

OutdoorsBlogger isn’t just for blogging.  You can use it to make static websites for your trail club, charter service, guide outfit, or anything else outdoors for that matter.  When a visitor clicks on your channel (outdoorsblogger.com/yourchannelhere), your home page loads instead of the typical blog layout. Don’t worry, you can still have a blog on your channel too.

Why is OutdoorsBlogger great for web sites?

1. It’s so easy to use.  Anybody who can use the internet can creat pages, write content, upload photos, create sub pages, change themes, and so much more - all without knowing how to write HTML code.
2. It’s networked with other publishers of similar interests. Outdoors sports is all we do, so traffic from other areas of the site can’t get more targetted.
3. Even if it doesn’t look like it, it is still based on blog software… and search engines love them.
4. Best of all, it doesn’t cost you a penny.  Even if you maintain a separate web site, creating an OutdoorsBlogger space is a great way to drive focused traffic to you or your organization.

Steps to make your web space at OutdoorsBlogger

1.  Sign up, if you haven’t already
2. From the administration menu, create your home page by clicking “Write” and choosing “Page” from the sub menu.  Give your page a title, and click “Publish”, you can come back to edit the home page at any time.
3. Then click “Options” and the sub menu “Reading.” The first option deals with what your front page shows, and change it to “Static Page,” and choose the home page to display first. You can choose another page to display your blog, if you so desire.
4. That’s it. Use the editor to add content, photos, links, and anything else on your home page so that it’s just the way you like it.