Comments on: Link To Your Site Then Redirect

By: Feedburner bagunÃ§ando caracteres especiais em UTF-8 | Bruno Torres ponto net

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:12:29 +0000

[...] Entrei em contato com os caras. Vamos ver quanto tempo demoram pra resolver o problema. AtÃ© hoje, tudo era lindo. Espero que essa feiura seja passageira. Mas, caso nÃ£o seja, pelo menos o controle do meu feed estÃ¡ nas minhas mÃ£os e eu faÃ§o com ele o que eu quiser. Lembre-se: nÃ£o entregue o controle do seu feed para ninguÃ©m. Nenhum serviÃ§o de terceiros pode cuidar dele melhor que vocÃª. [...]

By: Dat Nguyen

Dat Nguyen — Sun, 21 May 2006 20:57:57 +0000

Thanks Scott for mentioning the Feedburner redirects and James for finding it–it is the most hidden option ever! I’ve been redirecting feeds from my domain for a while and this solution takes care of most of the problems.

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Benefits of Removing ‘www’ From Your URL » Wisdump — Sun, 21 May 2006 15:52:55 +0000

[...] If you missed it make sure to checkout yesterday’s discussion on redirects and third party services. [...]

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Sun, 21 May 2006 06:42:43 +0000

You got me there James ;-)

By: James Archer

James Archer — Sun, 21 May 2006 03:01:59 +0000

Nevermind, just found it! It’s located under Optimize > Browser Friendly > User your redirected feed… (a tiny link down at the bottom).

I think I should be squared away. What up now, Scrivs?

By: James Archer

James Archer — Sun, 21 May 2006 02:58:21 +0000

Scott, where in the world is that FeedBurner setting? I’ve been looking all over and can’t find it? I’ve already got the site set up to do the redirection and stuff, but it’s that missing piece of changing the URL within FeedBurner that I can’t find.

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Sun, 21 May 2006 02:33:50 +0000

Yes, Steve is a super genius and that’s the plugin I used for this site although the canonical feed didn’t workout so I simply went straight to the WP RSS feed.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 21 May 2006 02:17:58 +0000

One another thing – there is a Wordpress plugin (by 9rules member Steve Smith) that can handle most of this for you:

http://orderedlist.com/articles/wordpress-feedburner-plugin/

You will still need to change your Feedburner Subscribe Now! settings to point to your canonical feed url yourself though. See the TechJapan feed page for an example of this:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/techjapan

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 21 May 2006 02:02:14 +0000

James,

You need to alter your Feedburner settings so the Subscribe Now! links at your Feedburner page point to
http://www.fortymedia.com/index.xml. That way you’ll stop most people from subscribing to the Feedburner feed url.

BTW, you’ve been able to keep your original feed URL while using Feedburner since at least October 2004:

http://forums.feedburner.com/viewtopic.php?t=3

By: viperteq

viperteq — Sat, 20 May 2006 23:15:53 +0000

I’m really glad that you wrote this today. I tried using FeedBurner a few months back because I wanted to track and display the number of people that were subscribing to my feed. In the end, I opted on not using them because NetNewsWire couldn’t find the FeedBurner feed properly…..and this was when i was testing the link myself, so I’m quite sure that other people had a hard time finding it during the short time that I used FB.

The .htaccess idea sounds great, but i it’s like James says, that some will find the WP feed and some will still go thru FB, then I’ll have to think of something else. Doesn’t Mint tracks a blogs feeds and it’s subscribers? I haven’t purchased it yet, so I’m not sure…