Subscribe Sure, I had set up basic feed redirection. I had set it so that the feed/ and feed/atom/ WordPress feed URLs would redirect to my FeedBurner feed.
But when I saw that the Best of the Web blog directory had listed my RSS feed as being http://www.johnlamansky.com/?feed=rss2, I knew I had to implement more extensive redirection.
I had heard of this “WordPress Feedburner Plugin” before, and decided to give it a try. After a little bit of trouble at first, I got it to work and - lo and behold! - the next day my Feedburner subscriber count had almost - not quite, but almost - doubled.
It just goes to show how important it is to make sure all of your feed traffic is directed to the right place.
I would highly recommend the aforementioned plugin to WordPress bloggers who are using Feedburner; and if you haven’t already, be sure to check out Feedburner’s feed redirection tips.
Jeremy responded on 23 Jul 2006 at 6:48 pm #
In addition to redirecting the feed, semantically you should be doing a 301 redirect.
I modified this plugin mainly to work with WordPress 2.1 alpha but also I updated it to perform 301 redirects. Even though I made it compatible with WordPress 2.1 it’ll run on WP 2.0.
I changed the
add_feedburner_redirect()function so that in the$new_rulesvariables whenever there was a[R,L]I changed it to a[R=301,L]. This has the effect of doing a 301 redirect. After that, I regenerated the Permalink rules to make the changes take effect.If you don’t want to modify your
ol_feedburner.phpfile you can always modify the .htaccess by hand. Just change all occurences of[R,L]to[R=301,L]I know all that sounds really complicated but it was as simple as a search-and-replace.
Jeremy responded on 25 Jul 2006 at 9:28 pm #
I see you’ve tried that out!
John Lamansky responded on 26 Jul 2006 at 7:57 am #
Yes I have, thanks to your excellent instructions