Feedburner is a free RSS distribution service that’s provided by Google.com.
Feedburner takes an RSS feed and converts it into a format that can be read, or translated by the majoraity of RSS reading services.
Feedburner also provides it’s users with important statistics about their RSS subscribers, such as…
- The number of people who subscribe to the RSS feed.
- How many people are actually reading the feed content.
- The number of people clicking on the links in the feeds.
- The location of the subscribers who are reading the feed.
- and How people are reading and recieving the feed content.
By using the Feedburner service to deliver RSS content, you are also taking some of the load away from your webserver.
Feedburner is very userfreindly and easy to set up.
Your Feedburner account can also be added to your Google account, so if your logged into your Google account you can access your Feedburner account without having to log into a seperate service.
There is not a lot of technicle skill involved in adding your blogs RSS feed to your Feedburner account, nor is there when adding Feedburner to your website.
Feedburner also lets you set up multiple feeds on the one account, which means if you have more than one website that distributes content through RSS, you can set up Feedburner to manage all of your feeds.
Feedburner also provides multiple options for your feed to be delivered, One of those is email. which means your content is delivered directly to your subscribers email inbox.
You also have the ability to place Google advertising inside of your feeds.
Feedburner will also send out images, videos and podcasts, basically whatever you post onto your blog feedburner will send, even bookmarking links are included with your Feedburner content.
You could say that feedburner is like an all in one webhosting, delivery and analitycs account for your RSS feed.
