Multiple Feedburner feeds for same WP blog

  • Hi folks. I’ve spent hours searching in vain for answers to the following questions, and thought it worth trying here, even though the nature of the queries is probably more related to Feedburner than WP.

    I once had my WP blog hosted as a subdomain of one of my other websites, before migrating it to its own domain. When I log into Feedburner, it seems I still have feeds and subscribers connected to the old sub-domain URL. In fact, in all, I have 3 listed Feedburner feeds showing, all under the title of my blog, and each with different numbers of subscribers.

    For each of the 3 listings, the blog title is the same (ie: my current blog title, The Boomtown Rap), but the ‘original feed’ and ‘feed address’ are different in each case.

    I want to sort this out before attempting to migrate from Feedburner to some other RSS/email service (probably Feedblitz or Mailchimp, or a combination of both).

    Does anyone know, please, whether I should delete the two Feedburner feeds that relate to the old subdomain address? Would I lose subscribers if I did?

    I’m thinking maybe there are still subscribers on those old feeds because they are automatically re-directed to the new URL and therefore continue to be able to receive newly posted blog articles through their Feedburner subscriptions. But as is no doubt apparent, I don’t understand this stuff so…

    If someone could help me understand what is going on with these 3 feeds, and what to do to reduce them to one, relating to my current blog address but without losing subscribers, would be so grateful.

    My blog address is https://www.boomtownrap.com

    Cheers
    Ross

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  • Yeah, it’s not really a WordPress question, but I’ve had my morning coffee and I’m in a good mood . . . so, why not? ??

    Been a long time since I played with FeedBurner, but I seem to remember one of the features/benefits was that it had analytics that could tell you how many subscribers are on a feed, active vs. obsolete, that sort of thing. That should help you get a sense of how many people are still consuming your old feeds, at least.

    What I’d suggest is writing a blog entry (or podcast, whatever your distribution media might be) explaining there’s going to be an upcoming change in the feed subscriptions and include a link to the new feed— that way people who are still actively subscribed can transition to the new feed as easily as possible. Repeat this process maybe three times in the course of a month, and at the end of the month you can turn off the old one.

    Thread Starter RossB

    (@rossb)

    Thanks, Andrew (nothing like that morning coffee, I agree!).

    Good suggestion re advising readers of change in feed subscriptions. If I can’t find a way to migrate the Feedburner feeds over automatically, I’ll go your way.

    I still don’t understand why there are 3 separate feeds for my blog shown in Feedburner, though. I’d have thought feeds connected to an old URL would just dry up…why would subscribers be still there?

    I can see the number of subscribers for each feed, but no other details like which are active and which obsolete. Anyway…

    Cheers
    Ross

    Could one feed be for comments only, and another for podcasts, while the third is the “main” one?

    Thread Starter RossB

    (@rossb)

    Sorry, Andrew – neglected to get back and thank you for your input. I don’t know how to tell which feed is which, but your suggestion could well be spot on. Do you happen to know how I can ascertain which feed is which, pls?

    Cheers
    Ross

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