Connecting Typepad to Feedburner

CONNECTING A TYPEPAD blog to Feedburner takes less than 20 seconds if you're signed into your Typepad blog. Go to the blog you want to connect, edit your blog's configuration, click the radio button to indicate you want to connect your feed through Feedburner, log into your Feedburner account, select the blog feed you want to redirect through Feedburner and you're done. This set-up changes nothing for existing feed readers--Feedburner merely tracks their downloads on the Typepad server. This is a clever Typepad service. It tells you more than you think you need to know. It suggests content for podcasts. It can track downloads of enclosures. In general, I like Typepad more than the Wordpress installation I use on other sites because Six Apart's servers are more robust than the community servers I use elsewhere. Six Apart's spam controls are much stronger than anything else I've used or seen used in Irish blogspace.

But when gathering feed data, who do you believe? Should I trust Bloglines whose summary says this blog syndicates to more than 100 readers? Or is Feedburner correct in saying no more than 25 subscribe to this blog's feed? No worries. It's fun enough to scroll through statistics and Feedburner does stats well.

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