FeedBurner Stats Have Recovered
Well I fixed my RSS feed problem. For those of you who subscribe to my RSS feed or read my article last week called FeedBurner Problems - My Own Fault then you know I did something bad.
Basically, I had set up an auto-redirect on the RSS feed file on my website to point the FeedBurner one. The problem was that I was redirecting the file that FeedBurner needed to access, so they were unable to get to it.
Why Was I Redirecting?
Okay, here is the reason why I did it. When you create your own RSS feed, it means you have a file on your website that surfer's can access with a RSS reader. I had the file rss.xml.
I switched to FeedBurner a long time ago because I wanted some of the advantages they offer. They provide readership stats for the feed (unique ip addresses that access the feed everyday) and can provide your RSS feed with advertising eventually if you get enough readership.
So you need to provide FeedBurner with a way to read your site's RSS feed so they can republish it, but you also want to migrate your current readers over to them without disrupting their feed.
So how do you do this? You create a new rss feed file on your server (I won't say what mine is) and give that to FeedBurner. Then you change your .htaccess file (if you are on a Linux server) to redirect people accessing the old file (rss.xml) to the FeedBurner one.
Now nobody can use the file on your server (and thus be untracked) and your current readers are using FeedBurner's republished feed. A nice easy transition.
I unfortunately got a big trigger happy and decided to redirect the feed the FeedBurner was trying to access.
Anyhow, it is all fixed now. If you want to read about how to redirect your RSS feed to the FeedBurner site then check out my article Redirect Your RSS Feed To Use FeedBurner.
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