Why Feedburner?

  • autiger95

    (@autiger95)


    18 years ago

    Just curious, why would you need to use feedburner to propagate the RSS feed for your site, when that functionality is already built into WordPress.

    I have no bias either way, just wondered.

    Thanks,
    JD

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  • Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    Metrics / stats.

    aliferste

    (@aliferste)

    Yup, stats – it shows just how many people are reading your feed.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    There are other ways to gather those sort of stats too, but feedburner is probably pretty easy to use and such. I don’t know, I don’t use it myself, but it seems quite straightforward.

    Thread Starter autiger95

    (@autiger95)

    Cool, makes sense. Thanks for the info.

    JD

    Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    One other perk that slipped my mind.

    When I was self-hosted from my house, via cablemodem, having Feedburner serve all of my feed related traffic conserved a lot of bandwidth. ??

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    Good call. One I had not considered.

    Is it possible to redirect feedburner subscribers later? That is, can I rig feedburner to send a 301 if I want to host my own feed later? If not, then that would be a reason to not use feedburner, to me.

    Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    Good question, I haven’t a clue. ??

    viper007bond

    (@viper007bond)

    I use it to conserve bandwidth, especially on my site that’s feed gets massive traffic.

    That is, can I rig feedburner to send a 301 if I want to host my own feed later?

    Yes, they offer that feature for like 30 days after you delete your feed from their site.

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