9/01/2006

As you’ve probably been reading, there are basically three problems many webmasters have with web feeds (that is, among those who are already familiar with them on a basic level).
The three concerns I hear the most are:
“How do I deal with the bandwidth hit?”
“Is there a way to include information that isn’t in the automated resource I use to populate my feed without touching any code?”
and
“Where can I find a cost-effective, simple way to display feeds on my site?”
Say Goodbye to Bandwidth Overages with FeedBurner

If you’re a publisher, chances are, you’re familiar with the bandwidth increase that occurs every time your audience reads the latest update to your feed that for some webmasters lead to the possibility of exceeding monthly bandwidth limitations. There’s an easy solution.
Burn your feed with FeedBurner. They’re happy to take the burden off your server. (And yes, they say, FeedBurner is one word.)
Whether you’ve just created your news feed or you have been RSS-ing for years, you can create a free account at their site. Their service will also:
translate your feed from Atom to RSS or vice versa,
make a browser-friendly page that explains what web feeds are to the new user,
allow you to splice any link into your feed using some of the more popular social bookmarking services. FeedBurner also allows you to study your demographic by giving you statistics on how many request have been made for your feed contents, down to the item if you like.
Though I offer both the burned version of my feed and the original to my audience, they love the extra information my FeedBurned link provides them.
Social Bookmarking -Share More Info with Less Hassle

Social bookmarking allows you to create a bookmark online, and share those bookmarks via RSS.
Some services even allow you to share your collection of links, as you can do with the service from del.icio.us . Furl.net, newly acquired by LookSmart, also adds the capability of saving an old version of a page you have visited with the bookmark feature. And at Bloglines, you can get ezine subscriptions via feed by subscribing through a special address they give you.
All three of these services can be coupled with FeedBurner to splice external links - or other internal links from your own site - into the “burned” version of your feed.
Display links on your site for free with RSS Digest
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