As you probably know, back in February Google migrated all the old Feedburner feeds to the new Google servers. For the end user it was just a matter of clicking on the “Migrate” button in the control panel. After that, your feed URL probably changed from feeds.feedburber.com/blogname to feeds2.feedburner.com/blogname.
Right after the change, however, the old Feedburner feeds were being redirected to the new one, so many bloggers (myself included) felt that it was not necessary to update the feed links on their blogs.
Today, however, I got an email from Melvin where he says that his Feedburner feed count widget stopped working, and that he started getting a 404 on his old Feedburner feed page.
While I am not seeing broken feed count widgets or 404 feed pages around, I did notice that the old Feedburner feeds are not redirecting to the new one anymore. If you check on your blog, for example, you should see both feed versions working.
Could this indicate that Google is about to stop the support for the old feeds? I am not sure, but it could be the right time to update your feed links and start using the new one around, if you have not done that already.
If you use the FeedSmith plugin, make sure to update your feed URL there too.
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Mark is an digital entrepreneur from New York City who recently acquired DBT. He started his ventures buying growing then selling several businesses and content blogs on Flippa. A perfect night for him constitutes pizza, wine, slow jazz and WordPress! He's an SEO expert and a growth strategist. When he's not working on his businesses he enjoys sharing his learned lessons with the DBT community.
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