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Feedburner: What are your experiences?
Posted by LazyThirdEye • 7/23/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Tags: feed burner, feedburner, feeds, publishing, publishing feeds, subscriptions, traffic
I just put our site on feedburner. It did seem to get us some hits but I was wondering if any of you have had good, bad or indifferent experiences with it that you'd like to share. What should someone using feedburner or thinking about using it know? Particularly, traffic, higher probability of scrapers and the FBI.
Matt
lazythirdeye.blogspot.com
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I don't really know getting hits from Feedburner -
comment removed by the community.
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We haven't tried it, Matt. I always figured it would just keep anyone who wanted to read our site regularly from actually showing up but I don't know that much about it.
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There are pros and cons:
Pros:
Easy to customize and professional looking landing page.
Cons:
Feedburner (not your site) gets your blog traffic.
So if having a professional appearance is more important than making sure all traffic goes through your site, it's a great tool.
HTH,
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why do you say it gets your blog traffic? -
When someone subscribes to your blog feed, they are going to Feedburner, not your site. All of the subsequent hits they make to your feed are going to Feedburner.
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Well, but if your feed has summaries only, people will still need to go to your site to read the full post. -
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Thanks for expressing that so clearly. -
lol, when people click links from the mails they receive from feedburner, u are being @ ease to reach the topics u wanna reach out for !
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I'm not sure what you mean as far as feed burner and hits. I use feed burner and people do read the blog via the feed, but it easier on most people at least those who work or go to school or do both. I read most of my blogs via feed, going to the site to comment if necessary which is not always. I like to use feed readers it convenient, you can read your blogs en masse at lunch and decide which ones to go back to in the evening for a lengthy comment. -
Interesting comments. I'm not sure why buddhab's comment was removed. I'm also not sure I want it to be easy for people to read our site with feeds. I mean, what have they ever done for me? I'm kidding but I thought if it got the word out it might drive more traffic from word of mouth and I thought the links to the site might help our ranking? I don't know. I'm not hearing anything really good or really bad about the service so far. Maybe it just doesn't matter, lol. Thanks for the comments so far though.
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Having a feed does get the word out. but for the feed to bring in traffic, the feed needs to be picked up by someone. And even if your feed does get picked up and published, you still need someone to read it.
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Really good had my blog almost 3 weeks now and got over 540 subscribers and I'm getting about 10 new ones per day
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I use feedburner but not to get hits. I don't think it's about that. I like it because it allows people to subscribe to my blog which I'm guessing makes things easier for them. And if they have a reader then they get notified everytime I publish a new post. Which is a bonus, because maybe they wouldn't come back to my blog otherwise.
I subscribe to a lot of blogs with it as well. I use Google Reader to keep track of my feed subscriptoins ... it makes life a whole lot easier, especially beause I'm subscribed to about 100 blogs. It saves me loads of time. I don't read the posts in Google Reader or thru a feed ... I always go to the blog itself. But Google Reader tells me when new posts are published and that saves me from having to visit blogs to see if anything new as been published, so now I only go when there's something new to read. -
Their readership numbers don't comport with the syndication readership numbers I get from Wordpress.com. Still, it's nice to have a rough idea of subscribers. I also like the email subscription option. I don't have a lot of email subscribers, but I do have some, which makes it worth it. I also subscribe via email so that I have an email backup for the contents of each post. (On the other hand, I haven't offered this option for subscribing to comments. Seemed like there wasn't enough interest for that, but maybe I'm wrong.) -
Okay, I think based off of this, I'll change it to partial feed. Thanks for the input (Keep it going if you have more to add though, of course. I'm still interested to hear more.)
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I am not at all sure that I fully understand this issue, but the following is my experience with feedburner. I hope it helps someone, and would love to be further enlightens as to whether my assessment is correct, or if I am missing some crucial info.
I have a blog that is driven with Wordpress software. WP software provides a built-in feed and I used that for a long time. Recently I opened a feedburner account and had my old WP feed URL redirected to it, thinking that feedburner might buy me more exposure or provide my readers with an easier way to subscribe. While this may have been true, I discovered I suddenly lost the benefit of all the traffic that was previously coming to my feed; after activating the new feedburner URL, they were getting all my hits. In July I got 5601 hits to my old feed URL. I set up feedburner early in August. This month so far I have gotten 361 hits to my old feed URL. While I may not actually be losing that traffic (it is most likely reaching me through feedburner), it does impact me when I try to show potential advertisers that my site is worth their ad dollars. They certainly don't want to see declining numbers. I just canceled my feedburner account and went back to my old feed. -
interesting discussion. certainly makes you think whether its worthwhile or not.
cheers
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