Feedburner

I meant to mention Feedburner a while ago but other things cropped up, so here I am. The Feedburner logo has been on my site for a while. I went through a step of sydincating my site so that the feeds would reach more people more easily. My own personal aggregator is Bloglines and I like them. It's a great site and makes the RSS feed stuff so easy for me. Feedburner was one syndication site I picked up and for quite some time I was unsure as to what it was doing and why I needed it. I just had to have faith!! Other people understand these things far quicker than I. Anyway, now, in the last few weeks, Feedburner has been giving me stuff I can use. I can sign in and find out what aggregators are being used, which posts are popular, how many visits and Feedburner is also another source which confirms that visitors to my site are evenly distributed over Firefox and IE6. So , I can say, after a while, these things which sit on your site come to fruition and start working for you. Patience! Patientez! The other thing I really like is the syndicated look of my blog on Feedburner. I really appreciate the trouble they have gone to to make it an aesthetically pleasing feed!! They advertise themselves thus:

"Why You Need It

As a publisher of syndicated content, be it a newsfeed, podcast, blog or otherwise, you have a vested interest in making sure your RSS or Atom feed looks its best and is easy for people to find. You also want to understand how many subscribers you have, how they are finding you and what appeals to them most so you can extend your reach beyond your wildest dreams. Finally, you may decide you want to turn all that valuable traffic into revenue, but might not know where to begin."