How to redirect your WP Feed to Feedburner’s Feed

December 29, 2006 by korokmu · 5 Comments
Filed under: Blogging, Freebies, Tips 

Feedburner is an excellent feed service, which allows you to track your feed subscribers. After you have created your Feedburner's feed, you should redirect your original Wordpress readers to the Feedburner's feed, so that you can track the exact number of your feed subscribers. By the way, the Firefox users, who use Live Bookmark to read your feed, use the original Wordpress feed. Therefore, it is a must to redirect your feed.

There are two ways to redirect the feed. First is by using .htaccess.

PHP:
  1. # Redirect /feed/ to Feedburner (if not Feedburner bot)
  2. <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
  3. RewriteEngine on
  4. RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
  5. RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/YourFeedburnerFeed [R,L]
  6. </ifmodule>

Just copy the code above to your .htaccess file and you are done. But the problem is, this only redirects http://yourblog.com/feed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/YourFeedburnerFeed. Firefox Live Bookmarks do not read /feed, but /?feed=rss2. If you now how to edit .htaccess, you can do it. But I don't know.

The solution is the second way of redirecting the feed. It is more simple because what we need is only a Wordpress Plugin. You can get the plugin, WordPress FeedBurner Plugin v2.1, at ordered list.com. Moreover, it is also suitable for those who don't have access to .htaccess file. And the plugin is compatible with all version of Wordpress.

I've redirected my feed and I can see the number of subscribers is increasing, from 13 to 59. Cool! :)

Related links:
How-To: Use .htaccess to redirect your Blog Feed to your Feedburner Feed
How to Redirect Wordpress Feed Traffic to FeedBurner?
FeedBurner Plugin v2.1 Released

Comments

5 Responses to “How to redirect your WP Feed to Feedburner’s Feed”
  1. CypherHackz says:

    agreed. using this method, you can see the increase in subscribers.

  2. korokmu says:

    And you can show off after that. Haha

  3. CypherHackz says:

    have you read my post about, there is a guy that have thousands of readers with only pr0? check this out: PR 0 website with 2798, 0000 readers?

  4. korokmu says:

    I know that tricks. Haha

  5. DJYano says:

    Nice, but i don’t WP, do you know how to setup Adsense for Feeds. When ever i setup i don’t see any ads running in my feeds. Your help appreciated.

    Regards,

    DJYano

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