I’ve known FeedBurner for a long time, but never bothered looking into it. I knew about its advantages:
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Just one URL for all RSS, RSS2, Atom feeds. It’s automatically parsed as the aggregator requests it.
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Statistics of feeds — number of subscribers and click through rate. I love stats.
Despite these features, I still liked hosting the feed on my own server, until today. After seeing that the feed can be automatically redirected to FeedBurner with a WordPress plugin, I tried it. I can’t believe how simple the process is.
- Sign up for FeedBurner
- Upload and activate the plugin.
That was it. Now no one has to write any PHP or HTML code, or change the feed URL’s, as the RSS feed for this site is automatically redirected to FeedBurner. The best part is the feed url (http://mtsix.com/feed/) will stay as long as this site exists, and no subscriber has to alter a thing.
I’m going to have to do this…I’ve known about the plugin, but I never really looked at it to see what it does.
It is really handy. It shows the stats of your subscribers, just like Mint.