So, I finally am using FeedBurner to start tracking my RSS subscribers. Here’s what it looks like right… now. 🙂
Not too much so far, but I’m sure once it’s had a chance to meet my subscriber’s feedreeders it will perk up some. Errr, well, we’ll see. 🙂
I have to say, I like having this feedburner url though:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Gabriel
w00t.
Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2005/11/01/feed-burning-finally/
2 responses to “Feed burning (finally)”
You may want to use a redirect and a more generic URL – a redirect to redirect your current RSS traffic to the new feedburner address, and a new URL to give out to readers.
I use: http://www.url.com/subscribe and redirect that URL to my feedburner feed. This makes it easy to stop using feedburner if necessary and move readers back to the original feed (or if a better “feedburner” turns up).
You will also need to change your link type=”RSS” in your header for browsers like firefox to pick up the new feed.
Jeremy,
For the feeds I’m offering, I am actually doing a redirect (using the excellent WordPress Feedburner plugin by Ordered List (http://orderedlist.com/articles/wordpress-feedburner-plugin/) which handles setting up the redirection, creating a new, internal random feed url for Feedburner to use.
The regular URL that people should be subscribing to is still https://www.gabrielserafini.com/feed/. Does the RSS feed button not currently show up in Firefox for you? I’m seeing it in mine.
Thanks for the feedback! 🙂