FeedBurner is a free service that allows you to track your feed traffic and all kinds of other fun stuff. It won’t create a feed for you from scratch as often believed - rather it wraps itself snugly around a feed you bring in and adds its services therein. It has a few premium options for the serious feed publisher, too.
1- Give others permission - or shake the no-no finger - with the Creative Commons option, found under the Publicize tab in your FeedBurner dashboard.
It will pop in the logo if you like, and explain what permissions others have to use your feed. Being clear about what permissions others have to use your feed with encourage them to display your headlines on their site – or let them know that they must link to you to cite your views.
2- Turn your feed into a newsletter with Feedblitz or Squeet under Publicize/Email Subscriptions.
This turns your feed into a newsletter. It even gives you a subscribe form for your site. Now you now have a(nother) ezine option to go with your blog without any extra work.
3- Use the Browser-Friendly version, combined with FeedFlare to explain what an RSS Feed is.
First on the Optimize tab, the Browser-Friendly version turns your RSS feed into a web page, so that when new people click on your feed, without knowing what it is, they’ll know how to use it. All you do is link to the FeedBurner version of your feed, instead of your default feed address.
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