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| Feedburner Sucks! - Don't let it hijack your feed! |
So, we haven't posted for a couple of days. The main reason is we've been too busy kicking ourselves for succumbing to the temptation of easy syndication, easy stats and drag and drop bookmarking buttons we could add to our feed without overexerting ourselves. If you are wondering what all the fuss is about, it's pretty simple - we let feedburner hijack our feed and are now backtracking to try and get it back. The first few weeks of our love affair with feedburner was all champagne and roses. Readership numbers rising, services being pinged automatically - how wonderful. But then the unimaginable happened... feedburner somehow managed to hijack our feed. If anyone clicked on the link back to the website from within their reader, feedburner somehow managed to redirect them to the wrong url - an article hosted on feeds.feedburner.com instead of Rak-Wholesale.com. Not a complete disaster, only problem is - we have no way of fixing this, since we cannot edit the xml file, and we can't get our readers back since they are all owned by feedburner now - thanks to our laziness... But this isn't the only problem we were experiencing with feedburner. Since one of the main reasons we opted for this Google service to begin with was the fact that they promised to serve adsense ads within feeds, but as you all might have noticed possibly from your own experience - this does not happen. As a result, we researched into alternate ways to serve ads withing feed posts. Apparently this isn't an easy task either. If you try to implement the services mentioned in a previous post (monetize your feed) you will be faced with similar issues - feedflare all but crashing your reader and scripts you cannot implement because - again - you have limited control over the output unless you resort to hacking your core php files - something we just assume not attempt. In any case, if you are thinking about using feedburner for your syndication, and the above reasons didn't make you rethink your decision, you might want to read a very important post which explains why you should keep control of your readers, and how you could still benefit from feedburner's statistics without relinquishing all control. In the next couple of days we will be backtracking, hacking and reclaiming control of our hard earned feed and subscribers. We strongly suggest you rethink your syndication and subscription options and keep your valuable readers your own. You earned it - no reason to give them away. And again - the url of our site is www.Rak-Wholesale.com - NOT feeds.feedburner.com. Thanks for your patience, The Rak-Wholesale.com Team
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