Feedburner - Advantages?
 

Other than the stats (which I think is pretty cool) what, if any, are the advantages to running your feeds through there rather than using the raw feed from the blog?

I have noticed that when I was using a combo of Blogger and feedburner, lots of other splogs were using my posts, complete with aff codes and all, for their content.

bunky...was it credited in some way? Although the aff codes is a good thing...

nope... no credit at all. http://www.mmsbusiness.info/info/Big-Asses and http://www.berlincity.biz/info/Cute-Model there are more, but I get a hit here and there... not much else.

But was that related to being a feedburner feed or did you "know" about it because of the stats feedburner provides?

it has only happened to posts from bunky's beauties... that's it. As per the stats on feedburner, I don't think they display referring urls. I haven't checked over there in a long time.

I wondered about feedburner myself, dont see any traffic from them. I thought it was mainly an easy way for readers to add your feed/blog to their reader. Course as said, is it any better than just using the feed that comes with your blog, good question. Also, is it a traffic leak that does'nt give anything back?

ronnie

I decided to play around with it on a couple feeds. Haven't integrated it very much yet but I do like the auto ping feature. It pings your site every 30 minutes and when it finds a change it then pings a number of places automaticly. You have to setup the option which took some looking around to find but at least now when I forget (which I do often) most of the most important places will at least get pinged with my feedburner feed.

Will probably be a month or so before I could talk about any other benifit.

So....any feedback on that? I'm looking into using them for a little somethin'-somethin'.

I'm a convert, everything I do is now a feedburner feed.

1) it makes your feed readable in a browser.
2) I'll actually find, in a few instances where my feedburner feed comes up ahead of my blog in SE stats.
3) The stats thing is interesting but not really overly useful. I do like seeing how many people are using my feeds and whether they are using a SE reader or something else
4) They have a bunch of cool little widgets. like since some of my blogs are video based they can set up my feed for podcasts. I also like the blog buzz...it basicly takes a snipet of your feed and formats it for a sidebar...great for cross blog promotion. In fact, if I could find more people interested, I'd love to exchange links that way versus a normal link exchange.

I have a little AVN feed on my LL (and yes I realize most webmasters don't like AVN, but it's stupid porn news for surfers), and I've often thought about throwing the same code into one of my blog sidebars, but I never knew what to put in there. This brings up a couple of ideas.

Either cross-premote with another blog...

OR

Plunk in Useless' hosted blogs as it will add content to my site but not be part of my blogs feed for aggregation.

Super. I am attempting to add RSS feeds to the category pages of one of my link lists just to see if I can get a few hits here and there, as well as some inbound links. I managed to create a small script that will mock up a valid XML feed, but then I sat there wondering how I was supposed to ping anyone. I remebered this thread about FeedBurner and noticed that a few of you use it for your own feeds - and that was my salvation. Let's just hope it was worth the aggravation.

Cool idea, actually.....be sure and add links to all the SE's and bookmarking places so someone might even subscribe. http://www.twistermc.com/shake/RSS-index.php#top should be able to create the code for you to do that. If not you can get the info on how to add the buttons for the major SE's here (ok so it is my site)

http://www.misterwalrus.com/abt/inde...d=13&Itemid=23

Feedburner also takes the bandwidth hit off of you if you have enough feed hits to make it a concern.

Plus the stats are pretty cool. :)