Can somebody tell me what the benefits are publishing my blogs RSS via a service like Feedburner. It looks like I'll get better stats but are there other advantages. Also what other services are there like this and which are recommended? Thanks
If your host is flaky you sometimes get better performance via feedburner - it will deliver an out of date feed, but it will deliver. It can aggregate a couple of feeds together beyond that, I'm stumped. I always supply a feed cleanly from the source site and avoid 3rd party bottlenecks.
Thanks Sarah, any ideas on getting accurate subscriber stats (easily) without using a service like this?
You can add a stats tool onto the beginning of your feed script and isolate the calls. It would need to be serverside and not something like google's analytics. WordPress etc will let you do that.