Yup, stats – it shows just how many people are reading your feed.
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.
Cool, makes sense. Thanks for the info.
JD
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. 🙂
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.
Good question, I haven’t a clue. 🙂
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.
