Do you want to find a way to improve your feed be a great way to get good traffic, (possibly) attracting more Diggs, and Stumbles? Well, why not add a link to comments, the blog post, and to any social networks they might wish to click?
You can do this fairly easily using Better Feed, which improves your feed in a number of ways. It automatically
- Adds a permalink to your post at the bottom of the feed.
- Adds a link to comments to the bottom of the feed.
- Adds links to categories at the bottom of the feed and
- Adds links to Technorati.
It also permits you, the blogger to add additional html text.
My knitting blog displays a footer that almost matches the default; I replaced some paragraph breaks with line breaks. This is what the footer on the feed of my knitting blog as displayed in Google Reader.
Are you saying “Big deal”? Well, the link to comments, in particular, can encourage some regular visitors to come to the blog to post their own comment.
I’d show you the BigBucksBlogger footer, but the feed exists only after I hit “publish”, the Google reader only displays the new feed a little later. (The time delay is a bit inconvenient if you edit, since you’ll need to publish, then read your footer. Plus, the feed services can be stubborn about updated- which is why some of you may see typos in the footer today! But.. oh well. 
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How can you customize the footer?
First, you don’t need to customize. The default footer is already terrific. But if you want to add or remove things to the footer, you should look for the bit of code that falls between ‘‘ and ‘FEEDFOOT;’
Start by adding html you’d like to appear after the “Technorati” link. Then examine your footer, and you can start to move things around.
Over the next few days, I’ll be adding appropriate links to encourage people to add my post to social networks. When I figure that out, I’ll let you know how to do it!
Does this work in 2.3?