Moved FeedBurner Feeds

Posted on Jan 19, 2009 in blog, blogging

Well, I finally got around to moving my FeedBurner account to my Google account.  Not sure if I did something wrong, or if I just need to wait a few days.  It seems that I can’t see any items in my feed now, as I monitor it in Google Reader.

Has anyone else done this and found the same issue? I know I’ve probably missed something somewhere.  I’ve got the “MyBrand” personal domain settings enabled, and updated the DNS CNAME records for my domain last night as directly by the MyBrand settings page on FeedBurner.

So far, it’s no go, but I wonder if the CNAME is pointing to the right URL.  In the email I got after the FeedBurner –> Google migration was done, it showed a different URL for the feed.  Namely, http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Rickmahncom – which is different than the rickmahn.feedproxy.ghs.google.com that is listed on the MyBrand page.

Suggestions welcome, but I’ll probably be testing different settings this evening.  Sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause.

12 Comments

  1. MN Headhunter | Paul DeBettign January 19, 2009

    This is one of those times when I wait for others to go first. Please post again as you go through this and find victory so knuckleheads like me do not do something really silly.

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  2. MN Headhunter | Paul DeBettignies January 19, 2009

    This is one of those times when I wait for others to go first. Please post again as you go through this and find victory so knuckleheads like me do not do something really silly.

    MN Headhunter | Paul DeBettignies´s last blog post..Paul DeBettignies To Speak On Job Search And Networking Topics At Minneapolis StarTribune Career Fair

  3. Rick Mahn January 19, 2009

    Hi Paul,
    I’ll do that. I’m sure it’s a setting or URL that I’ve got wrong. I’ll get it straight – I’ll share what I know when I do.

  4. Rick Mahn January 19, 2009

    Hi Paul,
    I’ll do that. I’m sure it’s a setting or URL that I’ve got wrong. I’ll get it straight – I’ll share what I know when I do.

  5. Jem January 19, 2009

    Has the amount of readers dropped for you? I moved yesterday and I’ve dropped around 300 readers. I’m just searching around for answers, and had no luck yet. It’s so frustrating :(

  6. Jem January 19, 2009

    Has the amount of readers dropped for you? I moved yesterday and I’ve dropped around 300 readers. I’m just searching around for answers, and had no luck yet. It’s so frustrating :(

  7. Rick Mahn January 19, 2009

    Jem,
    Yeah, I’ve lost about 320-350 readers according to the counter (and the FeedBurner stats page). They do mention in the migration process that the numbers will drop for a day or two while all the servers involved migrate over to the new URL and such.

    I’m hoping things will be back to normal by Wednesday for me. I do notice that my old feed that I had in Google Reader is indeed picking up new posts, so current users shouldn’t have an issue at all.

    I hope you have success in the migration as well.

  8. Rick Mahn January 19, 2009

    Jem,
    Yeah, I’ve lost about 320-350 readers according to the counter (and the FeedBurner stats page). They do mention in the migration process that the numbers will drop for a day or two while all the servers involved migrate over to the new URL and such.

    I’m hoping things will be back to normal by Wednesday for me. I do notice that my old feed that I had in Google Reader is indeed picking up new posts, so current users shouldn’t have an issue at all.

    I hope you have success in the migration as well.

  9. Mikael January 20, 2009

    I’ve read about others having issues with the transfer but mine went smoothly. The only thing I’ve seen is that the number of subscribers have dropped significantly but I hope they’ll fix that problem soon. I heard about people going from 50k subscribers to 6k.

    Mikael´s last blog post..Quick Care Pet Insurance Secrets Revealed

  10. Mikael January 20, 2009

    I’ve read about others having issues with the transfer but mine went smoothly. The only thing I’ve seen is that the number of subscribers have dropped significantly but I hope they’ll fix that problem soon. I heard about people going from 50k subscribers to 6k.

    Mikael´s last blog post..Quick Care Pet Insurance Secrets Revealed

  11. Rick Mahn January 20, 2009

    Yeah, the count drop is quite large – and disappointing. Was the older, higher number correct, or the new, lower number? How can I tell?

    My current concern is that the MyBrand feeds aren’t re-directing. Meaning that if someone clicked on any of the RSS feed links at the top of the sidebar, they’ll get a 404 error message. That’s my top priority – to figure out what’s wrong with the links.

    Cheers!

  12. Rick Mahn January 20, 2009

    Yeah, the count drop is quite large – and disappointing. Was the older, higher number correct, or the new, lower number? How can I tell?

    My current concern is that the MyBrand feeds aren’t re-directing. Meaning that if someone clicked on any of the RSS feed links at the top of the sidebar, they’ll get a 404 error message. That’s my top priority – to figure out what’s wrong with the links.

    Cheers!