Feedburner - Advantages?

walrus · 2006-03-19, 03:05 PM

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?

bunky2u · 2006-03-19, 03:42 PM

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.

anasporn · 2006-03-19, 04:14 PM

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

bunky2u · 2006-03-19, 04:36 PM

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.

walrus · 2006-03-19, 05:28 PM

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

bunky2u · 2006-03-19, 05:52 PM

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.

ronnie · 2006-03-21, 08:05 AM

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

walrus · 2006-03-21, 10:21 AM

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.

Useless · 2006-06-27, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by walrus

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'.

walrus · 2006-06-27, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

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.

Preacher · 2006-06-27, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by walrus

...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.

dr_montelbaun · 2006-06-30, 07:39 PM

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.

2006-03-19, 03:05 PM	#1
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2006-03-19, 03:42 PM	#2
bunky2u Hey, can you take the wheel for a second, I have to scratch my self in two places at once Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Alberta Canada Posts: 183	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. __________________ XXX Link Dump submit away! =)

2006-03-19, 04:14 PM	#3
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2006-03-19, 04:36 PM	#4
bunky2u Hey, can you take the wheel for a second, I have to scratch my self in two places at once Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Alberta Canada Posts: 183	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. __________________ XXX Link Dump submit away! =)

2006-03-19, 05:28 PM	#5
walrus Oh no, I'm sweating like Roger Ebert Join Date: May 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 1,773	But was that related to being a feedburner feed or did you "know" about it because of the stats feedburner provides? __________________ Naked Girlfriend Porn TGP free partner account

2006-03-19, 05:52 PM	#6
bunky2u Hey, can you take the wheel for a second, I have to scratch my self in two places at once Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Alberta Canada Posts: 183	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. __________________ XXX Link Dump submit away! =)

2006-03-21, 08:05 AM	#7
ronnie Wheither you think you can or you think you can't, Your right. Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: midwest Posts: 2,274	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

2006-03-21, 10:21 AM	#8
walrus Oh no, I'm sweating like Roger Ebert Join Date: May 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 1,773	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. __________________ Naked Girlfriend Porn TGP free partner account

2006-06-30, 07:39 PM	#12
dr_montelbaun Rock stars ... is there anything they don't know? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 10	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. __________________ Dr. Montelbaun The Internet is for Porn http://www.internetisforporn.com