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How To: Redirect A Feedburner Feed to Another Feedburner Feed

Posted by Kyle Eslick on January 17th, 2008 | Category and Tags | 0 comments

If you decide to switch domains, or just want to use a new Feedburner URL for your feed, there is a way to make the switch while making it as easy as possible for your subscribers to make the transition.

Feedburner has a built in Feedburner redirect that anyone can use with the following easy steps:

  1. Create your new Feedburner feed.
  2. Click the feed you want to delete.
  3. Click Edit Feed Details.
  4. Enter the URL for the new Feedburner feed in the source feed field.
  5. Click Save.
  6. Now Delete this feed and enable 30 day redirection.

This will cause the old feed to show the same content as your new feed for 15 days.  For the remaining 15 days your feed will then display a message to your subscribers on your old feed prompting them to now subscribe to the new feed (which it provides).

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NewsGator Products Now Free…Giving FeedDemon A Try

Posted by Kyle Eslick on January 10th, 2008 | Category and Tags | 0 comments

I’m a big fan of both Google Reader and Bloglines, but I’ve made no secret of the fact that I feel GreatNews does the best job of filling my feed reading needs. I don’t need a web-based feed reader really and I like the extra features that GreatNews offers.

One thing I always wanted to try was the NewsGator desktop feed reader FeedDemon. It comes highly recommended from several people whose opinions I have a great respect for, but it has always had a cost associated with it. I’m certainly not opposed to forking over some cash for a product that will fill a need of mine (such as SnagIt), but it was a need that GreatNews was filling for free.

Today I noticed that anyone can now download NewsGator products for free, including their desktop feed reader, Feed Demon. I was of course thrilled to see this news so that I could give it a try. It only took about 5 minutes to export and then import my feeds between the two readers and I was up and running. So far things are great, but I want to give it a few days going through my routine before I decide if I’m going to stick with them. I also want to check out how it syncs up with its online counterpart, NewsGator online.

Have you tried Feed Demon yet? I’m mostly interested in getting the opinions of those that use desktop feed readers, but I’d like to hear from anyone that has tried Feed Demon before.

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