Ronaldo (1)Moving Feedburner accounts to Google accounts
I have been ignoring Google’s previous messages about their plan to “retire” Feedburner after acquiring it last year.
But since they will discontinue the Feedburner service on February 28, 2009, there’s no other option but to transfer all of my Feedburner feeds to my Google accounts.
The transfer was supposed to be really easy, however, during the transfer process, an error prevented Google to transfer all my feeds (more than a dozen of them).
After 3 weeks since I encountered that glitch, finally all my feeds were now moved to my Google account and I have just updated all my WordPress theme templates and links (it was a pain since most of my themes were heavily customized). By the way, you need a Google Account to do so, but if you are already a Google user – blogspot, gmail, adsense, analytics – then there’s no need unless you want to have a separate Google account just for feeds management.
Why it is necessary to move your blog feeds to Google?
- If you are using Feedburner to redirect your feeds, all of your feeds will not be delivered to your readers after February 28, 2009. If they click on the feed links, they will get a 404 error or Page Not Found error.
- Google Adsense for Feeds works only on Google accounts – so if you want to make extra money out of your feeds, then you should transfer asap.
- Of course we just have to trust Google when it says feed management and delivery will be using their Technology – whatever that means, it should mean one thing – better than before.
How to transfer your Feedburner accounts to Google Accounts?
Pretty simple as I mentioned (and probably you won’t get the error I got a few weeks back).
- Log in to your Feedburner account (www.feedburner.com), and a welcome message pops up asking you to Move your feeds to Google.
- Follow the steps and you should be okay – just wait for the confirmation that all of your feeds were successfully transferred.
Once the transfer is complete, take note of the new link to your feed – usually http://feeds2.feedburner.com/YOURFEED. Also, the Feed Email Subscription form changed, you should update your blog templates or sidebar widgets so that new subscribers use the correct subscription links.
How to ensure that all of your blog’s feeds are “redirected” to the new Feedburner location?
If you want to be sure, you can download the Feedsmith plugin if you are blogging on a self-hosted WordPress. Once you entered your new Feed location, Feedsmith ensures all of your site’s feeds are redirected properly.
For Blogspot users, just go to your Blog Settings > Site Feed and type the new Feed uri.
If you love to do it manually – edit your .htaccess file and add the following code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
RewriteRule ^index\.xml$ http://feeds2.feedburner.com/YOURFEEDADDRESS [R,L]
So if you’re one of the few who have not made the move to Google accounts, better do it now! And oh, Google said that for a few days, analytics and subscriber counts will have to be adjusted – so from 186 subscribers, my Feed Dashboard now shows ZERO subscriber.
If you want to find out if the transfer really works before you try it yourself, why not subscribe to Bloggista.com via your favorite RSS Feed reader or via Email – if you have not done it yet! LOL.
i transferred my feed also to my google account after ignoring it for quite some itme, but still have to update my feed on my blog…
Time to update those links
do you agree that, it’s not applicable for an entertainment blog to offer e-mail subscriptions like feedburner. Kasi daw we always update posts?
Hmmmm, I will still offer one if I have a blog just like yours. Or perhaps, setup feeds for some categories. But I guess its even better to offer a subscription if you are updating it regularly so the readers can get the news in their inbox – maybe make it just a summary feed so they will still visit the site for the entire article.
Just some thoughts – perhaps others can provide a better insight.
I’ve moved my Feedburner using Google accounts long ago. During that time, the requests for moving feeds was still quite “manual” – I had to email the support crew to do that and wait for around two days for them to do it.
The reason why I did that: I want to have those Google Adsense inside those feeds!
The Adsense for feeds actually contributed some significant amount each day – amazing.
Nice to see you again Gem.
I have seen some similar post, but you have a simpler explanation. I just tried it and received their email confirmation.
However, my wp admin is 404 not found for 2 days. I still have to wait for my hosting service reaction. Right now, I can visit my homepage, but not other pages / post as well as my wp admin.
Thanks for sharing, as usual.
Hey Angel, how you doing? Good to see your wife is now alright. Been very busy with “normal” life lately I barely have time to post new updates and do some blog hopping.
Hope we can talk real soon.
Btw, you’re site seems to be working fine now. Glad to see your posts again.
so that explains why my feedburner is being ignored. i guess i have to take this steps!
Hehhehe, you better take some time out real soon to move and update your feeds link.
ok, noted.
will update this weekend. paranaque day pa naman so it’s a holiday this friday, and I will update my blogs.
ceblogger, brother paranaque ka lang ba? E kung ganun magkapitbahay lang tayo? Las Pinas ako sa kabila lang.
oo nga ambo, magkalapit lang ang dalawang cities na to.
Naku buti napost mo to Brother. I keep on ignoring that message kasi. Makapagtransfer na nga. Thanks sa info brother!
hehehe uu nga eh. Kala ko ok lang tapos biglang di na pala ma de deliver feeds natin from feedburner to subscribers.
Kakatamad ano, but we really need to do it – part of the ‘chores’ of blogging.
Yep I just transfered my feedburner accounts too. I didn’t realize I needed to update any code though, so thanks!
Better check and update those links!
Thanks for the visit Gini.
Whoah! Di ko alam to ah… Tagal ko na kasi di nag login sa feedburner account ko. Gush! Thanks for the info bro.
Napakamot tuloy ako ng ulo. Hehehe….
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I just recently moved my feedburner account to google account after being advised by Jehz. I noticed one day that my feedburner counter is going crazy. Sometime, the chicklet counter says zero feedreaders and the next day it would say 60 again. So there, the problem was fixed by moving to google accounts.
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