RSS Feed enables blogs or websites to subscribe visitors, so they will get regular updates without visiting or checking blogs. This will definitely increase the blog exposure and visitors to your blog. I strongly recommend adding an RSS feed to your blog on the very first day of blog creation.
Feed burner is one of the best free RSS feed tool, that keep track of your feeds. Now I will show you how to redirect WordPress default RSS Feeds to Feedburner.
Redirecting WordPress RSS Feeds to Feedburner Without Using Plugin
After signing up with feed service, you must redirect the user to a new feed address. You can use Feedburner Feedsmith WordPress plugin, but it’s not so effective.
One of the best way to redirect your default WordPress feed is by editing .htaccess file in your blog. Before editing this file takes a backup of this file.
Add the following code and replace the feed address with yours.
# redirect wordpress feeds to feedburner
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedValidator [NC]
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ http://feedproxy.google.com/Shouttoworld [R=302,NC,L]
</IfModule>
This is a very effective method, now I am using on my blog to redirect default feeds to Feedburner.
I think this post will help you and don’t forget to Subscribe to Shouttoworld Feeds.