blog.brenelz.com — FeedBurner has recently been trying to move its feeds over to Google. This prompted other bloggers and me to finally get around to moving our feeds onto Google. What myself and others did not know was that Google FeedBurner had us bloggers losing 100?s if not 1000?s of subscribers overnight.
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ottoJan 23, 2009
Most of the sites I administer use FeedBurner, but all the feed links point back to the sites themselves. I just have them serve a 301 redirect to feedburner. This way, if there's ever an issue, I can simply switch off the redirect and serve the feeds myself, until the issue is resolved.
mattycozeJan 23, 2009
Subscribers? I'm lucky to get a glance from anyone on my blogs... who the hell is gonna subscribe to the bulls**t I write?
foomojiveJan 23, 2009
The biggest benefit of feedburner is that it turns any old RSS feed into a podcast feed in a snap. All you have to do is link to the video or audio file in the post and it will turn that into an RSS 2.0 enclosure aka podcast episode. Also if your RSS feed changes and you don't have control over the feed address it's not a problem. Just put the new address into feedburner. It still serves the same address to subscribers.There's a bunch of other stuff it does too, like feed stats and ads and stuff, but that's the most useful.
fanonJan 23, 2009
"Most of the sites I administer use FeedBurner, but all the feed links point back to the sites themselves. I just have them serve a 301 redirect to feedburner. This way, if there's ever an issue, I can simply switch off the redirect and serve the feeds myself, until the issue is resolved."That's the smart way to do it. Having your subscribers directly subscribe to the FeedBurner feed will only hurt you in the long run. Have them subscribe to a local address and redirect them. I'm glad I had the foresight to do that.
ottoJan 23, 2009
No, they generally don't serve the content, so for the case of podcasts or picture feeds and such, you won't get quite as much benefit. But most blogs serve mainly text and such.
jbg321Jan 24, 2009
...and we now know why they call it Feed*Burner*
godsdeadJan 24, 2009
I didnt have any subscribers anyway, haha so nothings lost!
eugenisFeb 4, 2009
I dislike Google. I like Yahoo!