While at SES in Chicago, I got to hear Rick Klau of Feedburner talk a few times. While listening to him, I realized that Feedburner's services are well worth the free account; not to mention the paid account.
Not only that, but you can put in your Amazon ID to ensure your Amazon links make you money, you can also tie your Flickr images into your feed, get click through counts, see how many subscribers you have, see how people are using your feed and that's just a few features of the free account.
The Feedburner reader stats are one of the main reasons I've used Feedburner in the past. Unfortunately Wordpress doesn't have that kind of information yet. (Unless you have a Wordpress.com account.) I've been a little wary of running all my feed traffic though Feedburner in the past and it turns out I was worried for nothing.
Feedburner makes sure that the end site gets all the credit it deserves. It 301 redirects any links in a feed if you have tracking turned on and it encourages you to 302 your existing feed to your Feedburner feed instead of promoting your Feedburner feed. Also, if you ever decided to stop using Feedburner services, they will 301 redirect any traffic back to you so that you don't loose any readers. I have to say, I was quite impressed to hear how much search engine friendly stuff Feedburner already does. No wonder why they burn 500,000 feeds.
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