Disable the Feedburner Redirect

Feedburner displayed a redirection link to my article instead of the direct link to the article on my blog. In case you are wondering: Feedburner is a service that blog owners can use to distribute their feed, get statistics and ensure maximum compatibility with most feedreaders out there.

Essentially, every link in my feed that pointed to my blog was a Feedburner redirect in the form of http://feeds.ghacks.net/~r/Ghacksnet/~3/172961335/ which did not look that nicely. I did find out that it had something to do with tracking the clicks of the subscribers to be able to compile better statistics. This is something that I did not need and I decided to take a look and see if it was possible to disable the redirect.

It took a while until I found the setting that was responsible for this behavior. If you want to disable it you have to go into the Analyze tab of your feedburner account, click on the ‘Dare to be different?’ link under Site Stats and uncheck ‘Item Link Clicks’ there.

The redirection links will disappear immediately afterwards.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Tuesday October 23, 2007 -
Tags:blogs, feedburner, feedburner redirect, feeds

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1. Tarik says:

   November 17, 2009 at 8:14 pm

   Thanks for this. I just received a deep backlink from Money.Aol.com!!!! When I check the article, it’s got all this Feedburner junk that’s stealing my backlinks. Oh well, everything is fixed now. Thanks for this!!!

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2. kirk forney for anything4lessonline says:

   November 24, 2009 at 5:27 am

   I believe this is necessary to help distribute and direct traffic to your blog oe site. It also gets you readership.

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