Switched to Feedburner

12Mar/077

Switched to Feedburner

I switched my feed over to Feedburner. I’m curious to see what kids of stats and information they can provide. I’ve never had a problem with bandwidth, gzip compression rocks, but seeing how a company can analyze feed subscribers sounds interesting. If you know who is subscribing to your feed, you can track how they subscribe and map that (possibly) to what content they were reading when they decided to subscribe. Giving you some insight into your readership and some context to their interests.

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http://haacked.com Haacked

Dude, your skin is sweet! I need to comb over the WP skins and see which ones are licensed compatibly with Subtext that I can “steal”.

P.S. Subtext makes it trivially easy to enable Feedburner too.
http://www.douglaskarr.com/ douglaskarr

You’re not quite switched yet! Be sure to modify your RSS link in your header file. Replace http://www.lazycoder.com/weblog/index.php/feed/ with your Feedburner link.

Cheers!
http://www.douglaskarr.com/ douglaskarr

Not sure if this got to you… you’re not switched over yet. You need to change your header link from http://www.lazycoder.com/weblog/index.php/feed/ to your Feedburner link. Most folks simply utilize the detected RSS link from the header through their browser to subscribe.

Regards,
Doug
http://www.nomorestars.com/ Tom Boucher

Does the feed URL change? Safari RSS tag goes to a lazycoder.com link.
http://www.lazycoder.com Scott

…and we’re switched back to the default theme? Weird. The only thing I did was post from MarsEdit? I wonder if there’s a bug in MarsEdit or the XML-RPC interface to WordPress.

Anyway, Yeah Doug. They were stuck in moderation for some reason? Weird. When I click on the link in the header it takes me to the FeedBurner provided feed, so it looks like the WordPress plugin I’m using is providing the redirection at the blog level. Which is nice.
http://douglaskarr.com Doug Karr

That is pretty cool – I didn’t realize they had a plugin that did the redirect like that. I wonder if it affects any of the services that scrape your site header for RSS feeds.
http://www.lazycoder.com Scott

Doug,

if they do, they’ll pick up the URL provided by the blog. Which is being redirected to the FeedBurner feed. The nice thing about that is if I ever do drop FeedBurner, the scrapers will still be pointing to my default feed URL instead of the FeedBurner one.