Admittedly I am a bad blogger. I do not push, ask for, put extra entries for, or otherwise baby my RSS feeds. It’s been a huge mistake of mine.
HOWEVER, I was a tad sad that the 1000 people that faithfully read my blog on a daily basis got bumped when Feedburner went kaput to 0 yesterday (now being defended as a “glitch”.
Here is what greeted me today:
If you do not know, Feedburner API is going Bye Bye and if you were naughty like me and have not downloaded an Excel file or CSV file to change your feeds to feedblitz or a newsletter program, I found a fix.
Login and go to you PUBLICIZE tab.
Then under email you can export:
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Another way…
OR you can CHANGE THE DATE to a few days ago…I picked Sept 16th.
and voila…all the old stats appear:
Then do an EXPORT on the CSV file link.
It will look like this when you download (minus the red privacy block I added):
Now at least you have them.
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I will update shortly where I put them (some are suggesting FeedBlitz and I am personally thinking MailChimp RSS feed) so you can check it out or please share your solutions below.
Just wanted to put this info out there for all those people (rightfully) panicking so you can save what you have. There appears to be a lot of debate on what is happening to Feedburner. My position? Just take your subscribers off and get them in a more independent place to be on the safe side. According to Neville Hobson, you will no longer be able to use Feedburner for RSS as of October 20th.
- Here is a very in depth article from Feedblitz “The Facts and Tales from the Front Line”
- Will Google Shut down Feedburner
- Is feedburner about to be shut down
- We’re leaving Feedburner and why you should too.
- What if Feedburner Closes
~trisha
Great post, Trisha! We’ve testing in private beta a platform that handles email subscriptions and auto-sends out new blog posts. And, it’s free, so it might be a good option for a number of bloggers. More details here in case anyone is interested: http://www.launchbit.com/blog/want-to-move-off-feedburner/
thankyou! ill check it out!
Thanks for this post. I use Feedburner, had thought about switching to MailChimp as I use MC for my newsletters but IDK yet ….
I meant *Jetpack* today is not my day LOL
I switched mine to Jeypack since I already had many subscribers on it
That really sucks about feedburner. What’s next to go.
Thank you SO much for this!!!
What frustrates me is all of the other email services require you to put your mailing address which I am not comfortable doing
I had no idea until I just read this blog post. Ugh!
Thanks Trisha! You rock for how quick you were on this and helped!
Than you so much for taking time to show me how to do this!!
Just heard of this information a few hours ago and I’m glad that I found your blog with details on how to move the subscribers. I’ll go take mine off right away.
Thanks for sharing.
I just started using TinyLetter.com and I really like it! Plus it’s free for any size!
Do you have to compose each newsletter that go’s out or is it automated? I just signed up but can’t figure it out.
No, I just noticed that as well. You’ll have to send out each newsletter, but, I think with it being free and easy to use, it’s going to be a trade off to some. I know I’m a very small blog and I’m just starting off with my newsletter, but, I could see it being a pain for those with thousands of subscribers. I can not afford to pay for my own domain name yet, let alone a newsletter!!
yeah, I have about 800 email subscribers, so that won’t work for me. Maybe if we ALL bombarded Google with emails and letters not to shut it down, they will listen!
Wishful thinking?
The only problem with mail chimp is that you have to provide you actual physical address to be mailed out for everyone to see! That is not something I want to do! I didn’t have to with Feedburner…there has to be another FREE solution.
can you list a PO box?
The link in your post states “Closing an API is not the same thing as closing the service. The Feedburner APIs did very little other than give you a way of pulling your Feedburner subscription stats into other metrics systems. The death of the API will kill a few WordPress plugins and some app, but not much else. ” and
google’s blog states : Known Issue: Subscriber Counts and Stats
Friday, September 21, 2012 | 9:26 AM
Issue: We have been encountering difficulties with our stats production pipeline for data representing Sept 19th and 20th, 2012. We are currently working to resolve the issue.
So all looks to be fine. email subscribers only accounts for less then 1/3 of my subscribers so if all is lost this isn’t the best recovery, I mean it’s something, but 2/3 of the subscribers via readers are poof – gone?
