Forum Feed Migration Done

[dannysullivan]

If you're getting this message via our forum feed, then the forum feed migration to FeedBurner I mentioned yesterday (http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=7489) is working for you. More details on the move on the blog here: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050825-141642. If you haven't gotten any new threads recently via the feed, post a note here, and we'll look into it.

[rustybrick]

Danny, can you report back as to how you like Feedburner in a week or so?

I might want to switch. :)

[dannysullivan]

Will do from time to time via the blog. So far, I'm loving it. Stats, pretty and glorious stats. To be able to know we've got 18,000 readers of our main feed for the first time, not to mention an awesome breakdown by source. I'm giddy like it's 1995 again and I've just fired up a log analysis program. Would have done it long ago if not for the wanting to have the feed with my own domain name. Once that was possible, I was there!

[rustybrick]

Yea, not changing the URLs of the feeds is awesome!

Questions:

(1) How painful was the migration?
- setup
- downtime?
- issues?

(2) Cost ok?

(3) Reliability; keep me posted over the week about downtime, if any - or tech issues if any.

Thanks for taking the leap. :)

[rustybrick]

Danny, I migrated (http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/002460.html) as well, love the stats.

My issues:
- You know how I love Yahoo! Web 2.0 Tagging, that not longer works.
- I would love to consolidate my full feed stats with my abridged feed stats

That is all for now.

[dannysullivan]

Migration was really easy. The biggest problem was that I redirected all our old feed URLs to the new ones. But the new ones were initially created by grabbing the old feeds. So I created a circular loop! FeedBurner warns about doing this before hand, and it further warned me after it happened. I had to make unpublicized "source" URLs, and it was all done.

Biggest surprise so far is seeing how popular hitwise Google Desktop is. I suspect that's because it contantly pulls information, rather than a person doing the clicking. But I haven't had a chance to look further at it.

I see you're still doing a 1.0 and 2.0 feed. There is an option to have a "SmartBurner" feed that will automatically make this. I'd say go for it. I've got a lot of faith that over the past year, they've worked out issues like this, so that you shouldn't feel you have to keep both versions going. The plus is that it just helps reduce the number of feed URLs you have out there, which I think is good as you never know what some top ranking service is going to use to decide how popular you are.

As for the My Web import, I just imported http://feeds.searchenginewatch.com/sewblog, and that worked fine. I then tried your three URLs and got a "no bookmarks imported" error. The only difference is that I'm using SmartBurner and you aren't, so you might try it. You can toggle it on and off easily to test. You can also try important your unpublicized source URLs.

[rustybrick]

Yea, I already use the SmartFeed thing, I consolidated the 1.0 and 2.0 feeds but not the full feed.

My mistake was not submitting my feedburner url, but using the original one. I was hoping the 302s i put in place would work.

Thanks for that tip!