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1. autiger95
   Member
   Posted 5 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

2. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Metrics / stats.

3. aliferste
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

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

4. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 5 years ago #

   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.

5. autiger95
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Cool, makes sense. Thanks for the info.

   JD

6. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   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. :-)

7. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 5 years ago #

   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.

8. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Good question, I haven't a clue. :-)

9. Alex Mills (Viper007Bond)
   Moderator
   Posted 5 years ago #

   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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