# Friday, July 27, 2007
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FeedBurner
It seems everyone these days is using FeedBurner or some other feed aggregation service, so I finally jumped on the band wagon and setup a feed for this blog @ http://feeds.feedburner.com/sneal.  There were several compelling reasons to do this:

  1. Feed speed optimization, my blog server isn't the hottest thing around - by a long shot.  In fact its on my todo list to find a new hoster.
  2. Exposure, hopefully I can draw in more readers.
  3. Feed analytics.  Right now I have really no idea if anyone ever reads this blog, or how often.
  4. Everyone's doing it.

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Friday, July 27, 2007 4:42:33 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [3]  |  Related posts:
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Friday, July 27, 2007 4:43:35 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
I should also setup Google Analytics...
Sneal
Sunday, July 29, 2007 5:08:35 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
How is that different than RSS if it even is? I currently subscribe to your RSS as well as other blogs. If it's the type of software that i'm seeing on your site to post comments it is a step up from before.

>> 2. Exposure, hopefully I can draw in more readers.

One tactic I have seen is for bloggers to post a link back to their blog in the comments on popular blogger sites. It is somewhat effective because if someone makes a very interesting point and/or are frequently posting interesting comments then I myself will click on their blog link to read more and see what else they talk about.

(i've seen a "pingback" type approach but not clear how that works and how effective is that)
vega
Monday, August 06, 2007 7:08:16 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
With Google analytics (which I did setup) I only get info on people viewing the site through a web browser running JavaScript - it completely ignores viewers who read your blog through an RSS aggregator/reader. FeedBurner is a sort of RSS feed proxy that allows you to attach meta-data to your feed and best of all, get RSS feed analytics.
Sneal
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