Why use feedburner for podcasting

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This is a very real possibility. Also, a lot of the feature in Feedburner especially the ones that are for podcasters actually break podcast feeds. Join the conversation; call , leave a comment below the video, or hit me up on Twitter PaulAlanClif.

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See our transition Guide. The rest of this page will discuss the disadvantages of using FeedBurner in detail and include examples of alternative solutions. Feed URL dependence — When you use FeedBurner, or any other feed hosting service for that matter, you hand over the responsibility to host your feed to that service.

You are now dependent on that service for the life of your podcast. If you ever decide to change your feed URL in the future, you will most likely lose subscribers in the process, a less than desired consequence. There is value to using www. Extra layer of complexity — The process of setting up a FeedBurner feed is not hard, but the process of implementing can be. Getting your subscribers to use it rather than the default feeds provided by your blog can sometimes cause more problems than it is worth.

The biggest complication is with feed redirection changing your podcast feed address , which is typically implemented incorrectly unknowingly by the podcaster. Though the feature is better than nothing, it is not ideal when you use a plugin such as PowerPress, where you can manually enter your own custom iTunes summary and subtitle optimized specifically for iTunes.

Podcast download statistics lacking data — The podcast download statistics gathered by FeedBurner are very basic. Though the information is useful, it does not break down platforms, clients or country demographics like services such as Blubrry Media Statistics does.