I had heard of FeedBurner for the longest time but never really took a minute to figure out what it was. I figured I had WordPress and it was creating feeds for me just fine. Well, FeedBurner not only gives you extra options on configuring and optimizing your feed, it also tracks your subscribers! So you can actually know how many people are reading your comic from your feed and where they are reading it from. FeedBurner recently officially acquired the popular WordPress plugin that redirects your feed to the FeedBurner URL you create.

First create an account and a feed at Feedburner, having it grab the feed from your site. Then get the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin here to redirect your feed to FeedBurnder. You still use and advertise your existing feed URL (http://yoursite.com/feed [if using permalinks like you should be]), the plugin just makes it redirect for you.

Here is a sample of some stats being displayed from a WordPress feed:

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