Fixing Google Redirect Links in RSS Feed

by Sammy Russo on November 2, 2009

My friend, Internet Strategist @GrowMap, emailed me about how all her CommentLuv links were pointing to a feedburner redirect link. She wanted to know if I could tell her why the links were pointing to a Google redirect URL.  I initially thought it had something to do with the CommentLuv plugin but I dug in a little to find her an answer and it actually turns out it has nothing to do with the CommentLu, but everything to do with a setting in Feedburner.

Not having used CommentLuv, I installed the plugin here on Search Friendly Web Design and on another blog. Turns out that the links get hijacked by Google if you have a certain setting enabled in your Feedburner account . To fix it you have to turn off the Feedburner Redirect link  by unchecking the ‘Item Link Clicks’ setting of the Feedburner Stats menu. You can find this under the analyze tab.


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