Mike Sansome has written up a great post on how to setup RSS Autodiscovery with FeedBurner.
If you’re using FeedBurner to track your feeds, are you sure that’s how readers are subscribing? Look again. Even Seth Godin may have some tweaks to make.
Before writing on FeedDemon 2.0, I decided to delete all feeds and start from scratch (I’ll explain why when I post about FeedDemon). I noticed an interesting trend that you may want to check before IE 7.0 fully launches. An auto-discovery doesn’t pick up FeedBurner feeds unless you make some simple changes.
The main problem is that a lot of people don’t realize that you need to make a few simple template updates in the head section of your blog. Without this then not many people will use your Feedburner feed and your stats will be way off.
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February 23, 2006 at 11:50 am
The other problem is that some blogging tools don’t let you make these changes. People on low-end TypePad accounts can’t. I don’t think WordPress.com users can either.
February 23, 2006 at 12:09 pm
True… WordPress users def can’t do this.
My advice would be for Feedburner to actually pay someone to write a WordPress plugin and have Matt wrap it into wordpress.com
February 23, 2006 at 2:48 pm
Another thing to note: if you have access to your .htaccess file you can set up a temporary redirect (example below) that points your source feed to your FeedBurner feed. This way you can ensure that all of your subscribers are being captured in your FeedBurner stats.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
RewriteRule ^index\.xml$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/feedURLatFeedBurner [R,L]
February 23, 2006 at 2:49 pm
Good idea Eric. Not sure why I didn’t think of that one….
Kevin
February 23, 2006 at 9:57 pm
Great tip Eric. That will help corral pervious subscribers. I”ll try that this weekend. Sounds like a safer bet than what I was going to stab at.
Thanks for the nod, Kevin