Redirecting feeds in Feedburner

I don’t want to lose all the RSS feed (or webfeed) subscribers I’ve
built up over the years, so I asked Rick Klau of Feedburner whether I
could redirect the feeds from NewMediaMusings.com to SocialMedia.biz.
Yes, he said, and walked me through it. (This is one of the reasons I’m
a huge fan of Feedburner.) Here are the steps:

Step 1: Go to your My Feeds page. Select the name of your old feed that you want to redirect, and click ‘edit feed details.’

Step 2: In the field called ‘original feed,’ type in (or copy) your new feed (mine is: ‘http://feeds.feedburner.com/typepad/social_media‘) and  click the button labeled ‘save feed details.’

Step 3: Click ‘delete feed’ (right next to ‘edit feed details’). Don’t
be nervous — check the box labeled ‘use 30 day redirection’. Click the
button that says ‘delete this feed now.’

You’ll be done. In my case, this sends all requests for
feeds.feedburner.com/newmediamusings to
feeds.feedburner.com/typepad/social_media.
It sends a permanent redirect, so most aggregators will automatically
update their subscription to the new feed URL. This will ensure that
both audiences converge on your new feed.

Hope this works for my 12,186 subscribers at NewMediaMusings. If not, you can manually add my new feed.

JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.