Moving FeedBurner account to Google

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Posted in » Google, Trackers - by Ades on January 24th, 2009

For the past few days my RSS feed counter has been showing wrong count. Instead of showing 1200+ subscribers it is showing 700-800 subscribers. It’s clearly something wrong, because even with fluctuations it should be around 1000+ subscribers. Plus/minus 200 subscribers is ok, but when almost 500 subscribers are missing then there is really something wrong.

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I guess it’s time to move my FeedBurner account to Google. As you remember after Google acquired FeedBurner, they have been encouraging people to move their FeedBurner account to Google. Everyone must move by February 28, 2009.

Why is FeedBurner merging its product with Google’s?

Our vision when FeedBurner joined Google was to help bring the best of what FeedBurner offered in syndication publisher tools and solutions to the AdSense platform, and vice versa. In the time since the merger, the FeedBurner engineering team has joined the Google engineering team (but still focuses on the same set of tools for RSS monetization, analysis, and optimization) and is not managed as a separate company or subsidiary.

Why do I need to transfer my account?

We are moving all FeedBurner accounts to Google Accounts.

Since Google’s acquisition of FeedBurner, Inc. on June 1, 2007, we have been moving the FeedBurner application to Google hardware, software, and data centers. This allows the application to scale and perform like most Google applications and integrate easily with other Google platforms. It also means more reliability in delivering your content, analytics, and monetization, as well as a more secure and consistent experience for your users.

In order to provide an integrated experience and to support the new features we have planned for our feed platform, as well as to improve security, it is necessary for logins to be handled via a Google Account. from FAQ

Transferred!

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It took few clicks and about 1 minute to transfer the account. My new RSS feed is now http://feeds2.feedburner.com/AdesBlog. Old feeds will automatically point to the new one, but for the new subscribers it’s recommended that you give the new feed url.

Google warns that the RSS count might temporarily show “0″ for the latest day, and it might take around one week for it to work normally.

So, when are you transferring yours? I hope not on the last day - 28th February 2009!

FAQ Page: www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?answer=126303
New Login URL: feedburner.google.com/

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11 Responses to “Moving FeedBurner account to Google”

  1. By Brandon Walker on Jan 24, 2009

    Hey ades,

    Thanks for this blog post. I have been meaning to get around to transferring my feeds from feedburner to Google but still haven’t got around to it. Thanks for the reminder!
    I would hate to be transferring my feeds over on the last day 28th February 2009! I wouldn’t be surprised if google was working overtime on that day! lol

  2. By Mikko on Jan 24, 2009

    I’ve migrated mine, three or four days ago. My stat still says 0. Still waiting for it to update.

  3. By OpenSourceHunter on Jan 24, 2009

    I have the same problems, but it seem that this is a temporary bug/error. My stats are now back to normal.

    greetz

  4. By Shanker Bakshi on Jan 25, 2009

    feedburner Sucks, It plays with your subscriber count, its the unique feature of feedburner.Google must take care of his boys.

  5. By Free PS3 on Jan 25, 2009

    I didn’t know that we needed to move our accounts, will it move automatically if we don’t move it?

  6. By titan on Jan 26, 2009

    ehm..i don’t think i will do that. Might be not in short time..

  7. By Kay Kastum on Feb 6, 2009

    After I completed the task.. my count dropped and worse thing is, folks can’t subscribe to my blog using the normal Google Reader. No updates nothing.. unless they use the subscribe via-email updates thingy.. (sad)

  8. By Ades on Feb 6, 2009

    @Kay Kastum, why your Feed URL starts with feedproxy.google and not feeds2.feedburner ? maybe that’s the reason why people cannot subscribe?

  9. By Kay Kastum on Feb 6, 2009

    Hi Ades. Is it? LoL! I’m an idiot when it comes to all this stuff sometimes. Now where do I start… hmm

  10. By CSS Gallery on Feb 22, 2009

    I ran through this process and it was fairly simple. I use Google for everything already, why not one more service?

  11. By mahalie on Apr 1, 2009

    If you start a new account you can only login at feedburner.google.com. If you happen to use Blip.tv or some other service that interfaces with feedburner it won’t work because your username will not be found @feedburner due to new login.

    Check out the “support” forums which moved to Google Groups. Deserted, just full of frustrated users with unanswered questions.

    I am bummed about this, Feedburner is the perfect tool for protecting yourself against future site/feed moves and I like the idea of using Google for everything (analytics is great) but in this case it sucks.


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