Confessions of a Six Figure Professional Blogger

Moving Your Feedburner Feeds to Google

January 26, 2009 | Feature, Webmaster Crap

Feedburner was bought by Google some time ago, yet nothing changed. Well, they’re forcing the issue now and they are now officially requiring all Feedburner users to migrate their feeds over to Google. The good thing is that they’ve made the process pretty automatic and painless. The bad thing (and I have yet to see it, but am bracing for it) is that it might make my RSS stats drop off the face of the earth. We shall see.

In any event, I went through it and documented it:

  1. Log into your Feedburner account.
  2. Press the link to move your account now. It is at the top and in a little yellow, highlighted box.
  3. Confirm which Google account to move them, too. If you are not already logged into Google, you will do so. If you don’t have a Google account, you will need to create one.
  4. You’ll then get a confirmation screen which lists all your RSS feeds and confirm your Google account. Hit “Move Feeds” to start the process.
  5. You’ll get a little animated progress indicator as it does it’s thing. Just wait for it.
  6. You’ll get a “Success!” message when it is done. It will also show you this message…

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When I click the link to see my account, sure enough I am sitting on feedburner.google.com. You will also get a confirmation email which lists all your feeds. Now, all your feeds are using feeds2.feedburner.com. If what they say is correct, though, I shouldn’t have to update anything. I will probably go ahead and start modifying my blogs to use the new address, though. I don’t always want to be dependent on their re-direct.

It does not appear yet as if Feedburner is integrated visually with the other Google services. I’m hoping that they will do that so that I can just click into my feeds rather than having to separately visit the new feedburner address.

Let’s hope Google doesn’t mess up a good thing! Please, not another Jaiku!

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  • It just happened to me also. Without notification they stopped my RSS feed. Thats so bad and it seems so unprofessional.
  • I've had it with Feedburner lately: They stopped my RSS feed without notifying me whatsoever for the third time recently. I closed my account but somehow got my feed caught in a 30-day redirect loop while doing so. I have about 27 days left until it lets it go again. I tried contacting Feedburner about it, but found their UI so user-unfriendly and confusing that I gave up in the end.

    I now have to write my own feed manually having rigged up a temporary job and connected it almost everywhere in place of my usual feed. I feel like I've been hijacked. - Although it does give me good practice at writing xml. :-)
  • Thanks for the heads up David. I too am going to manually change the URI to be safe.
  • Ah man. Why can't they leave it over at Feedburner?
  • I just made the move last week, too. That's a good idea about updating all your feed link addresses. I'd always just kept them what they were, and let Feedburner and the WP plugin take care of the rest.
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