Comments on: Using FeedBurner may hurt your PageRank!

By: Gagan

Gagan — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:34:52 +0000

thanks alot for the tip.

By: Giancarlo

Giancarlo — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:18:44 +0000

http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?answer=78951 Just the information I was looking for, thanks. I was wondering about this because I have several sites stripping my Feedburner Feed and re-posting my site's articles on theirs. I thought to myself, well I can't really do much about it but at least I'm getting a link back. Then I notice the weird feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedname/~3/512685707/ url and thought "oh man am I getting some page rank juice from this?" but luckily I read the comments left by the others and notice the Google FAQ link located right next to "item links clicks". So in conclusion we can keep our STATS, and keep the PR Juice!

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:03:45 +0000

@mk_michael
After Google acquired feedburner, they made everything free – so you only have the Pro features now.

By: mk_michael

mk_michael — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:09:47 +0000

I cannot find the link called “Standard Stats”, I’ve only the Pro Stats. By clicking the Pro Stats, the “item link click” is disabled for default. Maybe they changed it.

By: Jagdu

Jagdu — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:18:35 +0000

Doing exactly what you said, it was easy to fix. For me, the link on the bottom left says, “FeedBurner Stats PRO”. Change that and you’re good to go.

By: aaron

aaron — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:48:35 +0000

They seem to have addressed this and now have an option to optimize for search engines.

By: Partz Partzescu

Partz Partzescu — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:11:57 +0000

Thank you very much this post helped me because i couldnt find the setting that did this to my feed links now i fixed it

By: ReviewSaurus

ReviewSaurus — Thu, 17 May 2007 08:58:57 +0000

So I guess that Rick’s explanation clears up things and that it will not effect the pagerank…

By: Mike Malone

Mike Malone — Thu, 10 May 2007 18:20:44 +0000

Yea, I don’t know why TotalStats uses 302 redirects by default. The difference is that a 302 redirect is supposed to be “Temporary,” while a 301 is supposed to be “Permanent.” Feedburner may be using the 302 redirect if they want to be able to redirect a link to a different URL without being non-compliant, but I’m just speculating.

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Thu, 10 May 2007 18:13:01 +0000

@Mike
I always thought that we should use 301 redirects if we are moving a page. Thanks for the Matt Cutts link.

@Rick Klau
I did not know that TotalStats support 301 redirects – thanks for sharing.