TypePad feeds get FeedBurner'ed - at last

“Thank God!” was my reaction when I heard the news that Six Apart and FeedBurner have finally entered into a deal of some sort – redirecting TypePad default feeds (index.rdf, atom.xml, rss.xml) to one’s FeedBurner managed feed. Six Apart has elected not to provide detailed feed statistics for TypePad a while back, which has created a market opportunity for FeedBurner to grow into, and this most welcome move is something I have been asking/bitching about for over a year. It is great to finally have it.

The setup is very straightforward: goto to the “Configure” tab of your Typepad blog, select the “Feeds” header and  below “Feed Preferences” you will see this new FeedBurner setting. Click “Connect to FeedBurner” and a popup will appear to allow you to enter your credentials, and choose which of your managed feeds is to be associated with your blog. Repeat the operation for every blog you have on TypePad that you want “FeedBurner’ed” – and you are done.

The implementation of this option is a redirection of requests to (index.rdf, atom.xml, rss.xml) to the managed feed.

The net benefit of that feature ? Get an aggregated number of subscribers to start with.

Tags: feedburner, sixapart