Moving Your Blog? Bring Your Feed With You

By on January 2, 2007 in Blogging, RSS Feeds with 2 Comments

Yesterday, we talked about moving your blog and communicating that on your old site. But what of your readers? How do you redirect those folks in a smooth manner?

The way I’ve found this to work best – especially if you’ve got a good-size audience -is to use FeedBurner’s 30-day redirect.

  1. On your new site, burn a new feed at FeedBurner.
  2. Once you have the new feed address, edit the old feed’s source to your new feed.
  3. Once you’ve made that change, you can delete the old feed and use the 30-day redirect.

I’ve experienced this on both ends of the blog relationship (publisher and audience) and it works well.  There are more tech-heavy ways to do this, but one of my resolutions was to go tech-light this year.

FeedBurner’s Support Forums also offers hints on this redirect.

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  • http://www.lonelymarketer.wordpress.com Patrick Schaber

    Mike – good info! I’m in the process of trying to figure out how to move my content and subscribers to a new domain. I’m worried about bookmarking sites getting all my posts again.
    -Pat

  • http://www.converstations.com Mike Sansone

    Hi Patrick, hopefully the feedburner buzzboost helps. I know that WP.com now offers domain mapping, have you checked on that? The bookmarks may follow along.

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