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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1. October 2008 at 6:27 am
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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2. October 2008 at 5:36 am
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…
6. October 2008 at 12:24 pm
Great tips. This will improve my blog’s user friendliness and in turn improve my blog readership indirectly.
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9. October 2008 at 3:48 am
Great tip, I hate redirecting links…
19. October 2008 at 3:18 am
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!
20. October 2008 at 4:58 am
Awesome blogging tips.. and very nice comments as well. Thanks for providing such a quality article.
11. November 2008 at 11:31 am
K,
This solved a puzzle. THANK YOU.
Alec
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12. November 2008 at 5:11 am
Great work, such a crucial function often overlooked and forgotten about. Made a world of difference to my blog
cheers.
13. November 2008 at 3:21 am
I don’t seem to have that on mine, what version are you using??
14. November 2008 at 4:56 am
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.
18. November 2008 at 2:51 am
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?
29. November 2008 at 4:49 pm
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
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2. December 2008 at 3:18 am
It give a bit strange feeling, but it all depends upon the taste of the user.
Thanks for sharing.
3. December 2008 at 4:45 am
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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11. December 2008 at 9:05 pm
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12. December 2008 at 4:02 am
hey.. This was exactly what I was googling for. This was a very entertaining and informative read. I enjoyed it very much. Keep up the good work and Happy Holidays and Happy 2009!
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18. December 2008 at 12:19 am
Hi , I had no idea about this feedburner thing. Thanks, will look into it and see what my settings are.
22. December 2008 at 6:46 am
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.
24. December 2008 at 12:07 am
Interesting, thanks.
26. December 2008 at 5:24 pm
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
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9. January 2009 at 11:26 am
Excellent tip. Definitely employing this on our new blog!
26. January 2009 at 12:07 am
Thanks for sharing this tip and the link on how to turn these off in Feedburner. Much appreciated
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27. January 2009 at 11:39 am
Great tip. I have been guilty of this very thing. I have since changed my settings though. Thanks!
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29. January 2009 at 4:13 am
Some of my RSS subscribers were complaining of this issue. Thanks for helping me resolve it!
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6. February 2009 at 8:30 am
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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8. February 2009 at 10:23 am
i read about this somewhere else too… Nice post m8..keep going cheers
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23. February 2009 at 2:46 pm
Great thread here, I use RSS feeds and they work like charms for my syndication of blogs.
26. February 2009 at 6:41 am
Thanks for the tip, saves a fair bit of server resources.
26. February 2009 at 7:22 pm
You really seem like you know what you’re talking about. Good stuff, keep it up!
26. February 2009 at 10:26 pm
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
1. March 2009 at 6:02 pm
This is a cool blog, i’ll definately be coming back. I like the layout.
3. March 2009 at 7:17 am
This is a great post on how to Turn off FeedBurner Redirect in RSS Feeds.
10. March 2009 at 5:19 am
I used a wordpress plugin that redirected my feeds to feedburner. I turned it off, and now everything is well done
24. April 2009 at 10:04 pm
Thanks, have never used the feed burner on my sites. I’m 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.
7. May 2009 at 6:22 pm
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*
21. July 2009 at 6:20 am
Thanks for the tips help me alot much obliged
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