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Redirecting feeds in Feedburner
I don't want to lose all the RSS feed (or webfeed) subscribers I've built up over the years, so I asked Rick Klau of Feedburner whether I could redirect the feeds from NewMediaMusings.com to SocialMedia.biz. Yes, he said, and walked me through it. (This is one of the reasons I'm a huge fan of Feedburner.) Here are the steps:
Step 1: Go to your My Feeds page. Select the name of your old feed that you want to redirect, and click 'edit feed details.'
Step 2: In the field called 'original feed,' type in (or copy) your new feed (mine is: 'http://feeds.feedburner.com
Step 3: Click 'delete feed' (right next to 'edit feed details'). Don't be nervous — check the box labeled 'use 30 day redirection'. Click the button that says 'delete this feed now.'
You'll be done. In my case, this sends all requests for
feeds.feedburner.com/newmediam
feeds.feedburner.com/typepad
Hope this works for my 12,186 subscribers at NewMediaMusings. If not, you can manually add my new feed.
Cross-posted to SocialMedia.biz.
December 22, 2006 at 01:16 PM | Permalink
Comments
Quick question,
you mentioned the checkbox for a 30 day redirect. What happens after 30 days? Many online feed readers (google reader, bloglines, etc.) may in fact permanently change to the new location, but I doubt that the standalone reader programs will. So if the 30 days runs out, does the old feed just get deleted and stop sending subscribers to the new feed location, or is it an indefinite thing?
I notice that you wrote the article on Dec 22, and it's been more than 30 days. Looks like the feed is still being redirected. Is that right?
Nathan
http://www.nathanrice.org/
Posted by: Nathan at Jan 31, 2007 8:36:39 AM
Feedburner stopped its redirect after 30 days -- and a number of subscribers could no longer find my feed. (They suggested that I keep reminding my readers of the new feed url.)
So, they made an exception and extended my redirect indefinitely.
Posted by: JD at Jan 31, 2007 11:33:00 PM







