Comments on: Why Redirecting Your Feed Isn’t Such A Great Idea http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/30/why-redirecting-your-feed-isnt-such-a-great-idea/ Living in a state of accord. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:41:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: mitch's meanderings http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/30/why-redirecting-your-feed-isnt-such-a-great-idea/#comment-14794 mitch's meanderings Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:00:44 +0000 http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/30/why-redirecting-your-feed-isnt-such-a-great-idea/#comment-14794 <strong>Redirecting WordPress Feeds to FeedBurner</strong> If you want to simplify delivery, management, and analysis of your site’s feeds, FeedBurner is a great solution. This page will give you a quick summary of what FeedBurner is about. One of my favorite features (complete list of features) is Smar... Redirecting WordPress Feeds to FeedBurner

If you want to simplify delivery, management, and analysis of your site’s feeds, FeedBurner is a great solution. This page will give you a quick summary of what FeedBurner is about. One of my favorite features (complete list of features) is Smar…

]]> By: Adrian Sutton http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/30/why-redirecting-your-feed-isnt-such-a-great-idea/#comment-8002 Adrian Sutton Sat, 01 Oct 2005 21:30:56 +0000 http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/30/why-redirecting-your-feed-isnt-such-a-great-idea/#comment-8002 Ah, but they wouldn't have the feedburner URL unless they or their client understood redirect responses. The way you manage this is that when you switch to feedburner you use a temporary redirect on your current feed URL to feedburner. Most of your readers will do the right thing and keep using the original address and get redirected to FeedBurner each time. Some of the broken readers will treat it as a permanent redirect and remember the FeedBurner URL. Those readers however will understand the redirect from FeedBurner back to the original URL and be switched back. You still need to plan and it's not a silver bullet but it is a pretty effective process. Ah, but they wouldn’t have the feedburner URL unless they or their client understood redirect responses. The way you manage this is that when you switch to feedburner you use a temporary redirect on your current feed URL to feedburner. Most of your readers will do the right thing and keep using the original address and get redirected to FeedBurner each time. Some of the broken readers will treat it as a permanent redirect and remember the FeedBurner URL. Those readers however will understand the redirect from FeedBurner back to the original URL and be switched back.

You still need to plan and it’s not a silver bullet but it is a pretty effective process.

]]> By: Q Lu http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/30/why-redirecting-your-feed-isnt-such-a-great-idea/#comment-7992 Q Lu Sat, 01 Oct 2005 12:22:55 +0000 http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/30/why-redirecting-your-feed-isnt-such-a-great-idea/#comment-7992 From your page, ... >>After 30 days, your feed is permanently removed and any requests will receive a "Feed Not Found" response. I suspect that a substantial portion of the subscribers will be lost after they start getting a "feed not found" message. They won't really understand what is happening (because they barely understand feeds) and won't bother to add the new address to their readers. From your page, …

>>After 30 days, your feed is permanently removed and any requests will receive a “Feed Not Found” response.

I suspect that a substantial portion of the subscribers will be lost after they start getting a “feed not found” message. They won’t really understand what is happening (because they barely understand feeds) and won’t bother to add the new address to their readers.

]]> By: Rick Klau http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/30/why-redirecting-your-feed-isnt-such-a-great-idea/#comment-7971 Rick Klau Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:42:48 +0000 http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/30/why-redirecting-your-feed-isnt-such-a-great-idea/#comment-7971 Hi - One thing to keep in mind, is that we don't lock you in. If you ever decide to shut down your FeedBurner feed, you have the option of us redirecting your feed back to the source feed. That ensures that your subscribes will always get the feed from wherever you want them to. Details here: http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/001251.html. Hope this helps! --Rick ---- Rick Klau VP, Business Development FeedBurner - http://www.feedburner.com rickk@feedburner.com AIM/Y!/Skype: RickKlau office: 312.756.0022 x2012 direct: 312.239-0727 cell: 630.362.8911 Hi - One thing to keep in mind, is that we don’t lock you in. If you ever decide to shut down your FeedBurner feed, you have the option of us redirecting your feed back to the source feed. That ensures that your subscribes will always get the feed from wherever you want them to. Details here: http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/001251.html. Hope this helps!

–Rick

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Rick Klau
VP, Business Development
FeedBurner - http://www.feedburner.com
rickk@feedburner.com
AIM/Y!/Skype: RickKlau
office: 312.756.0022 x2012
direct: 312.239-0727
cell: 630.362.8911

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