Getting your subscribers to use it rather than the default feeds provided by your blog can sometimes cause more problems than it is worth. (Don’t confuse subscription statistics with media download statistics, these are two different measurements.)Įxtra layer of complexity – The process of setting up a FeedBurner feed is not hard, but the process of implementing can be. The feed subscription data simply doesn’t mean much to an audio/video podcast. FeedBurner’s subscription statistics don’t see when users subscribe to your podcast on an Internet connected TV through and they don’t know how many people are subscribing to your podcast through cloud-based services such as Google Listen. Subscriber statistics don’t mean much now days – The past couple of years, podcast directories such as and cloud-based services such as iTunes and Google Listen have made feed reading/subscription statistics essentially irrelevant. There is value to using rather than /my_podcast_title. Keeping your brand with your feed – By using a FeedBurner URL, you lose your domain name branding. If you ever decide to change your feed URL in the future, you will most likely lose subscribers in the process, a less than desired consequence. You are now dependent on that service for the life of your podcast. FeedBurner Disadvantagesįeed URL dependence – When you use FeedBurner, or any other feed hosting service for that matter, you hand over the responsibility to host your feed to that service. The rest of this page will discuss the disadvantages of using FeedBurner in detail and include examples of alternative solutions. Since Fall of 2011, no longer provides free support to users who use Feedburner. Issues range from incorrect feed redirection to user misinterpretation of how FeedBurner works. Fact: Nearly 50 percent of the support tickets submitted to are due to feed issues related to FeedBurner.

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