Feedburner to Google - MyBrand and 404s

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Its been a while since Google allowed AdSense ads in feeds served by its Feedburner service, but to get those ads served the publishers had to move their feeds over to Google’s setup. Now Google is asking everyone to move their feeds from Feedburner to Google Accounts - the last date being given is 27th Feb. 2009 when all feeds will be moved whether a publisher wants it or not.

So thinking that, I also moved feeds of all my blogs yesterday. Since I use the MyBrand feature of Feedburner, which shows my domain name as feed URL instead of Feedburner’s domain, I thought that the process would be smooth & without any hiccups. I changed the CNAME DNS records for all the domains as advised on the MyBrand settings page but voila - all my feed URLs started giving out 404 errors.

I did a little bit of search and found out on Known Issues page in Feedburner Google Group that there appears to be a screwup in Google’s system. If one was already using MyBrand when they had their account migrated from Feedburner to Google, the MyBrand URLs will probably give 404 error. To rectify this, one needs to deactivate the MyBrand after migration (& after getting all ok thumbs up from Google regarding migration) and then activate it again & add all the domains back.

And yes, this trick works as all the MyBrand feed URLs of my blogs started working normally after this deactivation & activation! You might feel like saying WTF but seems someone goofed up at Google, eh!