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Kyle93815



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Location: Austin, TX

PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:59 pm    Post subject: FeedBurner Reply with quote

I've been looking into the feed stats that FeedBurner offers. They take your current feed and convert it to a hosted feed that you point your users to.

The stats they provide are pretty comprehensive. Most people have more feed subscribers than they realize.

Well enough about FeedBurner, I don't own stock or anything. I posted because I was thinking about how using a hosted feed would fit in with the blogware service.

As far as I know, you can't remove the index.xml file from your site. You can certainly remove the link and point to a hosted link instead.

There are two problems:

-One, without removing the link, older subscribers will continue to receive the old feed and won't be reported in your new feed stats. You can tell them to move to the new feed, but they'll keep getting new posts either way.

-Two, feed reader software will often search for the site feed when the main url is entered. They are typically looking for an .xml file, which you won't be able to remove. And, even if you could remove it, a FeedBurner type link (which is not .xml) won't appear to be your site feed.

That's my two cents. Just something to think about. Of course, at the rate Blogware is going, they will incorporate their own feed stats. I was pinging Ping-o-Matic for weeks before I noticed the list of "sites to notify" under Settings. Sonofa.
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