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Feedburner Is Getting a Makeover, But What About Features?

Lee Odden
Lee Odden
Blogging Strategy

New FeedBurner

The FeedBurner re-design has been in beta testing for a few months now, but does it make the service better?

I’m a big fan of FeedBurner and I really like the new look and feel as its much cleaner and matches other Google products, however since it’s so familiar, it feels a little lacking.

At this time there is no way to select a date range other than the pre-defined time periods that are offered, there is no way to export data, and there is no way to tie data points together; such as referring URLs to posts.

What I’d really like to see is FeedBurner integrate this information into Google Analytics. The two services are very similar in what they do, and how they look, that it feels like they should live together. Hopefully then FeedBurner could utilize some of the great features in Google Analytics to make this data more robust.

Other than the new design, the only other new item is the fact that it does real-time analytics. This lets you use what impact your new post has on the web moments after you publish it.

Now if you really have time to sit down and watch your analytics in real-time, good for you. But I doubt many will see this as a usable feature.

Instead, I’d like to see FeedBurner give users more customization and social interaction.

Integration into Twitter is great, but what about Facebook? Are there other destinations that could benefit from updates? What about seeing status updates that include our FeedBurner URL so we can really see how it’s being syndicated?

What about some additional feed customization? The basic ‘clean’ template is ancient in terms of internet age and it’d be nice to see even basic customization like Twitter offers.

How about the ability to share a FeedBurner account with multiple Google accounts? Much like Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools, sometimes more than one person wants to analyze the data.

How about some nice charts and data points like Feed Analysis offers? These charts are well received by those that don’t get the data.

It just seems to me that FeedBurner has just maintained its presence since it was acquired by Google in 2007. Little changes have been happening over the years, but it still feels like it’s not living up to its potential.

Maybe it’s the lack of competition, or maybe the FeedBurner teams feels it doesn’t need to be any more than it already is, however I’d like to see FeedBurner step up its game and become much more valuable to marketers and site owners.

About Lee Odden

@LeeOdden is the CEO of TopRank Marketing and editor of TopRank's B2B Marketing Blog. Cited for his expertise by The Economist, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, he's the author of the book Optimize and presents internationally on B2B marketing topics including content, search, social media and influencer marketing. When not at conferences, consulting, or working with his talented team, he's likely running, traveling or cooking up something new.

Comments

  1. Mitch says

    December 28, 2010 at 10:41 pm

    I hadn’t thought about that before, but it would make sense to integrate Feedburner and Analytics in some fashion. After all, Adsense integrates with Analytics in some fashion, so it would make sense.

    Of course, sometimes we still wonder why Feedburner’s subscription numbers fluctuate so much, but I’m working on not worrying about it all that much these days.

  2. Dean Saliba says

    January 8, 2011 at 7:23 am

    I’d like the ability to be able to use other advertising networks, not just Adsense. 🙂

  3. Ajith Edassery says

    January 13, 2011 at 2:04 am

    It’s amazing how feedburner is still relevant despite having the possibility to syndicate blog content directly, via social media or microblogs. However, Google hasn’t done enough to it in order to convert this beautiful product into something that makes a lot of money for them. I mean, ideally they could use it as a subscription based list building engine and wipe out competition right?

  4. Lee Odden says

    January 28, 2011 at 8:33 am

    Customization would indeed be a big leap forward for Feedburner

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