FeedBurner FeedSmith

During the course of upgrading this site I was finally able to get the FeedBurner FeedSmith plug-in installed on this site. FeedBurner, for those unaware, is a service, both free and paid, that allows one to track the statistics of your syndicated feeds.

The process was really easy which makes me feel silly for not taking the time to do this earlier. Here is a quick tour, started by creating a FeedBurner account and creating a new feed (in this case my posts feed):

Once you have all your FeedBurner feeds created, switch back to your WordPress–>Options–>FeedBurner menu and enter the FeedBurner feeds created earlier. For example, I have set up both my posts and comments feeds to be analyzed by FeedBurner:

With both FeedBurner and WordPress setup, FeedBurner will start tracking usage statistics on your feeds easily viewable once logged into your FeedBurner account:

Even though the WordPress plugin only allows you to track your post and comment feeds, I like the fact that you can track multiple feeds within one FeedBurner account. The best part is that all this is transparent to the user with no interruption to their subscription(s)!

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