FeedBurner
// May 18th, 2006 // Technology Bits
Reading an article about Blog optimization yesterday (I lost the link…), I was pointed at a service called FeedBurner. Basically you install a plugin that takes over managing your RSS feed. So, you’re thinking, “I have an RSS feed, it works, who cares?” Well I thought the same thing and this is what sparked my curiosity.
It turns out FeedBurner rocks!
Before I go to far into why I love this service, first let me say, it is a breeze to install and enable. So, not trying it out is just plain lazy. If you don’t like it, come back and tell me why in the comments, but anyway, it’s easy to install so have at it.
The first of the two main features I like is getting statistics on who’s reading and clicking through to my stuff from feeds. The graphs are pretty and I now have an idea about readership through readers.
The second is the cool stuff they can add to the bottom of articles in feeds. Open up your reader and look at my feed. Along the bottom are some links like “Add a Comment”, “Email This”, “Digg This!”, etc. You can have FeedBurner add all kinds of sweet stuff to your articles, these are called FeedFlares.
My final comment on the service is that the overall style of the interface they use is awesome. Their help text is personable and entertaining while pointing useful things out and giving great help.
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I’m subscribed to the Atom feed, and mine doesn’t have “Add a Comment”, “Email This” or “Digg This!” links. The link to the article is going through feedburner though.
That’s odd. What reader are you using?
Opera 8.54 under XPSP2. I deleted my feed and reloaded both Atom and RSS, but still I have no sweet features.
As an update, the links now appear in Opera 9.
I wonder what changed.. Upgrade on their end? Cache expiration on yours?