Yesterday I decided to follow Google's advice and move my feed from Feedburner to Google (which owns Feedburner now). I followed the directions, which assured me that there would no problem with the change.
Nonetheless, this morning I saw some discussion on Twitter about Google ignoring complaints about problems associated with this transition process. I clicked over to the Feedburner Help Group, which is full of complaints about blogs losing readers during the transition. I checked my subscribers, and half are gone this morning.
I have neither the time nor the technical expertise to figure out what's going on (apparently Google doesn't either), so all I can do is apologize if you're a reader who's suddenly lost my feed... but then again you're probably not reading this.
I read this first in Google Reader. But then I don't have the time or technical interest in checking posting time and time zones...
Posted by: Richard Bailey | January 21, 2009 at 09:32 AM
Wow, you're one of the lucky readers who gets to stay subscribed to Teaching PR. For this you win.... my appreciation. :-)
Posted by: Karen Russell | January 21, 2009 at 11:15 AM
Karen - I did the same thing yesterday and ran into the same exact problem. Lost quite a few readers, although not half of them. Haven't seen any great solutions either. Just hoping people will resubscribe.
Posted by: corinnew | January 21, 2009 at 02:19 PM
Corinne, just checked and I'm still getting your feed. Bummer, though.
Posted by: Karen Russell | January 21, 2009 at 05:38 PM
If you were using MyBrand with Feedburner, there is a decent chance your feed is screwed up. If not, you probably haven't lost subscribers - the stats are not reporting correctly. Everybody doing this is in the same boat and its a really big boat. You can test your old feed by getting the URL for it from your reader. It will be something like this: http://feeds.feedburner.com/"yourblog" Enter that into your browser and if you are asked to subscribe (again) you know your old feed is working OK. If you get a 404 or server not found error, then you might be able to get help here:
http://groups.google.com/group/feedburner/web/known-issues-workarounds
Good luck!
Posted by: marc farley | January 22, 2009 at 09:37 PM
Marc, I checked as you suggested and my old feed was still there. But, in the meantime, my subscribers reappeared. But, thanks for your help!
Posted by: Karen Russell | January 29, 2009 at 01:15 PM