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Finally
I did several things wrong when I started this blog almost three years ago.
I didn't domain map it on day one and was happy to use the avc.blogs.com URL.
I didn't realize at the time that AVC would be something worthy of its own URL and moving it now is an effort I don't relish making.
An even bigger issue was creating two feeds (an rss and an atom feed) that were hosted by typepad.
Feedburner didn't exist in September 2003 so there really wasn't much choice.
I built up somewhere around 3000 feed subs by the time I figured out how to turn off autodiscovery and force all new feed subs to go through FeedBurner.
Those 3000 subs have been stranded and I have been unable to track them, see what they are reading, offer them feedflares, and run advertising for them.
But finally after over two years of wishing and begging, TypePad has built in full blown FeedBurner integration. Hooray!
The 3000 subs that were stranded have been rescued and brought into the fold.
I am thrilled and think this is a big deal. So does Mike Arrington.
Comments (7) | Posted June 8, 2006 in Venture Capital and Technology
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Fred - how can you NOT have grabbed avcblog.com and avcblogs.com? Heck, you could go all del.icio.us on us and get vcblo.gs (for a.vcblo.gs of course). As of this minute at least, they're all available...
Tsk-tsk. I hereby deem you NOT a Net Native.
Posted by: Oskar Austegard | Jun 8, 2006 9:34:09 AM
Fred, do the mapping now. Then start using the 'proper' url. No pain, but at least you will be doing the right thing from now on. The existing address will carry on working forever, so no harm done.
Posted by: ivan | Jun 8, 2006 4:18:06 PM
Fred- Calling those 3000 early subscribers stranded is not quite right. They are still getting your content. You cant measure them or monetize them. So I guess in fact you are the one stranded from them. I too am excited by the feedburner-typepad integration.
Posted by: alan shimel | Jun 8, 2006 10:05:26 PM
ive spent 15 months blogging @ benbarren.blogspot.com and own benbarren.com but i cant handle the loss of technorati and page rank etc inboundlink ratings etc loss. even when scoble moved to wordpress technorati had to make an exception for him in their ranking. i dont think that happens when u hover between 7000 + 8000 ! so is fred moving his blog address ? :) BB
Posted by: Ben Barren | Jun 9, 2006 4:35:29 AM
Wow, thanks for the tip, Fred! I'm going to do this right away. Before, I couldn't do it without access to the blog source code, which I don't have on TypePad at my payment level.
Posted by: Brouhaha | Jun 9, 2006 8:35:46 AM
I made the same mistake. So, how does it effect stuff like technorati ratings and the like?
Posted by: Beth | Jun 9, 2006 9:59:15 AM
Now you just gotta get that domain issue fixed.
Posted by: Rick Stratton | Jun 10, 2006 10:26:57 PM
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