What’s the benifet to use feedburner feed instead of WP’s own?

  • I’m at the point whether I should use feedburner’s feed to replace WP’s own feed, what do you think?
    Thanks

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  • Only if you have a reason. I use Feedburner so I can use their email subscription service. Using Feedburner will also save you on bandwidth, since people will use Feedburner’s bandwidth instead of yours.

    Tracking. Feedburner allows you to see how many people have signed up to your feed, it’s much harder to do that using the built in rss. But, you obviously have more control if you do it yourself, since who knows if feedburner will be down or whatever.

    Stephen Cronin

    (@stephencronin)

    I wouldn’t expect FeedBurner to be down often – they are owned by Google and Google don’t go down often. However, a couple of points against using them:

    a) feedburner feeds are blocked in some countries (I live in China and they are blocked here).

    b) if your users subscribe to the FeedBurner URL, then you are tied into their service. They are a great service now, but who knows whether you’ll still want to use them in 2 years time. If you do use them, use a redirection plugin such as FeedBurner’s FeedSmith and get people to subscribe to your URL, not the FeedBurner one. Some will still end up with the FeedBurner URL, especially those using Google Reader, but its better to get as many people using YOUR url.

    Having said all that, I use them…

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