Moved from Blogger to Wordpress and lost 300+ subscribers

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dotdorsner

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Jul 2, 2009, 3:06:46 PM7/2/09
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Had the feedburner feed on Blogger, and changed it to pull from
Wordpress instead, so it should have been seamless to my readers. But
I noticed my stats dropped by half, so I've apparently lost half of my
subscribers. How can I find them and get them back? Did I do
something wrong?

magreb

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Jul 3, 2009, 6:25:52 AM7/3/09
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I deal with the same situation for the last week or so. I moved to
wordpress and lost 1/3 of my subscribers.

There's a couple of things I notice so far which might prove useful to
you:

1. for some strange reason I had 31 subscribers on the blogspot's
default feed (i.e. *.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default). I have no idea
how this happen btw, as i have never published that feed, rather
feedburner's URL instead. But the fact of the matter is that this is
an issue! This certainly explains the loss of 31 (and I will have to
do something about them). So let me suggest to see how many you have
there. U can use Google's webmaster tools.

2. Also I redirected <blog>.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default to
feeds2.feedburner.com/<blog> and my 31 left behind seem to getting
feed again (i know cause i've subscribed to the old feed to see what
is going on, and i received the new content). The question to the rest
of the group is.. "Will these subs be added to the feedburner's
overall stats"?

3. What is the difference between <feeds> and
<feeds2> .feedburner.com ? Which one should be used? I publish
feeds2.feedburner.com/<blog> (which as i recall was suggested by
google) but when i visit my account on google/feedburner i see
feed.feedburner.com/<blog> as Feed Address. Should I change everything
to feed.feedburner.com/<blog>?

I started having these hunting thoughts as soon as i moved to a
wordpress platform...

Thank you all, I appreciate your feedback.

dotdorsner

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Jul 3, 2009, 2:21:00 PM7/3/09
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I just found an old thread with this exact issue, but no answer..
http://groups.google.com/group/feeds-and-syndication/browse_frm/thread/c2931e609fcee554?hl=en&tvc=1&q=moved+blogger+wordpress+lost+feed+subscribers

Anyone have any help!?

thx magreb, i've already tried those things.

Bro Porter

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Jul 4, 2009, 9:33:59 AM7/4/09
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see if any of this helps; I have never used Blogger, so don't know if
it actually still works. But from this post, it seems that it has
helped some:

http://groups.google.com/group/feeds-and-syndication/browse_frm/thread/e1f2a5f9e14d3141/78416487156a7f4d?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=which+feed+to+use+for+feedburner#78416487156a7f4d



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