Read this one too…i think it brings a good point up about things going away . The truth is, Google is so unstable about programs! With them shutting down the twitter and facebook and old URL and now the API…. its an awfully scary guess for some blogs.
http://www.feedblitz.com/feedburner-shut-down-the-facts-and-tales-from-the-front-line/
Thank you so much for posting this information!!! You rock!
Thank you so much I just got everything switched of to mailchimp and it was so simple thanks to this
Thanks for this! Right now I barely have any subscibers, but am hoping to get them settled somewhere soon. Right now I’m thinking Feedblitz, but can’t decide between Mailchimp & that.
You freaked me out for a second! I fell out of the habit of backing up my list of subscribers–I’m glad I have a current one.
I have 10,000 email subscribers. I think I need to learn how to monetize that feed because it looks like it’s going to cost over $100 a month to keep it up!
MailChimp makes you publish your mailing address with every email. Don’t think I like that.
I’m with you! That’s one reason I haven’t considered them. I’d have to pay for their service, plus a PO Box to keep my privacy.
Thanks! I just did this! Heading over to figure out MailChimp
I am using madmimi and LOVE it. It’s less expensive than mailchimp. 1,000 contacts $10 a month. 2,500 $14 a month. And they have an affiliate program
Thanks Trisha! I’m so sick of Google!
Cool! Thanks Trisha!!
Ok I got my email subscribers info but 75% are RSS not email and I can’t find a way to access their info
I am not 100% sure on RSS…ill go searching.
this one says http://kb.feedblitz.com/article/AA-00477/0/How-to-Migrate-RSS-Feed-Subscribers-from-FeedBurner.html
My feed is gone all together so I can’t even access to try and go back to another date…
I just did this, Thanks Tricia but my CSV file doesn’t list email addresses just daily numbers of subscribers. Maybe I did something wrong?
yes, that happened to me when i didnt change the date.
Change the date, then go down to the CSV and it will have the emails from that date. I used Sept 16th.
I had to go in a bit farther – to “manage your email subscriber list” to find the actual emails. Even with backdating.
glad you found it though! Or go to publicize , then email list, then download.
My CSV doesn’t list email addys either, just random numbers. 99% of my subscribers subscribe to my feed through feed readers, not email. I’m transitioning to feedblitz and hopefully they’ll be able to redirect readers.
Try to go through publicize, then to email subscribers and download
Annie – can feeds be transferred to JetPack?
poop, poop, poop!!!!! I need to do this. Dang it!!!!!!!!!!
Ugh — I don’t have the brainpower to deal with this today. I’m going to be stalking this post and the forum till someone lays out a step by step solution.
someone else suggested JetPack on WordPress. JetPack has an RSS email option that is free
Jeypack is free BUT it uses the WordPress.com platform so your new subscribers will have to create yet another account to subscribe if they don’t already have a WP.com account! That’s not what I want plus (to my knowledge) you can’t import your existing subscribers so you have to start from scratch!
I didn’t export but I haven’t heard of a free program to use in its place
What about MailChimp? You can set it up for an RSS feed and its free up to like 2000 subcribers
Im scared to look at how much it is monthly if you have more than 5000… Will mail chimp auto send things out?
yes they do
Here’s a part of the answer to your questions
1) Feeds are still currently being served by Feedburner, it’s just the counter that is broken
2) We don’t know whether this zero subscribers issue is temporary or not
3) The API is being shut down Oct 20th this is not the feed delivery service, just the API.
4) If accurate stats are important to you, switch to another service like FeedBlitz:
a. Why: http://www.feedblitz.com/feedburner-shut-down-the-facts-and-tales-from-the-front-line/
b. How: http://www.feedblitz.com/the-feedburner-migration-guide/
c. Results: http://www.feedblitz.com/feedburner-feedblitz-case-studies/
I work for FeedBlitz and we’d be happy to assist you with any support you need to migrate your feed and your email subscribers.
On FeedBlitz the RSS service is FREE you only pay if you deliver your blog content by email.
Rebecca
Hi Rebecca.
I am considering moving to FBlitz, but isn’t it true that now we don’t have access to any new subscribers since FB had this mess going on? So whomever has subscribed since then, we just can’t get their emails. The only thing I can think of is writing a post to ask readers to email me w/ their info…or just ask them to resubscribe. What a mess!!!
working on setting up mailchimp now