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Redirect WordPress RSS Feeds to Feedburner To Increase RSS Readers

Posted: 27 May 2010 07:18 AM PDT

This hack will help you redirect all your RSS subscribers to your Feedburner feeds, which will help you increase your rss subscribers by a noticeable amount. Also you don’t have to manually edit your theme, everytime you change it or use a optimized one.

This simple tutorial will help you achieve this in a snap.

Technique:

Note: Do take backup of your .htaccess(hypertext access) file.

01. Search for a file named .htaccess(hypertext access) in the webroot of your server (FTP) and can be easily edited using any text editor (like Notepad). Open it and add below code in it:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedValidator [NC]
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/tutzone[R=302,NC,L]

02. Edit the 5th line where is says http://feeds.feedburner.com/tutzone to your feedburner link.

03. Save and you are done.