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Why Use Feedburner for Feeds

Written by: Korey Kashmer

Article Overview: Feeds have become second nature on the internet today. Almost every news source provides a feed to grab that data. So how can you grab feeds but do it in a way that makes it simple. FeedBurner of course!

Why Use Feedburner for Feeds

Feeds have become second nature on the internet today. Almost every news source provides a feed to grab that data. So how can you grab feeds but do it in a way that makes it simple. FeedBurner of course! FeedBurner is a feed management tool that has been acquired by Google. Taking a closer look FeedBurner has a ton of tools within the interface that can help manage your feeds.

For the novice, if your website has a way of generating content, like a blog, there is a standard feed provided that shows data from that source. FeedBurner then makes that data/feed easier to manage by adding an interface to it.

some of the nice features:

• tracking of subscribers
• feed formatting
• domain branding

Not only can you interface FeedBurner to a website, you can use it as a hub for all your feeds.

If your new to feeds I strongly suggest checking out FeedBurner as it can save you a ton of time.

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