I decided to give FeedBurner a try. I sometimes have to recreate a feed because WordPress can have a problem with some feeds. However feeds that are imported into DabbleDB and then exported again seem to have better success in WordPress. There is a lot of excitement about FeedBurner and they were recently purchased by Google.

I did create a feed, however it was not accepted by WordPress. However, I created a derivative feed off of the same feed in DabbleDB and I got it to work in WordPress. For me, DabbleDB will be my feed generator. I suppose if you are interested in syndicating your feeds, FeedBurner is the place. Also FeedBurner allows you to advertize with feeds (would love to know how this practically compares to Google’s Adwords “Content Network” which is broadly considered to be a waste of money.) However, for simply reforming feeds to be accepted by picky receiving systems – like WordPress, presently FeedBurner does not appear competitive. However, where FeedBurner does add value is in syndicating your website feed. Here you can see we just setup several blog feeds in FeedBurner..

This is supposed to increase the visibility of your sites as many search bots look to FeedBurner as an aggregated area on the web to pickup content. We will let you know how it works in a later post.

If anyone has any comments on FeedBurner and why it is so great (or not so great), I would love to hear them.