I am flipping things around today. Saturday Six will be on Sunday and Social Media Sunday is today. Considering today is the day that Google’s Feedburner service is shutting down, I thought it was important to post it. There are several great articles on the topic, including this one from Tech Crunch as well as this very thorough one from Melissa at MomComm.
For Misadventures with Andi, I have moved to Feedblitz [affiliate link], I completed the migration today and fingers-crossed the transition will be smooth. I am not usually technically challenged, but I think I have too much on my mind today, so I hope I completed the process correctly! You may get notified to re-subscribe, honestly I am not sure. I was reading the documentation and at one point it was seamless and you wouldn’t be bothered, but on another page it sounded like you would.
If you don’t have email subscribers and you are on WordPress, there is a native plug-in that is easy to update. You simply change your feed url from http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogname to your WordPress feed http://blogurl.com/feed. If you have email you need to consider another service like Feedblitz which is paid (you pay for the number of email subscribers you have, the RSS portion is free). If you use MailChimp [affiliate link] you can use their RSS email subscription service. I decided against this because I wanted to keep my email and RSS services together.
I guess we will muddle through this together! But make sure you do something about it asap!
How about you? What will be your RSS and email solution?
Thanks for this article; it was really helpful. I just signed up for Feedblitz and it was really easy.
@Jan, great I am so glad. There was a couple day delay before I saw my subscribers migrated over, but everything is running properly now for me too!
I still don’t’ understand. I am still signing up for emails with feedburner on blogs so is it shut down or not, it’s like it’s still working.
It’s now November and I still haven’t switched. So far, Feedburner is still sending out my emails, and the feed appears to still be there. Until it stops, I just can’t deal with it…too busy!
I’ve been trying to decide what to do. I’m on Blogger and it seems like all transitions and transfers are a little buggy and behind WordPress’s ability to take things to the next level. I’m going to wait until Feedburner crashes and burns. I’m guessing they’re working on a way to transfer the feeds so that we don’t lose subscribers. That would be in step with the Google brand. We’ll see. I’m afraid I’d destroy something if I attempted it now. I am looking at using Mailchimp to deliver emails only. It’s all so confusing!!
I have to say, the transition seamed to be pretty seamless overall.
It is always hard to transition from something that we are use to.
@Jen, I was confused and got through it. I had a momentary heart attack when I thought I lost all my readers, but there was just a 1-day delay, so disaster avoided!
@Sarah, I totally get you on that and have a ton of friends doing the same thing!
@Jennifer, Google has not given an official word, they have just slowly backed off from supporting the tool. All the blogs I sign up for are through Feedburner too. The reader is staying, but the publishing part (what pushes the posts out to the readers) is going away….eventually.