How To Make Your Feed URL SEO Friendly

by Krish on May 15, 2009

Are you using feedburner? If yes, then you must be knowing that it offers tracking of your feed URLs. It actually tracks the number of views and clicks your feed have recieved. These stats are useless because I am sure most of us use Google Analytics or other means of tracking these stats. Now, coming to the point if you are using the default URL from feedburner then there is some serious problem you need consider. The default feedburner URL displays like a junk something like this http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bloggertalkz/~3/OfVlynKjQwE/ which is not search engine friendly. This will have an impact on your page ranking as well.

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But not to worry much because we can make the feeds search engine friendly by disabling this view tracking feature from your feedburner account. It is very simple, go to your feedburner account, select your feed and under Analyze -> Configure stats, uncheck Item link clicks option.

Now if you see your feed urls, you can see they don’t have the feedburner tracking code and the feed items urls are directly pointing to your posts only. Now your feeds will get easy backlinks to your original post if they are used anywhere.

Hope this tip was useful. If you have a different opinion please do share in the comment area.

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1 Salwa (5 comments.) May 18, 2009 at 6:12 pm: Hi Krish,

Thanks for posting this little tip for us. I am sure many will find this useful. I know i did!

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Krish Reply:
May 21st, 2009 at 10:41 am
Thanks Salwa. Yes such small tips are quite useful. I am glad you liked it. Please do share with your readers if you think it might be useful for them as well.
Cheers
Krish

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2 Internet Strategist @GrowMap (1 comments.) July 5, 2009 at 9:11 am: Hello Salwa,

I changed that setting and even resynced my Feedburner account and still my CommentLuv links have feedproxy.google.com instead of direct links to my domain. Do you know what else I may need to change at either Google/Feedburner or WordPress?
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3 Noah@Internet Marketing Blog(new comment) July 21, 2009 at 11:21 pm: To the above commenter: I know there used to be an issue with feedburner where it wouldn’t show the proper feeds despite doing Salwa’s tip. I could’ve sworn they fixed that a good while, ago, though, so I’m not sure what it’d be. Have you thought about contacting Feedburner support?
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4 iklan baris gratis(new comment) August 11, 2009 at 11:54 pm: wew,,its new for me,.thanks for info,,can i copy this???

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Krish Reply:
August 13th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Thanks iklan for your comment. I didnt understand what you meant by copy .

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5 Frumusete(new comment) August 12, 2009 at 7:59 pm: Big thanks for sharing

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Krish Reply:
August 13th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
You are welcome Frumusete. Hope to see you around.

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6 Sorcerer(new comment) October 15, 2009 at 4:01 pm: Thanks a lot.I corrected that and some other issues with the feed.Thanks a lot
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7 Jamal(new comment) November 11, 2009 at 3:24 pm: Hi Krish,

Very helpful tip that i’m sure a LOT of people are going to find useful .

What’s your opinion on iGoogle for “extra rss juice” ?

Cheers,
Jamal

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