More feedburner help please!

[ses5909]

Ok, in all of our recent posts (if you include your rss feed in your profiles) to shows the title of the post which then links to the post. I have a feedburner feed as do some other people here. My post however links to a very ugly:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/theblogexperiment/blog/~3/139922722/

and Jeremy's for example looks all pretty

http://genxfinance.com/2007/08/01/your-long-commute-may-cost-you-more-than-time-and-money/

What setting do i need to set in feedburner?

[shyflower]

Sara when I clicked your RSS feed button on your blog I got:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/theblogexperiment/blog

and when I clicked it here to go to your block I got:

http://www.theblogexperiment.com/blog/2007/08/02/make-commenting-easy-for-your-visitors/

[aussietico]

It looks silly having them house your content for you. :)

Anyway, why use feedburner at all when you can better monitor and analyse the stats using the server's log files and any decent stats package?

[BigMooch]

Sara, if you want Feedburner stats on click-throughs the link has to run through Feedburner.

I'm guessing you could turn off click through tracking, but I'm guessing you want your stats.

And aussietico, I don't think Feedburner looks silly ZiffDavis uses Feedburner for all of their feeds. While it may be helpful to you to look a log files, I'd rather not. Feedburner makes it dead simple to make RSS feeds more usable as well, which is important to the non techie audience.

Also with since Google bought them they offer the MyBrand service for free where the feed can look like it lives on your server if you want.

Finally with the RSS feed being off your server you have to cover none of the bandwidth. RSS is heavy no markup for the amount of content served and with feedreaders pulling content more often than perhaps they should, getting RSS off your servers can help the bottom line.

[aussietico]

Using it doesn't look silly, having them hold your content like the links above does because it completely removes your site from the equation.

[Jeremy]

Mooch is right, you have to turn off click tracking in your feedburner stats setting. I had that problem as well for another site I was showing my feed on, but turning that off did the trick.

[ses5909]

Thanks BigMooch and Jeremy. That seemed to do the trick. Also, great explanation about feedburner. I know to show the latest post here, i cache it every hour or so to help save the hosts bandwidth, but still, can be a lot of views!

[BlogBookmark]

Sara, if you want Feedburner stats on click-throughs the link has to run through Feedburner.

I'm guessing you could turn off click through tracking, but I'm guessing you want your stats.

And aussietico, I don't think Feedburner looks silly ZiffDavis uses Feedburner for all of their feeds. While it may be helpful to you to look a log files, I'd rather not. Feedburner makes it dead simple to make RSS feeds more usable as well, which is important to the non techie audience.

Also with since Google bought them they offer the MyBrand service for free where the feed can look like it lives on your server if you want.

Finally with the RSS feed being off your server you have to cover none of the bandwidth. RSS is heavy no markup for the amount of content served and with feedreaders pulling content more often than perhaps they should, getting RSS off your servers can help the bottom line.That's all great but the bottom line is that allowing feedburner to mask your URL takes away all the backlinks you would have gotten.

[BigMooch]

That's all great but the bottom line is that allowing feedburner to mask your URL takes away all the backlinks you would have gotten.

What backlinks? The links in people's feed readers that are behind login gates that never get indexed?

Or are we talking about Search Engines indexing the RSS feed itself? If that's the case then you can use the My Brand service to make the links appear from your domain.

In either case I'm not sure how much links on your RSS feed help you.

I'm not a Feedburner employee or anything, I just think that people are way to sensitive about their content. If you feel like you need your URL to communicate your brand, then your content isn't doing it.

As bloggers your brand should be communicated in every post, so that regardless of what the URL of the link is people know that it's you.