As a voracious RSS feed consumer, I have always been irked by the fact that a lot of FeedBurner enabled blog feeds have the title URL point to a FeedBurner URL instead of a link to the actual post.
If I wanted to bookmark the post or save the link to blog about it, I cannot do it by simply right-clicking. I have to open the post in a new tab/window to get the actual post link. Or I could hunt the bottom of the post to see if the feed has a Permalink to the post.
Recently, I came across this tip in gHacks where you can turn off FeedBurner redirect and make your post title link directly to your post URL.
Here is how you do it:
- Login to your FeedBurner account
- Choose the feed you want to edit
- Under the Analyze tab, click on the ‘FeedBurner StatsPRO’ at the very bottom of the sidebar. (FeedBurner PRO was made free after Google acquired it)
- Uncheck ‘Item Link Clicks’ shown in the screenshot and save it.
After I made this change, all my feed titles now have direct link to my posts. I am going to lose the stats related to this. But right now, making it easy for my readers and fellow bloggers to use my posts is more important to me than those stats.
Also, a FeedBurner plugin such as Better Feed WordPress plugin provide a Permalink to your post and other powerful options to personalize the look of your feed. You have probably noticed how mine looks with this plugin enabled.
It is still quite natural to click the title of the post in the feed to get the link. I wouldn’t have found this if it weren’t for the gHacks post. So, hats off to them!
Does your blog feed has this FeedBurner redirect in post titles? Now, you too can make it easy for me to link to your posts.
Updated 8/13/2008
Are you losing link love from DoFollow + CommentLuv blogs? Read this excellent post from Stephen Cronin, the creator of KeywordLuv plugin who explains quite eloquently (look towards the end of the post) why you shouldn’t let your CommentLuv be stolen away.
if you are curious about what CommentLuv & keyWordLuv mean, read one of the most commented posts in this blog – Get CommentLuv and KeywordLuv for your comments
Updated 12/17/2008
It’s still amazing how many bloggers still have this turned on. I hate it when I have to open the post in another tab in my browser from Google reader just to link to it. Being an active Twitter user, this is just frustrating. If you feel like I do, spread the word and lets get everyone turn this off.
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Sweet Thanks for the tip and walkthrough. I agree with you about the importance of directing my visitors rather than worrying about my stats. Thanks again and greetings from New Zealand
Great tip. I hadn’t known how to do this, so this was a big help.
Thanks.
Awesome. Thanks. I’m making the changes now!
Thanks for the tips. this link juice is very important.
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I appreciate your posting. Let me try out this.
thanks for this information. was rather annoyed to find that commentluv would link to feedburner, and not directly to my blog. š am hoping this’ll fix that.
I used commentluv and keywordluv on my blog but I didn’t turn this off yet. I’ll do it now. Thanks for this great tips.
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This is a great tip that I really hadnt thought about. Most people I have spoken with just turned comment luv on and that was it…
Great tips. This will improve my blog’s user friendliness and in turn improve my blog readership indirectly.
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Great tip, I hate redirecting links…
Great tips of feed reader. I wish more people were aware of the power of RSS and how it can bring people back to a website!
K,
This solved a puzzle. THANK YOU.
Alec
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Great work, such a crucial function often overlooked and forgotten about. Made a world of difference to my blog š cheers.
I don’t seem to have that on mine, what version are you using??
lol dude its present in every version, its pretty easy to change that option. There is also a plugin (only for wordpress) that gives you alot of options to do with this feature.
Not all versions, the beta versions did not include this and i think it is only available in versions 1.1 and above. Anyway, its not exactly hard to find, its in the settings :S and you could just read the manual? š
Thank you!
Finally commentluv works. I have been posting comments all over and it just showed one of the posts I published several weeks ago.
I used a wordpress plugin that redirected my feeds to feedburner. I turned it off, and now everything is perfect š
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It give a bit strange feeling, but it all depends upon the taste of the user.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! I was searching Feedburner to try to find how to do this. Your instructions with helpful screen shots were just what I needed. Thanks a bunch!
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Hi , I had no idea about this feedburner thing. Thanks, will look into it and see what my settings are.
Cheers, this will come in handy when i do my next update. I think lots of content is good for users but to much and they can drown in it.
Interesting, thanks.
Great article (I found you via the CommentLuv/Feedburner Blog post). I don’t know that I knew what those Item Clicks Stats were anyway š
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Excellent tip. Definitely employing this on our new blog!
Thanks for sharing this tip and the link on how to turn these off in Feedburner. Much appreciated š
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Great tip. I have been guilty of this very thing. I have since changed my settings though. Thanks!
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Some of my RSS subscribers were complaining of this issue. Thanks for helping me resolve it!
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Thanks for the hack! We need to do anything we can to make sure we get credit for our links. I learn something new everyday in this business.
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i read about this somewhere else too… Nice post m8..keep going cheers
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Great thread here, I use RSS feeds and they work like charms for my syndication of blogs.
Thanks for the tip, saves a fair bit of server resources.
You really seem like you know what you’re talking about. Good stuff, keep it up!
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
This is a cool blog, i’ll definately be coming back. I like the layout.
This is a great post on how to Turn off FeedBurner Redirect in RSS Feeds.
Thanks, have never used the feed burner on my sites. Iām going to give it a try and will us your setting that is recommended. Thanks again for the tip i will let you know how it turns out.
Well, this one doesn’t solve my problem.. I even have tried to deactivate the FeedBurner plugins but to no avail. Still got the cURL error 6: name lookup timed out..
*sigh*
Thanks for the tips help me alot much obliged
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Nice one ! I think I might stick with bloging all times.
Nice one ! I think I might stick with bloging all times.
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Yes i agree i’ll stick with bloging.