Playing with FeedBurner
Hi everyone, I’ve been playing around with FeedBurner. Sorry if it’s messing anything up in your aggregator. At Adam’s suggestion, I started poking around with FeedBurner and I’m finding that it’s pretty cool. Here are some things that I love about FeedBurner:
- Feed stats! FeedBurner has a good set of stats that they provide for free and even more stats that you can get with a “Pro” account.
- Feed translation - they’ll take your feed and translate it to all different versions of Atom and RSS.
- Easy portability. All the subscribers on my FeedBurner feed will always get my blog feed no matter where it is. I can just change the URL behind my FeedBurner feed and my subscribers will be able to continue receiving my posts.
- Google AdSense ads! Apparently, FeedBurner is able to inject AdSense into your feed. Let’s see how well it works :)
The major problem is that it’s difficult to set up redirects from existing feed URLs to the new FeedBurner URL. There’s some help out there, but I might have to mess with it a little bit to get it right. Ah, I wish FeedBurner would make a WordPress plug-in that would make it easy :)
Oh, my new FeedBurner feed is at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/plaxoed
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August 7th, 2005 at 2:17 pm
I’m not sure how to inject this into the wordpress stuff, but here’s a PHP script that will permanantly redirect to feedburner.
August 7th, 2005 at 2:19 pm
or… there would have been, if wordpress didn’t strip out the php script :(
<?php
if (!headers_sent()) {
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://feeds.feedburner.com/plaxoed“);
}
?>
August 7th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
Oooo thanks Spyder! Will this totally mess with aggreagtors though? Do most popular aggreagtors handle 301s correctly?
August 7th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
Glad it’s working out for you :). It’ll be interesting to see if you find the stats surprising or revealing (”Wow, I didn’t know people were clicking on THAT item so much…”)
August 8th, 2005 at 2:22 am
Mark,
there is a WordPress Feedburner plugin available at http://www.orderedlist.com/articles/wordpress_feedburner_plugin/ which does the redirection for you - no-one needs to update their feeds and you still get the stats!
Tom