Ever since Google acquired FeedBurner the functionality has become nothing short of badass. There are a couple features that I really love and should not be forgotten about if you own a blog. Inside FeedBurner under the Optimize section there’s a tab on the left-hand nav for Feed Flare. Here you can enable emailing of your post, emailing the author, insert a link to Technorati search results, display the number of comments your post has received, insert a feed subscription link, a sphere link, insert a add to del.icio.us link, indicate how many times people have saved your post via del.icio.us, submit to Digg, submit to Facebook, geotag in Outside.in (great site btw), discuss on Newsvine, and submit to StumbleUpon. Whew! As you can see, enabling these features will help your feed subscribers help you by making it damn easy for them to spread the word.

Also, not everyone (silver surfers) are up-to-date with the whole RSS thing and still do everything via email. Feedburner can allow your visitors to subscribe via email. You can specify when they get your emails, what the subject or title says, and even brand them by inserting your own logo. This is quite a fantastic service that’s easy to implement all while saving time and money by circumventing older email campaigning services.

Don’t forget to activate these great (not to mention free) services. Your blog will love you for it!