I use feedburner for feed distribution on my blogs, problem is, on a few blogs, it takes feedburner hours to send out the new feeds, even though they are listed on the feedburner page i.e. if I check my feedburner account's page, it will have the latest post, but it wouldn't show in Google Reader for hours on end!
Then use something else besides Google reader...obviously that is the problem. Use a faster reader. Is this just for personal use, or are your trying to update a blog faster ?
It is not an issue for personal use, as I am obviously not reading my own blogposts, after reviewing them so many times. The issue is, if I am facing this issue, then others who are also using similar services to fetch RSS feeds, are facing it as well. Since couple of my blogs are geared towards niche news, being first to reach the reader, counts!
But you said it's only with Google reader...there are hundreds of RSS readers and people use all kinds. If you think that it's an issue, Ping your RSS feed after you post and see if that helps...or make sure you have a few Ping services in your settings to make sure that it is pinged after each post. Just search for a list of "Ping services", people post them up every so often.
I just grabbed a few from one of my blogs, I haven't really messed with them in months, so I can't vouch for how active they are, I assume they are all still good. http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc http://ping.myblog.jp http://ping.bitacoras.com http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/ http://bblog.com/ping.php Usually if you have at least 5, the rest are kind of redundant since they all alert each other. You find your ping settings in Settings->Writing and scroll to the bottom. Also submit your RSS feed to RSS directories to get your feed syndicated to more sources, make sure you set it to only allow excerpts, or headlines only to discourage content scrapers.
heres my list: http://zing.zingfast.com http://zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/ http://xmlrpc.blogg.de http://www.zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php http://www.xianguo.com/xmlrpc/ping.php http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/ http://www.weblogues.com http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2 http://www.snipsnap.org http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php http://www.popdex.com http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud http://www.mod-pubsub.org/ping.php http://www.lasermemory.com http://www.imblogs.net/ping/ http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/ http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2 http://www.catapings.com/ping.php http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi http://www.blogsnow.com/ping http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php http://www.blogsdominicanos.com/ping/ http://www.blogroots.com http://www.blogpeople.net http://www.blogoon.net/ping/ http://www.blogoole.com/ping/ http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2 http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php http://www.a2b.cc http://weblogues.com/RPC/ http://weblogues.com/ping/ http://wasalive.com/ping/ http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php http://topicexchange.com http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php http://syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php http://snipsnap.org/RPC2 http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx http://rpc.wpkeys.com http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 http://rpc.twingly.com http://rpc.technorati.jp/rpc/ping http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2 http://rpc.reader.livedoor.com/ping http://rpc.pingomatic.com http://rpc.newsgator.com/ http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080 http://rpc.britblog.com/ http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/ http://rpc.bloggerei.de/ping/ http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2 http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/ http://rcs.datashed.net http://r.hatena.ne.jp/rpc http://popdex.com/addsite.php http://pingqueue.com/rpc/ http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2 http://pingoat.com/ http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc 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http://blogsearch.google.co.in/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.co.il/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.co.id/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.co.hu/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.co.cr/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.cl/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.ch/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.ca/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.bg/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.be/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.at/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.ae/ping/RPC2 http://blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1 http://blogpeople.net/ping http://blogoon.net/ping/ http://blogoole.com/ping/ http://blogmatcher.com/u.php http://blogdigger.com/RPC2 http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc http://blogdb.jp http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC http://blog.goo.ne.jp http://blo.gs/ping.php http://bitacoras.net/ping/ http://bitacoles.net/ping.php http://bitacoles.net/notificacio.php http://bblog.comping.php http://bblog.com/ping.php http://audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2 http://api.my.yahoo.com/ping http://api.my.yahoo.co.jp/RPC2 http://api.moreover.com/RPC2 http://api.moreover.com/ping http://api.feedster.com/ping http://a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b http://1470.net/api/ping http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b Code (markup):