Feedburner is a really popular service used to track information about your RSS feeds.

This article explains how you can get feed burner working with your existing CMS using Apache and htaccess.

I use 302(temporary) redirects for my feeds in case I ever want to move away from my Feedburner service. A 302 temporary redirect will tell search engines to keep checking the original URL.

Joomla

Replace nickyeoman with your assigned name.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Redirect RSS readers to Feedburner
# Allow access to FeedBurner Bot
# For Joomla CMS
# v1.0
# Last Updated: May 31, 2009

#For Front Page
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^format=feed&type=rss$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://feeds2.feedburner.com/nickyeoman [R=302,L]

#For sub categories
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^format=feed&type=rss$
RewriteRule ^joomla$ http://feeds2.feedburner.com/nickyeoman/cat [R=302,L]

Make sure you don't duplicate the RewriteEngine or RewriteBase lines. Don't blindly follow what I'm telling you, if you have a question free free to contact me.

Wordpress

Replace nickyeoman with your assigned name.

As with everything else in WordPress you can find a plugin to redirect to feedburner. 

# Redirect RSS readers to Feedburner
# Allow access to FeedBurner Bot
# For Wordpress CMS
# v1.0
# Last Updated: May 31, 2009

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
RewriteRule ^category/cat_name/feed/ http://feeds2.feedburner.com/nickyeoman/cat [R=302,L]

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