Google and Feedburner Broke My RSS Feed… Unlimited Redirect Loop – What Up With That?
My troubles started today early in the morning and coincided with a new post by a new author on AtA – He just happens to blog in word and cut and paste – We all know Blogger and MS Word do not play nicely together. Long story short i got rid of the formatting and called it a night. I woke up in the morning grabbed my Dash and saw my AtA feed was not synced up – WTF?
Of Course as a Good Admin I wouldn’t go jumping to any conclusions and blame somebody before investigating… Well I did and I’m SORRY because it turns out it was a combination of Google’s services, Blogger and Feedburner that screwed AtA this morning. A while back Blogger added a feature to forward ALL your feed requests to feedburner to track your RSS stats. Which has been great for a while now.
But yesterday our stats crapped out and it said we lost half of our readers – I know we couldn’t have had that many people jump ship at the same time! I tried to hit the feed via URL in IE7 – no problem. Just for shits and giggles I tried it in Firefox and got an Error… basically it said We will never be able to open this page because of a redirect loop… WHAT?
So It looks like blogger was forwarding to feedburner and feedburner was forwarding to blogger… Whats going on over there @ google??? Someone pushed the big red button marked DO NOT PUSH THIS BIG RED BUTTON? All this before my morning coffee! So I un-did this:
And now we are back to normal with out all the feedburner re-directs. Has anyone else seen a HUGE drop in feedburner stats and an inability to download your RSS for these or other reasons?? Hit us up – we hate being in the dark!
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Sorry For The Accusation Before I Fully Investigated Peter! Great Article and Welcome To AtA!
August 24, 2007 - 3:09 pm
I didn’t notice that particular problem today (You get up earlier than I do since your on the East coast). I did notice a problem with their stats about two days ago. i had to turn to my bigstats.net account to get up to date information. I think you’re right about the big red button thing. I guess they thought it was the Staples Easy Button.
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August 24, 2007 - 3:16 pm
Do you have your feeds redirected from blogger to fedburner through the blogger console?
If you try to browse to your normal feed address do you get stuck in a redirect loop?
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August 24, 2007 - 11:16 am
Do you have your feeds redirected from blogger to fedburner through the blogger console?
If you try to browse to your normal feed address do you get stuck in a redirect loop?
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